Creator ProfileBio Anton Piatigorsky is an award-winning writer of fiction, plays and librettos. As a playwright, Anton is the recipient of two Dora Mavor Moore awards for best new play, the Summerworks Prize and numerous other nominations. Eternal Hydra, commissioned by the Stratford Festival for its 50th anniversary, inaugurated the

Creator ProfileBio Glenn James is a songwriter, composer, and pianist. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of British Columbia. When he's not writing music, he builds things out of wood. He currently lives in Vancouver with his beautiful wife and two clown beagles and is

Creator ProfileBio Brian Current’s music has been broadcast in over 35 countries and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Barlow Prize (USA), a Premio Fedora (Italy), a Jules Léger Prize and a Selected Work (under 30) at the International Rostrum of Composers. In 2016, he won the inaugural Azrieli Commission for

Creator ProfileBio As an award-winning writer, Dave Deveau investigates queer themes that speak to a broad audience. His work has been produced across North America and in Europe. He is the Playwright in Residence for Vancouver’s Zee Zee Theatre, who produced his plays Nelly Boy, Tiny Replicas, the critically-acclaimed My

Creator ProfileBio Born in Canada in 1977, William Rowson holds a Doctor of Music degree in composition from the University of Toronto and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. His composition teachers include Ned Rorem, George Tsontakis, Peter Paul Koprowski and Gary Kulesha. William Rowsons’s works have

Creator ProfileBio Sean Ferguson was born in the remote Northern-Alberta community of Fort Vermilion. He has lived in Montreal since 1990, where he studied composition at McGill University. His fascination with the mechanics of perception have led him to carry out extensive research in psychoacoustics and to incorporate these findings

Creator ProfileBio David Ogborn is an artist programmer and artist researcher, committed to unfolding the potential for algorithms and computation to be sites of play, curiosity, and collaboration. This work takes the form of solo and ensemble performances of live coding and network music, the development of software to be

Creator ProfileBio Anthony Young graduated from the University of Auckland with a Masters Degree in composition in 2004, and has had works performed by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, the Karlheinz Company, The Committee, Gate7, Tapestry New Opera

Creator ProfileBio Bernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast (14.9.42) and lived there until 1975 when he moved to Scotland with his wife, Madeline, and four children. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician, a mature student, a teacher of English and occasionally a Writer-in-Residence (Universities of Aberdeen, Augsburg, Liverpool John

Creator ProfileBio Jeffrey Ryan was almost an accountant. Three months into his first semester at Wilfrid Laurier University, he begged to transfer into the Music Faculty to become a composer. Which, after growing up training his ear with Petula Clark, The Partridge Family, and Captain and Tennille, playing saxophone and

Creator ProfileBio Having started his career as a playwright, Michael MacLennan's first play Beat The Sunset garnered Vancouver's Jessie Richardson Award for outstanding new play, and the Theatrum National Playwriting Award. Grace won the Theatre BC National Playwriting Competition. His next two plays The Shooting Stage and Last Romantics both

Creator ProfileBio Jovanni Sy is a Canadian playwright, actor, and director with Chinese-Filipino ancestry. Sy was born in Manila, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He studied engineering at the University of Toronto before deciding to become an actor, and studied with RH Thomson. For twenty years, he was active

Creator ProfileBio Sheldon Rosen is an Ontario-based playwright — born in the Bronx, New York, August 26, 1943, but grew up in Rochester, New York. He studied at the University of Rochester, and received his B.A. in psychology in 1965. He then took an M.A. in telecommunications and spent several

Creator ProfileBio Ian Cusson is a Canadian composer of art song, opera, and orchestral work. Of Métis (Georgian Bay Métis Community) and French Canadian descent, his work explores the Canadian Indigenous experience, including the history of the Métis people, the hybridity of mixed-racial identity, and the intersection of Western and

Creator ProfileBio John Alcorn is one of Canada’s premiere jazz vocalists, delivering his distinctive renditions of jazz standards on the most prestigious bandstands and concert stages across Canada. His list of citations and acknowledgements in music and theatre includes both Jazz Report (Male Vocalist of the Year) and Dora (Outstanding

