Cameron is an accomplished composer having written hundreds of original pieces of music for all types of ensembles in all styles of music. His unique compositional style is a blend of straight ahead jazz, pop and eastern European folk melodies. Cameron's recent compositional focus has been writing for symphony orchestra featuring his quartet as soloists and for 6 horn chamber jazz ensemble. As an arranger, Cameron has collaborated with francophone rock legend Jean Leloup, Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble, Sophie Milman, and various Montreal based groups including Karine Chapdelaine and the Sketches, Lampshade, and Oscar Martinez’s Kohiba Project.

The Johnny Mercer/Harold Arlen classic “Come Rain or Come Shine”, is arranged by Cameron [Wallis] with the opening bars plucked pizzicato by the strings and piano and develops a novel percussive personality until Melissa settles it into the familiar pleasures of the lyric song. You can feel that this blend of old and new is a success when the piece ends: the whole room comes to rest in a prolonged silence, the musicians grin at each other, and the applause bursts out.

Stanley Fefferman
The Live Music Report - click here for full review

Audio Samples:

Mile by Mile from OneUpOneDown’s debut release Prefacedownload leadsheet
Trinkle Tinkle arrangement for chamber jazz ensemble – download score
Preface for symphony orchestra and jazz quartet – download score
Politirx for jazz quartet – download leadsheet

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