GAL GEORGE GJURIN, 1978, Oshawa/Toronto, ON, 25-year professional vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, producer, composer, arranger, independent publisher, poet. He’s released 24 albums with original music, always supported by extensive touring (festivals, theatres, sports/music halls etc.). He has presented his originals LIVE in the U.S., Canada, France, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Ireland, Slovakia, Iceland, Croatia, Germany etc.

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Recent accolades:
– national CFMA 2025 nominee for Best Producer/Album Of The Year 2025 – Canadian Folk Music Awards 2025 (Ottawa, ON, Canada),

– Best Performing Artist of the Year 2025 nominee at the national FOLK CANADA (FMO - Folk Music Ontario) 2025 (Ottawa, ON, Canada)

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– Winner of 3 Toronto GTA’s OMA Music Awards 2021 & 2022 (1x Best Music Video of the Year, 2x Best song of the Year),

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– 2 notable nominations at Toronto GTA’s 2025 DREAMS! Music Awards - Durham Excellence in Arts, Music & Sound (Producer of the Year 2025, Best Music Video of the year 2025)

– 5 Toronto GTA’s OMA Music Awards notable nominations, including Artist of the Year 2023, Songwriter of the Year 2023 and Producer of the Year 2023 among others,

– Two-time semi-finalist in Nashville, TN, USA, at the world’s largest songwriting competition at International Songwriters Competition ISC 2020 & ISC 2021 (reaching top 50 among 25.000 songwriters). ISC competition in Nashville has the most prestigious panel of judges of all the songwriting and music contests in the world, offering exposure and the opportunity to have your songs heard by the most influential decision-makers in the music industry.

One of his outstanding touring achievements was a 2-year Cantabile European tour (2013–2015) with a full 86-piece symphonic orchestra, for which he’d written 5.500 pages of symphonic scores.

 

In addition to top-tier critically acclaimed songwriting and his 3 octave active vocal range Gal plays over 50 instruments (all keys, guitars and guitar-like instruments, brass, strings, woodwinds, drums & percussive instruments and various folk & ethno world music instruments + orchestral composing/conducting and arranging (symphonic, big-band, choirs, jazz combo etc.).

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His musical vocabulary is broad: folk, roots, jazz, blues, rock, classical, country/bluegrass, pop, Americana, world-music etc.). He usually tours with his 5–10 piece band. His poetry has been translated into 7 languages and is found in various notable poetry anthologies.

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On his colorful 25-year professional musical journey he has worked with a wide array of artists from different walks of life such as Reggie Workman (USA, John Coltrane Quartet/Art Blakey, double bass), Allan Taylor (U.K., singer-songwriter), Mary Coughlan (Ireland, singer-songwriter), Rade Serbedzija (Croatia/USA, actor, singer), Frode Barth (Norway, Chet Baker Quartet, guitarist), Oana Avasilichioaei (Canada, poetry/literature), Sigurður Guðmundsson (Iceland, singer-songwriter, producer), Kate Hosking (Australia, bassist), Kemal Monteno (Bosnia-Herzegovina, singer-songwriter), Sekou Kouyate (Guinea–West Africa, African kora harp), Adam Bicskey (Hungary, Hungarian hammered dulcimer), Hans Theessnick (Netherlands, guitars), Boris Pahor (Italy/Slovenia, prose writer), African Isingizi vocal group (Zimbabwe, vocals), Nicholaus Herdieckerhoff (Germany, experimental cellist), Istvan Grencso (Hungary, saxophones, flutes), Ian Sheppard (U.K., sound & mastering engineer), Mike Little (Canada, B. B. King, Dwight Yoakam, The Hello Darlings, Hammond organ & keys), Veronica Charnley (Canada/France, singer-songwriter), Aleksander Mežek - Alexander John (Slovenia/U.K., singer-songwriter), Will Gillespie (Canada, singer-songwriter), Dave Chester (Canada, RUSH music producer) and many others.