JONATHAN MCCASLIN (Drums) Raised in Regina, Jonathan's interest in music led him to enroll in the Jazz Studies program at McGill University, graduating in 1999. While at McGill, Jonathan had the opportunity to study with including Gordon Foote, Kevin Dean, Jan Jarcyzk, Joe Sullivan, Remi Bolduc, Chris McCann, Andre White, Michel Lambert, and Dave Laing.

Jonathan attended the Banff Centre for the Arts in 1997, where he performed with Hugh Fraser, Don Thompson and Kenny Wheeler. In the spring of 2002, McCaslin completed his Master's in Jazz Studies at McGill University where he studied jazz drumming, improvisation and composition.

In 2012 he released his album Sunalta on the Cellar Live jazz record label featuring Brad Turner, Phil Dwyer, Tilden Webb and Jodi Proznick. As a busy sideman, he has performed with such artists as Mulgrew Miller, Peter Bernstein, Ralph Bowen, Hendrik Meurkens, Sean Jones, PJ Perry, Charlie Biddle, Kelly Jefferson, Ian McDougall, Jeff Johnston, Lorraine Desmerais, Chucho Valdes, Uri Caine, Peter Apfelbaum, Wycliffe Gordon, Linda Oh, and Pat LaBarbera.

McCaslin is a Doctoral Candidate through the University of Toronto and is completing his dissertation on the conceptualization of contemporary melodic jazz drumming.