Dave Thompson

I didn’t like piano lessons and preferred hockey. So my mom eventually got me guitar lessons at a local music store that shuttered a few months later. But I’d practiced hard all summer so Mark and Jeff and I started our rock band “Onyx” and took over the world. In the meantime, I took lessons with Bob McFee and Tibor Puskas, played in various freelance situations, studied harmony and arranging with Jim Howard, and went to Berklee in Boston where I got a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition under Herb Pomeroy, Ken Pullig, Hal Crook etc.

Over the years I’ve played many gigs, on records, in theatre shows, TV, radio... Lately I’ve been with the Stratford Festival and Drayton Theatre, and toured a lot in the past with Juno-winners Kellylee Evans (we opened for George Benson, Richard Bona, and Chris Botti) and Susan Aglukark.