Saxophonist Monik Nordine has received several prestigious arts awards and is the saxophone player for sitarist Mungal Patasar and Pantar in Trinidad.  She appears on the Juno Award nominated album Cruel Yet Fair (1997) with John Korsrud’s Hard Rubber Orchestra and has toured with Hugh Fraser’s band  VEJI.  In 2021 Monik completed a residency to study with Ann-Sofi Söderqvist in Stockholm, Sweden with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council.  In 2016 she was commissioned by Vancouver Island University to compose for the VIU Jazz Ensemble

 

As the director of The Victoria Jazz Orchestra she has led the ensemble in the Victoria and Nanaimo International Jazz Festivals and performed with the Mingus Dynasty Band and pianist Dave Kikosky.  She has also shared the stage with award-winning musicians such as Ian McDougall, Guido Basso, Matt Catingub, David Foster, Campbell Ryga, PJ Perry, Michael Buble, Rob McConnell, Tommy Banks, and Brad Turner and has toured Canada performing in the Montreal, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, and Medicine Hat jazz festivals with The Monik Nordine Trio/Quartet and with Canadian greats, guitarist Pat Coleman and saxophonist Mike Allen.  Monik holds a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance and Composition from McGill University and  has studied privately in London (UK), Stockholm (Sweden) and New York (NY)

 

Having recorded four albums as a leader: Live in Stockholm (2021), The Old-New Town (2017), Departure (2010), and Not Just To But Over the Moon (1998), Monik is the sole agent for Magenta Music Publishing which holds the rights to her music.

 

Monik is an artist of Swedish and Roma ancestry.  To read the English translation of the book Roma History and Cultural Heritage in Sweden (Åkerfeldt, Bennie; Förlags Tryckeriet Vitterleken; 2018) you can follow her on Patreon