Glen Alan is a professional musician, songwriter, producer and founder of Find A Way which is a Toronto based music school, recording studio, music store and event service provider. Glen has been an active as both a musician and educator in the Toronto scene for over 10 years. He has been featured on CBC Radio, City TV and has performed at Sky Dome, The Toronto Center for the Performing Arts and Markham Theatre. Find A Way was founded in 1996 and is a member of Green Enterprise Toronto, The Danforth BNI Chapter and is participating merchant of the Toronto Dollar Program.
By Glen Alan
Published on 03/22/2010
Ryan
Brouwer is now accepting new trumpet and guitar students at our school.
Ryan is
a recent graduate of the University
of Toronto Music Program
and we are pleased to have him join the our team. We'll be soon adding
his bio
and samples of his music to the school section of the Find A Way
website but for now here is a
little more information on Ryan:
Ryan
Brouwer grew up in Anola Manitoba, a
small
town outside of Winnipeg.
He has studied classical music for many years and completed his
Undergraduate
degree at the University
of Toronto in jazz
performance in May of 2010.
Since
moving to Toronto in 2005, Ryan has had
the
opportunity to work with some of Canada's finest musicians
and
educators including Jim Lewis, Chase Sanborn, Gillian Mackay, Dave
Neill, Terry
Promane and Paul Read. He has performed with many different ensembles
including
the U of T 11 and 10 o'clock jazz orchestras, the Toronto Symphony Youth
Orchestra, the University
of Toronto Symphony Orchestra
and continues to write and perform music with his own groups. Ryan is
also a
multi-instrumentalist and composer with a strong background in trumpet,
guitar,
voice, piano and composition. Ryan teaches individual lessons in
trumpet,
guitar and composition for Find
A
Way.