With performance credits ranging from orchestral soloist to jazz session player, Toronto bassist and international touring artist Jesse Dietschi is a truly versatile musician and composer equally experienced in jazz, classical, and popular music. He has been a featured soloist with orchestras in both Ontario and the US, and leads both his own jazz trio and chamber jazz group the Catalyst Ensemble. Serving as the Principal Bassist of Sinfonia Toronto, he holds an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Orchestral Performance and Masters degrees in both Jazz Performance (U of Toronto) and Composition (Brandon University). Jesse has toured internationally with groups ranging from modern jazz outfits Tunnel Six and the Nick Maclean Quartet to Canadian Tenors’ star Ken Lavigne. Other performing and recording credits include the Canadian Opera Company, the Niagara Symphony, The Headstones, and TV shows Murdoch Mysteries and Hannibal.