Paul Tynan

The Bicoastal Collective, that I co-lead with Aaron Lington is headlining the Antigonish Jazz on Nov 5. Great band too. Paul Rushka on Bass, Kevin Brunkhorst on Guitar and Anthony Michelli on drums. The St.FX Faculty band is playing on PEI on Nov 21. Two shows. Holland College and UPEI. Tracking my new album at the end of January. All the music is based on amazing times in Mongolia! Tracking Joe Abbas new project in NYC in Feb. We got a few shows too, including one at Smalls. and then Im back to Mongolia for a run of gigs at FatCat and a bunch of teaching at the Mongolian State Conservatory.

fun incoming!

Sept 24 – With Mike Murley (ten) + St. FX Faculty. Antigonish, NS.

Sept 26 – Paul Tynan Quartet, RK MacDonald Home, Antigonish, NS.

Oct 14 – Teaching tpt lessons and giving a composition master class at the Mongolian State Conservatory. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Oct 14 – 17 – Paul Tynan Quartet, The Fat Cat. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Killer band and new music too.

• Martin Zenker – Bs
• Lucas Fixel – Drs
• Misheel – Pno
• + Special guests through out the week

Nov 5 – Bicoastal Collective at the Antigonish Jazz Festival. Antigonish, NS.

Nov 9 – With David Braid (piano) + Stfx Faculty. Antigonish, NS.

I’ll be brings my quartet to the Port Bickerton Arts Festival on August 22, 2026, 5pm.

Featuring Kevin Brunkhorst (Guitar), Lior Wainshtein (Bass) and Mark Adam (Drums), we’ll be playing some original music and a curated selections on standards.

Headed to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia this summer!

June 5 – Concert with the Bayan Mongol Big Band. They’ll be playing a new arrangement I wrote for them with some of my other compositions for big band. Location/Time TBA.

July 1 – Paul Tynan quartet. The Fat Cat Ulaanbattar, Mongolia. With Matrin Zenker (Bass), Bondoo (Drums), and Filip Baader (pno)

July 5-12 – I’ll be at the IASJ conference as the North American Rep. Lots of concerts, hangs, fun!

Hello, 2026 – nice to meet you.

I have some cool events coming up in early 2026.

January 12, St. FX is hosting Jorge Rossy – playing drums and vibes. I’m quite excited and have been checking out his recordings ever since I learned about the Brad Mehldau trio back in the day. I’ll be in the house band for that, along with a fair amount of the other faculty.

February 15, I’ll be playing in New Delhi, India at The Piano Man – Eldeco Center with Arjun Sagar Gupta’s band.

February 16, Playing Duo with Siddharth Gautam on Guitar at The Piano Man – Safdarjung, also in New Delhi, India.

February 18, I’ll be at the Global Music Institute in Greater Noida, India, for a workshop with their students. I’ll have a great trio with me of  Tanisha Bhatnager on bass, Lucas Fixel on drums, and Siddharth Gautam on guitar.

This fall has been a good one for road gigs.

September 4, 2025 – Island Jazz, with my Trio, Charlottetown, PEI.

September 25, 2025 – Cape Breton Jazz Festival with the East Coast Jazz All Stars, Syndey Nova Scotia.

I’m headed to Europe to play in David Braid’s band.

October 8, 2025 – Underground, Lund, Sweden

October 10-11, – Jeppis Jazz Festival, Jacobstad, Finland

We’re playing David’s Melodic Archetypes, a suite for small ensemble, on all the shows. It’s a gorgeous piece. Lush harmony and songlike melodies. This’ll be fun! At the Jeppis festival, Canadian Saxophone wizard Mark Dejong and I will also be hosting one of the Jam sessions. This’ll be fun!

I’m really looking forward to going back to Nepal where I’ll be spending a few months writing music, playing music, checking out as much stuff as I can and spending some time in residence at the Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory. 

A few years ago Jake Hanlon and I were invited to perform at the Jazzmandu festival and I was really taken in by the City and the people. It’s totally magical. Big thanks to Arts NS and St.FX for the support to make this a reality. I’ll be posting adventure pics on the socials.  Charge!  

Man, I am excited for ya’ll to hear this! The fine folks at Champion Version in the UK reached out to see if I’d be interested in releasing a project with them and boy howdy I sure was! It a duo with Adrean Farrugia on piano. It was beautifully recorded by Anthony Michelli in rural Nova Scotia.

It’ll be released digitally and in a limited edition 7-inch lathe-cut vinyl

Huge congratz to my coconspirators: Aaron Lington – Bari, Trifon Dimitrov – Bass and Joe Abba -Drums!!

Found out today that Bicoastal Collective chapter 6 was nominated for an ECMA Jazz recording of the year!

Full nominations list right here, folks!

Also, in the good news department, take affect just published a really great review of Bicoastal Collective, chapter 6

Read it here!! 9/10!