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KRIS TINER is a trumpet artist, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 25 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” His music has been performed on five continents, his 100+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has performance credits on MTV, NBC, PBS, and Comedy Central. Tiner has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, KCMEA, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. In 2023 he was recognized by the California Music Educators Association as the statewide jazz educator of the year. Tiner has toured widely as a member of the Empty Cage Quartet with recordings on Portugal’s Clean Feed label, and he collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag. He also performs with the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Psychic Temple, the Industrial Jazz Group, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kraig Grady, Nels Cline, Joe La Barbera, Lukas Ligeti, Charles Gaines, Lisa Mezzacappa, Jeff Parker, Sara Schoenbeck, Jeff Coffin, and many others. Tiner is Professor of Music at Bakersfield College, where he directs the DownBeat award winning Jazz Studies program. He has also taught at California Institute of the Arts and CSU Bakersfield. He holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from CalArts, where his teachers included Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Edward Carroll, and Charlie Haden. Tiner has been a visiting lecturer and performer at Durham University, Bennington College, The Art Institute of Seattle, Northwestern University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and many other institutions throughout the United States and Europe, and he has presented at conferences of the International Society for Improvised Music, the California Art Education Association, and the Music Association of California Community Colleges. He contributed a chapter on the history and practice of systemic music to ‘The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts’, an anthology of writings published by Bloomsbury Academic. Tiner is a board member of the California Alliance for Jazz and the Bakersfield Jazz Workshop, and he has organized a successful series of concerts and multimedia performances in the emerging Downtown Arts District of Bakersfield for many years. He is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to the documentation of new creative music recorded in Bakersfield.
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KRIS TINER is a trumpet artist, composer, and educator active on the West Coast jazz and creative music scene for over 25 years. His playing has been described as “extraordinarily inventive” in Signal to Noise Magazine, “perfectly suited to the moment” in DownBeat, and the LA Weekly states that “trumpeter Kris Tiner can turn barbed wire to beauty.” His music has been performed on five continents, his 100+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has performance credits on MTV, NBC, PBS, and Comedy Central. Tiner has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, KCMEA, and the Levan Center for the Humanities. In 2023 he was recognized by the California Music Educators Association as the statewide jazz educator of the year. Tiner has toured widely as a member of the Empty Cage Quartet with recordings on Portugal’s Clean Feed label, and he collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag. He also performs with the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Psychic Temple, the Industrial Jazz Group, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with Wadada Leo Smith, Vinny Golia, Tatsuya Nakatani, Nels Cline, Joe La Barbera, Lukas Ligeti, Lisa Mezzacappa, and many others. Tiner is Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College, and has also taught at California Institute of the Arts and CSU Bakersfield. He holds an MFA in African-American Improvisational Music from CalArts, where his teachers included Wadada Leo Smith, Leroy Jenkins, Edward Carroll, and Charlie Haden. Tiner is a board member of the California Alliance for Jazz and the Bakersfield Jazz Workshop. He is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to the documentation of new creative music recorded in Bakersfield.
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KRIS TINER is a California-based trumpet artist, composer, and educator. His music has been performed on five continents, his 100+ recordings have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has performance credits on MTV, NBC, PBS and Comedy Central. Tiner has received awards from ASCAP, the American Composers Forum, Chamber Music America, Montalvo Arts Center, and in 2023 was recognized as the CMEA statewide jazz educator of the year. He is a member of the Empty Cage Quartet with recordings on Portugal’s Clean Feed label, and he collaborates with guitarist Mike Baggetta in the duo Tin/Bag. Tiner also performs with the Cathlene Pineda Quartet, Psychic Temple, the Industrial Jazz Group, and the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College, and has also taught at CalArts and CSU Bakersfield. Tiner is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to new creative music recorded in Bakersfield.
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KRIS TINER is a California-based trumpet artist, composer, and educator. His music has been performed on five continents, his 100+ recordings with the Empty Cage Quartet, Tin/Bag, Cathlene Pineda, Psychic Temple, The Industrial Jazz Group and others have been enthusiastically reviewed in the international jazz press, and he has performance credits on MTV, NBC, PBS and Comedy Central. He is the Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College, and has also taught at CalArts and CSU Bakersfield. Tiner is the founder of Epigraph Records, an independent label dedicated to new creative music recorded in Bakersfield.
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KRIS TINER is a California-based trumpet artist and composer, founder of the Epigraph Records label, and Director of Jazz Studies at Bakersfield College.
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