Artist Residency- Centro Rural de Arte, Patagonia, Argentina
May 2010
INDIGENOUS AND ALIEN
Three week international artist residency in collaboration with visual artist, Nadine Bariteau. Site specific work using found objects and sounds plus live experimental voice work. Audio sampling, editing, projection using plastic megaphone sculptures made from discarded water bottles.
Artist Residency- 360 Xochi Quetzal, Chapala, Mexico
May 2015
Month-long international residency- topics covered included songwriting, audio sampling and montage, poetry-writing, collaboration with local musicians and other artists, organized concert and exhibition.
Artist Residency- Skalar Sound Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
May 2016
Time Sense
Month-long collaborative residency with DJ/electronic sound designer, Marie-Hélène Brousseau in Iceland. Topics included research-related excursions, text-writing, field recordings, audio montage, composition and pre-production for an album.
Sound and Movement workshop with Susanna Hood, Montreal
November 2019
Open Source Forms - Improvisation structures using movement, voice, drawing and writing.
Teaching techniques
Having written, recorded and performed my own music professionally for over twenty years, with six albums of original music as a leader in both folk/contemporary and jazz styles to my name, I feel I am able to bring a very wide range of knowledge to students of varying backgrounds, ages and interests. I was also trained in extended vocal techniques under the tutelage of Toronto-based vocalist, Christine Duncan and over the past decade or so have performed and recorded experimental music of this genre in many select settings.
My approach to teaching, (which has developed extensively over nearly 15 years of teaching jazz voice, jazz and popular music ensembles, songwriting and business of music classes and ear training labs at 5 different post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Ontario and Québec collectively) is to guide a student in various conventional and sometimes non-conventional directions for the purpose of achieving the greatest amount of musical success on all pertinent levels. At the same time, I also strive to embrace what each student expresses as a need or desire in the areas of their own music-making. In doing so, I am able to work in tandem with that student with the hope of nourishing their artistic growth while achieving a high level of respect, balance and understanding for one another in the lesson setting. Je parle aussi le français et par le passé j'ai eu pleins d'élèves Francophones! J'aime beaucoup m'exprimer dans cette langue et j'ai beaucoup de respect et intérêt pour la musique francophone.
Artist Residency- Centro Rural de Arte, Patagonia, Argentina
May 2010
INDIGENOUS AND ALIEN
Three week international artist residency in collaboration with visual artist, Nadine Bariteau. Site specific work using found objects and sounds plus live experimental voice work. Audio sampling, editing, projection using plastic megaphone sculptures made from discarded water bottles.
Artist Residency- 360 Xochi Quetzal, Chapala, Mexico
May 2015
Month-long international residency- topics covered included songwriting, audio sampling and montage, poetry-writing, collaboration with local musicians and other artists, organized concert and exhibition.
Artist Residency- Skalar Sound Art, Seydisfjordur, Iceland
May 2016
Time Sense
Month-long collaborative residency with DJ/electronic sound designer, Marie-Hélène Brousseau in Iceland. Topics included research-related excursions, text-writing, field recordings, audio montage, composition and pre-production for an album.
Sound and Movement workshop with Susanna Hood, Montreal
November 2019
Open Source Forms - Improvisation structures using movement, voice, drawing and writing.
Notable Past and Future Performances
July 22/23rd, 2023
Music By the Sea Festival
Bamfield, BC and Victoria, BC
Duo with Bill Coon and other artists
February 4th, 2023
Shadbolt Center for the Arts
Jazz@theBolt Series
Vancouver, BC
Duo with guitarist, Bill Coon
October, 2020
Off Festival de Jazz, Montreal, QC
"Carte Blanche" with Dottir et amies.
July, 2019
Festival de Lanaudière, Lanaudière, QC
L'Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal
"Under the Influence Suite", Composer and Conductor, Christine Jensen
August, 2019
Théatre de Verdure, Montréal, QC
L'Orchestre national de jazz de Montréal
"Under the Influence Suite", Composer and Conductor, Christine Jensen
August, 2019
Rimouski Jazz Festival, duo with François Jalbert
July, 2019
"Sleeping Rough" a modern opera, marionette and theatre piece performed in Ottawa at the Great Canadian Theatre.
