Ian McDougall is well known in Canada and internationally as a trombonist, composer, arranger, and educator. He was born in Calgary and has lived in Vancouver, London, England, Toronto, and Victoria. He was lead and solo trombone with Rob McConnell's Juno and Grammy- winning Boss Brass for 20 years, and since moving back to the west coast, has produced over 6 CDs as a leader, featuring a duo, quartet, quintet, sextet, 12-tet, and big band . He is Professor Emeritus of the University of Victoria, where he received a distinguished alumni award in 2004. In 2008, he was honoured to receive the Order of Canada. He writes music not only in the jazz genre, but also classical, and his works have been performed by the Vancouver Symphony, the CBC Chamber orchestra, Ottawa's Thirteen Strings, the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Lafayette Quartet, the Phoenix Choir, the Boss Brass, the BBC Big Band, and many others. Awards have included Best Big Band at the National Jazz awards, the SOCAN established composer award, a Juno award for his writing and leading of the Brass Connection in 1982, along with many Juno nominations.