Eli Bennett

Thirty-five-time internationally award-winning jazz saxophonist and four-time Leo-Nominated film composer Eli Bennett has performed twice at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles and shared the stage with the likes of Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Barry Harris, Terence Blanchard, and Dave Holland. He is a two-time-recipient of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award from the National Jazz Awards and the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, was awarded the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for music in 2012, is a D’Addario Woodwinds Artist, a Selmer-Paris Endorsing Artist, an AMT Endorsing Artist, a Yamaha Young Performing Artist, and in 2013 was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Premier of BC. Bennett’s debut album, "BREAKTHROUGH" has received extensive international attention, ranking #3 on the Canadian National Jazz Charts, and #14 on the US CMJ National Jazz Charts, while being featured on the homepage of iTunes Canada Jazz for two months as one of the top Canadian jazz albums. Breakthrough was also named the “#4 Best Jazz Debut Album” by the Ottawa Citizen and received rave reviews from All About Jazz and WholeNote Magazine in addition to receiving major radio play in North America and Europe. In 2015, Breakthrough won the Julian Jazz Award from BC’s CJSF 90.1FM for ‘Best Canadian Jazz Album by an Emerging Artist’ as well as a 2015 Western Canadian Music Award Nomination for ‘Jazz Recording of the Year’. The Official Facebook Page for 35x award-winning jazz saxophonist and 4x Leo-nominated film composer ELI BENNETT https://song.link/elibennett