Creator ProfileBio A native of Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Craig Galbraith is one of Canada's exciting young composers. He has won awards including the Karen Keiser Prize in Canadian New Music and first prize in SOCAN’s Hugh Le Caine Award for an electroacoustic work, Silhouette. He was also a prize

Creator ProfileBio Composer and librettist Dean Burry is a storyteller. In addition to his extensive work in the opera and concert music fields, he has become one of the world’s leading composers of children’s opera, his works receiving performances across Canada, the United States, Europe, China and Brazil. At over

Creator ProfileBio Recent completed works are Learning to be a Man and A Pain in the Arts. Michael's love of music and writing came together when he completed the Tapestry Opera LIBLAB where he wrote the librettos for four five-minute operas: Passion Fruit, Restoration, Connections, and Where You Live, the

Creator ProfileBio Bobby Theodore is a screenwriter, playwright, and translator. Bobby has worked on several TV series, including Murdoch Mysteries, Flashpoint, and Knuckleheads (an adaptation of the hit Québecois cartoon, Têtes à claques). Nominated for a Governor General Award in 2000 for his translation of 15 Seconds by François Archambault,

Creator ProfileBio Based in San Francisco, composer Aaron Gervais works with ensembles and presenters across North America and Europe. He is particularly interested in humour, found materials, quotation/collage, and the sociological aspects of how people use music. As such, Aaron’s output ranges from the introspectively sombre to the irreverently slapstick,

Creator ProfileBio Born in England in 1959, Nic Gotham emigrated to Canada as a child and grew up in Ancaster, Ontario. At York University in Toronto, he met his most important teachers, David Mott and James Tenney. In the 1980s, Nic burst upon the downtown scene with his jazz-funk group,

Creator ProfileBio Fucked Up have had one of the most unpredictable career arcs of any band of this century, let alone any course run by a scrappy hardcore outfit from Toronto. What started as a ragtag group of people learning their instruments together and releasing searingly confrontational seven-inch singles, quickly

Creator ProfileBio Fucked Up have had one of the most unpredictable career arcs of any band of this century, let alone any course run by a scrappy hardcore outfit from Toronto. What started as a ragtag group of people learning their instruments together and releasing searingly confrontational seven-inch singles, quickly

Creator ProfileBio As a composer and musician for the stage, Nick has worked and collaborated with the National Arts Centre; National Theatre School of Canada; Great Canadian Theatre Company; Centaur Theatre; Lucion Media; Repercussion Theatre; Geordie Theatre; The Theatre Centre; Imago Theatre; Infinitheatre; Concordia University; National Circus School; McGill and

Creator ProfileBio John Harris is a composer and Artistic Director of the Red Note Ensemble. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar at Trinity College, and he took his Master’s degree in composition at the RSAMD in Glasgow. He has extensive experience as

Creator ProfileBio Benjamin Pesetsky is a composer and writer. His music has been performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra, the American Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Winds, Tapestry Opera in Toronto, WordSong and the Shakespeare Concerts in Boston, and Guerrilla Composers Guild and the Phonochrome Collective in San Francisco.

Creator ProfileBio Omar Daniel has composed extensively in solo, chamber, electronic and orchestral idioms, and was the 1997 recipient of the Jules Lèger Award for New Chamber Music. Other composition awards include the 2007 K.M. Hunter Arts Award, the SOCAN National Competition for Young Composers and the CBC National Radio

Creator ProfileBio I have been an actor for over thirty years. I am currently living, acting, writing and coaching in beautiful Winnipeg, Manitoba. Originally from Montreal, I have worked on stages across the country and extensively in film, television and radio. I studied at the National Theater Institute at The

Creator ProfileBio Darren J — born in 1984 and from Montréal — does not write autobiographical texts using the third person. I studied music composition and theory at McGill University, completing my bachelor’s in 2011 and master’s in 2014 under the supervision of Chris Paul Harman and Denys Bouliane. During

Creator ProfileBio Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker), a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after

Creator ProfileBio Praised by The San Francisco Chronicle as “hauntingly lovely and deeply personal,” Lembit Beecher’s music combines “alluring” textures (The New York Times) and vividly imaginative colors with striking emotional immediacy. Noted for his collaborative spirit and “ingenious” interdisciplinary projects (The Wall Street Journal), Lembit has served three-year terms

