Amanda Tosoff is a Canadian jazz pianist, composer, & educator. With Amanda’s sixth release as a leader, Earth Voices, she continues to pursue the creative and stylistic leap she began on her JUNO-nominated album Words, once again drawing on poetry with a deep personal and emotional connection. Along with strings and guest saxophonists Allison Au and Kelly Jefferson, she invites Alex Goodman, one of New York’s most vital young guitarists, to work wonders and broaden her ensemble texture. She also enlists a sterling and versatile cast of singers — Emilie-Claire Barlow, Robin Dann, Michelle Willis, Alex Samaras, Laila Biali, Lydia Persaud and Felicity Williams — to give new life to words by Edgar Allan-Poe, Pablo Neruda, Rumi, and Walt Whitman, among inventive arrangements of songs by Joni Mitchell, Luciana Souza, Chris Thile and Mike Ross of Soulpepper Theatre. With an honest, genuine and giving spirit, Tosoff stands poised to share with the world the next stages in her evolution.