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Distillery Music School
The Distillery Music School (DMS) celebrates the potential of music to enrich the artistic, intellectual and emotional lives of our diverse student community. Named after the iconic area in downtown Toronto.
Our students benefit from special events such as recitals, jam sessions and other gatherings that enhance the learning process, provide performing opportunities and create a platform to meet and interact with other musicians.
Our teachers are active musicians who perform, compose and collaborate. They teach from experience and wisdom, by skillfully combining the technical with the practical. All of our teaching community welcome students at all skill levels and ages.
Dr. Daniel Rubinoff
Music Director
Dr. Daniel Rubinoff has performed as a saxophonist soloist and chamber musician in France, Canada and the United States. His discography includes The Old Castle, Daniel Rubinoff Plays the Music of Srul Glick, The Canada Song, The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, and Daniel Rubinoff Plays
Denis Bédard. His recordings are broadcast on CBC and have received favourable reviews on
CBC Radio and in the American Record Guide. He has appeared on the cover of the
International Saxophone Journal with a feature article on his career.
He has performed numerous saxophone recitals with some of Canada’s finest musicians:
Sax n' Ivory, with concert pianist Gloria Saarinen; The Dance of the Blessed Spirits, with
organist Chris Dawes; Classical Meets Jazz, with pianist David Braid; SaxAccord, with
accordionist Joe Macerollo; and Music Old And New, with harpsichordist Paul Jenkins of the
Toronto Consort.
Rubinoff is an Artist-Representative for the Selmer Saxophone Company of
America, and has adjudicated wind examinations for the University of Toronto’s Faculty of
Music. He holds a PhD in Musicology from York University where he studied Dalcroze
Eurhythmics. Rubinoff is in demand as a music festival adjudicator, lecturer and coach. In 2016,
he was appointed Director of Music at Jubilee United Church in Toronto.
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