Gordon Foote is currently associate dean, performance & public events, and professor of jazz in the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. Under the direction of Professor Foote, the UTJO has released two CD’s, one entitled Reflections, featuring Mike Murley and more recently, Sweet Ruby Suite features long-time Wheeler collaborator, vocalist Norma Winstone, along with special guest artist David Liebman on soprano saxophone. Before moving to Toronto in 2012, Foote spent 26 years as a professor in the Jazz Studies Program at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec. He was also a professor for six years at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Foote is one of the pioneers of jazz education in Canada, developing the first undergraduate and graduate jazz degree programs in Canada. His ensembles are internationally recognized and have been featured throughout the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, England, Ireland and Mexico. Gordon is a Conn-Selmer artist and clinician.