Creator ProfileBio Twice winner of the Juno Award for Best Classical Composition, Chan Ka Nin’s works have been performed by ensembles and artists such as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Orchestra, CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Esprit Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra London Canada, Symphony

Creator ProfileBio Mark is a Toronto-based playwright and librettist. His projects with composer Chan Ka Nin include Iron Road (Tapestry Opera), The Weaving Maiden (Soundstreams), Harmonious Interest (Victoria Symphony) and Dragon’s Tale (Tapestry/Soundstreams). Other selected work includes Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman (Pea Green Theatre Group/Buddies In Bad Times), The

Creator ProfileBio Originally from Cracow, Poland, Norbert Palej has been recognized for his “first-rate and genuinely original work” (American Composers Orchestra), and a musical language that generates “visceral excitement” (The Boston Globe). “Palej eclipses Lutoslawski,” writes Montreal’s La Presse, while The Gazette calls his work “riveting” and Musical Toronto “fascinating.”

Creator ProfileBio A two-time Canadian Screen Award winner and International Film Music Critics Association Award nominee with over 100 composition credits to his name, Darren Fung is a highly influential composer who is well-respected in the TV and Film scoring worlds. His work on Niobe Thompson’s The Great Human Odyssey

Creator ProfileBio Born 1950 in Los Angeles, 'Dick' started playing guitar in Fullerton, the home of Fender Guitars, at age 10. He began performing popular music at age twelve, moving through folk, surf, rock, R&B, blues and soul bands. He began writing songs for his group Northern Sound, recording two

Creator ProfileBio Don Hannah is an award winning playwright and novelist. His pair of one-person shows, The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter, are published by Playwrights Canada Press, and Cave Painter received the 2012 Carol Bolt Award. He was the inaugural Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta

Creator ProfileBio Stephen Andrew Taylor composes music that explores boundaries between art and science. His first orchestra commission, Unapproachable Light, inspired by images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the New Testament, was premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 1996 in Carnegie Hall. Other works include the chamber quartet

Creator ProfileBio Rodney Sharman teaches composition at the VSO School of Music. He has been Composer-in-Residence of Early Music Vancouver’s “New Music for Old Instruments," the Victoria Symphony, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Composer-Host of the Calgary Philharmonic’s New Music Festival, "Hear and Now." In addition

Creator ProfileBio Atom Egoyan is one of the most celebrated contemporary filmmakers on the international scene. His body of work – which includes theatre, music, and art installations – delves into issues of memory, displacement, and the impact of technology and media on modern life. Egoyan has won numerous prizes

Creator ProfileBio Camyar Chai is an actor, director, writer and producer, born in 1968 in Iran and raised there and in England and the United States. His family moved to North Vancouver British Columbia in 1980 when he was 11 years old. He graduated from the University of British Columbia

Creator ProfileBio Originally from Northern Ireland, Gareth Williams is a Chancellor’s Fellow at Edinburgh College of Art. His compositions seek to find new participants, collaborators and audiences for new opera and music theatre, to shed light on stories and communities that have been overlooked, and to explore ideas of vulnerability

Creator ProfileBio Born in Greece, educated in the United States, a Canadian citizen since 1985 and a Professor at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto since 1995, Christos Hatzis is one of Canada’s most important composers. Hatzis was born in Volos, Greece and received his early music instruction at

Creator ProfileBio Playwright, librettist, and translator John Murrell was born in 1945 in Lubbock, Texas, and died on November 11, 2019 of leukaemia in Calgary, Alberta. He completed a BFA degree at Southwestern University in Texas, and came to Canada in 1968 with his wife, Cindy Galbreath. He graduated from

Creator ProfileBio David James Brock is a screenwriter, playwright, poet, and opera librettist with national and international production history. He won the 2011 Herman Voaden Canadian National Playwriting Award for his play Wet, which was nominated for three Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards in 2019. Brock is the author of two

Creator ProfileBio From scoring films, to researching rap, to running a concert series dedicated to new Canadian music, to hauling percussion around southern Ontario, to helping an entire class of students collectively compose a piece for symphony orchestra, composer August Murphy-King has worn a wide array of hats throughout his

Creator ProfileBio Toronto composer James Rolfe has been commissioned and performed by ensembles, orchestras, choirs, theatres, and dance and opera companies in Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the K. M. Hunter Music Award, the Louis Applebaum Composers

Creator ProfileBio Christiaan’s love of music began at an early age and has been a part of his life since he can remember. His goal is to write expressive and uplifting music that excites both audience and performers. Christiaan received his Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of

Creator ProfileBio Norman Yeung is a writer, actor, and visual artist. His play Theory won the Voaden Prize and was nominated for the Carol Bolt Award. Pu-Erh received four Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, including Outstanding New Play, and was a finalist for the Voaden Prize. Other plays and performance

Creator ProfileBio Playwright, actor, and director Morris Panych is a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre. He has directed over ninety productions across Canada, and written thirty plays that have been produced throughout Canada, Britain, the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand in a dozen languages. Panych

Creator ProfileBio Composer and pianist Jack Perla is active in opera, jazz, chamber and orchestra music. His music is widely performed, and he has played in the U.S., Europe, India and Japan. Beginning over twenty five years ago in New York with his group Music Without Walls, and continuing after

Creator ProfileBio Ken Gass is currently the artistic director of Canadian Rep Theatre, where he has directed several recent projects, including the Dora-nominated How Do I Love Thee? and Armstrong’s War last season. Ken’s own plays include Claudius, The Boy Bishop (Chalmers Award finalist) Amazon Dream, Slip Knot, Bethune Imagined

Creator ProfileBio Kevin Morse is a composer based in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, where he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music at Mount Allison University. His diverse portfolio includes solo, vocal, and chamber music, several short operas, and works for orchestra. In addition, he has created audio

Creator ProfileBio Described as a “new music visionary” (National Arts Centre), composer Andrew Staniland has established himself as one of Canada’s most important and innovative musical voices. His music is performed and broadcast internationally and has been described by Alex Ross in the New Yorker Magazine as “alternately beautiful and

Creator ProfileBio Iman Habibi, D.M.A. (University of Michigan), is an Iranian-Canadian composer and pianist, and a founding member of the piano duo ensemble Piano Pinnacle. Hailed as “a giant in talent” (the Penticton Herald), “whose technical mastery is matched by his musical and cultural literacy” (Hudson-Housatonic Arts), Iman has been

Creator ProfileBio Prior to entering medical school, Charles studied English and Drama at Queen’s University and obtained a Masters in Drama at the University of Calgary. He received his M.D. from Queen’s University and subsequently trained as a radiation oncologist. He is a former Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology at

Creator ProfileBio Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Ivan Barbotin began playing guitar at 10. Within a couple of years, he formed the rock band Sphinx which soon won the “Soviet Union’s Best Youth Band” competition. At 16, he joined Russia’s celebrated rock band Forum as lead guitarist, where he was

Creator ProfileBio The music of composer Benton Roark (he/him) has been described as “visionary” (The Vancouver Sun), “ardent and soaring” (The National Post), and “an experience of deep and darkling beauty” (The Austin Chronicle). In recent years much of his work has focused on new opera, with full productions including

Creator ProfileBio Daniel Solon attended the University of Texas, Austin (BA English, Theatre and Dance minor), studied acting at The New School in NYC, received an MFA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media from the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and an MA in Opera Making from

Creator ProfileBio David Yee is a mixed race (half Chinese, half Scottish) playwright and actor, born and raised in Toronto. He is the co-founding Artistic Director of fu-GEN Theatre Company, Canada’s premiere professional Asian Canadian theatre company. A Dora Mavor Moore Award-nominated actor and playwright, his work has been produced

Creator ProfileBio Chris is a composer & arts educator. Chris writes chamber and orchestral works, film-score, and opera. He is also an arts educator, bringing the voices of young people into focus through collaborative creation of new operas and instrumental works. His music has been described as “urgent, masterful” (NOW

Creator ProfileBio Nic writes for theatre, television, and film. His work has been produced around the world. Nic adapted his first play, The Elephant Song, into a feature film starring Xavier Dolan, Bruce Greenwood, and Catherine Keener. His latest, Butcher, was mounted across Canada. A graduate of the CFC’s Prime