Aline Homzy est une violoniste et compositrice primée. Reconnue comme l’une des meilleures violonistes de jazz au Canada, elle a joué et/ou enregistré avec Danilo Perez, Munir Hossn et The Weather Station. Sa musique a été interprétée par le Toronto Symphony Orchestra, le guitariste suédois Mikko Hilden et le bassiste sud-coréen Yongwon Cho. Homzy est également une bâtisseure de communauté, mettant l’accent sur la mise en valeur des femmes instrumentistes et improvisatrices.

Elle a été récipiendaire d’un prix TD Discovery Projects 2018 qui l’a vue organiser un concert à guichets fermés mettant en vedette des improvisatrices au Canadian Music Centre. Pendant la pandémie, elle a produit le documentaire « Sounds of Davenport » qui visait à mettre en valeur les musiciens de sa communauté à travers un vidéo-concert magnifiquement capté, soutenu par ses représentants politiques. Homzy s’est produit au Festival international de jazz de Toronto TD, au Festival international de jazz de Montréal, au Festival international de jazz de Stockholm et au Festival international de jazz de Daigu en Corée du Sud. Elle a été finaliste du Toronto Emerging Jazz Artist Award 2022 et a reçu une bourse pour participer à la prestigieuse résidence d’artistes Hambidge en Géorgie, aux États-Unis également en 2022.

Aline Homzy is an award-winning violinist and composer. Originally from Montreal, born to a Québécois mom and an American dad with Eastern-European roots, Aline’s original music reflects her culturally-diverse background.

Beyond composing music, Aline is a regular violinist in the studios of Toronto, recording other artists’ original music. Aline is seeked-out for her lightning-fast sight-reading skills, her deep knowledge of jazz and improvisation and her musicality and upbeat personality. Some artists that she has recorded for include David Occhipinti, Andrew Downing, Iskwé, The Weather Station, Amanda Tosoff and many more. She is also the leader of the string section for SymphRONica (2019 Juno-nominated), Maurizio Guarini’s “A Goblin’s Chamber Music”, De Bouche à oreille – série de spectacles francophone, and many other Toronto- based projects that record and perform in the city. Aline has also performed and/ or recorded with international artists such as Munir Hossn (Brazil), Emma Smith (Edinburgh), Jake Sherman (USA), Leah Michelle (USA), Ed Sheeran (Great Britain), Danilo Perez (Panama), Cho Yongwon (South Korea), Mikko Hildèn (Sweden), amongst others. Aline has performed in halls and venues such as Koerner Hall, Massey Hall, The Glenn Gould Studio, the Burdock, the Great Hall, various stages for the TD International Toronto Jazz Festival, Festival international de jazz de Montréal, Stockholm International jazz festival and many chamber-music and jazz-related concert series.

“Aline’s étoile magique” was born when she recognized the stark and low presence of women in the improvised music scene. She gathered some of Toronto’s best musicians including Magdelys Savigne (OKAN), Anh Phung, and Edinburgh’s Emma Smith to each play a set of original music at the Canadian Music Centre. Aline formed her “étoile magique” with thoughts of compassion and musicianship. She chose Michael Davidson on the vibraphone, Thomas Gill on the guitar and Dan Fortin on the bass to perform her music. Aline was awarded the highest points that year for the TD Discovery Projects award.

Aline’s emphasis on community also flourished from this experience. She started to understand how prohibitive the arts are to low-income families and individuals. Part of her priorities in this concert was to make available 5 tickets to low-income people. Another aspect of this project was to highlight how improvising musicians rarely get paid a fair wage for their work. Aline fundraised enough money to pay a good fee to all of the musicians involved and she is extremely proud of this feat. In 2019, Aline initiated and curated a “smashing-hit-of-a-music-series” at Sapori wine bar, highlighting women-instrumentalists and creating fair-pay opportunities for underrepresented musicians in her community.