Caity Gyorgy is a

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winning

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jazz singer from

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. She received the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in

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for her EP, ''Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy,'' and in

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for her debut LP, ''Featuring.'' She is a graduate of the music program at

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and received her Masters of Music in jazz performance at

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. She released both her debut album ''No Bounds'' and the EP ''Now Pronouncing'' in 2021. Gyorgy has performed at the

Toronto Jazz Festival The Toronto Jazz Festival is a jazz event in Toronto which takes place for 10 days in late June through early July. Unlike the Beaches International Jazz Festival, most of the events are indoors and located throughout the downtown core. The hub of t ...

and the

Jazz Festival. She has also performed alongside artists such as

Allison Au Allison Au is a Canadian jazz saxophonist. She has been nominated twice for a Juno Award for best jazz album, winning once. Career Au was born to a Chinese father and a Jewish mother; her maternal grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Au grew up ...

Jocelyn Gould Jocelyn Gould is a Canadian jazz guitarist. Her album, ''Elegant Traveler'' was awarded the 2021 Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year - Solo. She is also the 1st place winner of the 2018 Wilson Centre International Jazz Guitar competition. Sh ...

, and

Pat LaBarbera Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (born April 7, 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands fr ...

Biography

Gyorgy was born in

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. In 2022, Gyorgy received her Masters of Music in jazz performance from McGill University under the tutelage of Christine Jensen.

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* 21st-century Canadian women singers Canadian women jazz singers Musicians from Calgary Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year winners Living people 1998 births {{Canada-singer-stub