Brian Dickinson was born in 1961 in Guelph, Ontario, and is a Canadian jazz musician, pianist, arranger, and composer. He grew up in Stratford, Ontario, and moved to Toronto in 1979 to study at Humber College. He later graduated with distinction from the New England Conservatory in Boston. Throughout his career, he collaborated with musicians such as Pat LaBarbera, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, and Maria Schneider. His album In Transition, which won the Juno Award for Best Jazz Album in 1992. Other notable releases include Still Waters (1998) with Kenny Wheeler and Other Places (2012), featuring Jerry Bergonzi. He also authored the book on ear training, The Ears Have Walls. As a university professor, he heads the keyboard instrument department at Humber College in Toronto.
