Performer

Beau Stocker is a drum kit performer, educator and researcher originally from Toronto Ontario, who now resides in Union Bay on Vancouver Island. His studies in music performance include the Humber College and York University Jazz Programs, in Toronto, and also received an MA in Improvised Music/Jazz Performance and PhD by Music Performance at The University of York, England. These experiences involved research travel through the Middle East and East Africa and, while living in Sudan, he studied with percussion experts in Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan and performed in Contemporary Sudanese Music Orchestra Etibr as well as Sudanese Jazz ensemble Blue. As a regularly performing musician and resident of England, he was co-founder of jazz award winning improvising trio Trio VD and studied with improvising musician Mark Sanders and the renowned jazz drummer Martin France. Beau is currently involved in multiple music performance projects on Vancouver Island that span various musical genres as well as push the scope of original music composition in the local music scene community. He regularly hosts and supports local jazz jam sessions and is a long time member of experimental music ensemble Ultraviolet. 

Composition through improvised performance

 

Solo 

 
 
 

Duo

Trio

Ultraviolet

Past Music Performances:

  • Bollywood Jazz Project –  Indo-Jazz music fusion, inspired by the songs and instrumental music of Bollywood films
  • Stocker/Eyes – duo experimental electronic and acoustic instrument ensemble, creation of soundscapes in real time performance
  • Drum Medicine –  collaboration with Indigenous Artist in Residence for Victoria (BC, Canada), Lindsay Deleronde, and Performance Artist Naomi Kennedy
  • Trio VD – experimental music trio based in Yorkshire, England.
  • The Golden Dogs – pop rock band from Toronto, ON Canada.

Musical Theatre Performances:

  • Into The Woods, 2023: Three Legged Dog Productions, Courtenay, BC, Canada.
  • Rocky Horror Picture Show, 2022: Three Legged Dog Productions, Courtenay, BC, Canada.
  • Filberg Summer Series: 3 Unique Shows For You, 2021: Three Legged Dog Productions, Courtenay, BC, Canada
  • Jesus Christ Superstar, 2019: Three Legged Dog Productions, Courtenay, BC, Canada
  • Little Shop of Horrors, 2018: Ryedale Youth Theatre, Malton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
  • Beauty and the Beast, 2017: Ryedale Youth Theatre, Malton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom