About Me
About Me
Performance History:
Victoria Conservatory of Music
Norfolk House School - senior & chamber choirs
St John’s the Divine & Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria
Linden Singers/Amity Singers/CapriCCio - Victoria
UVIC Chamber Singers/UVIC Wind Symphony - Victoria
Robinson College Chapel Choir, Cambridge UK
Musicke Fyne, Inverness UK
Aberdeen Bach Choir, Aberdeen UK
Women of Note, Salt Spring Island
Vox Humana, Victoria
Victoria May Sing, Victoria ad hoc
Bach on the Rock/Salt Spring Chamber Orchestra
Salt Spring Concert Band
Grafitti Theatre (Board Member & Music)
Music & Munch Winter Recital - annual 2007 - 2015
Vancouver Island Chamber Choir, Victoria
Ensemble Laude Women’s Choir, Victoria
Victoria Baroque Players, Victoria
St Christopher’s Singers, Victoria.
Favourites:
1981 Amahl & the Night Visitors
1983 Noyes Fludde (Mrs Sem)
1987 - 1991 UVIC Chamber Singers Tours (with Dr Bruce More)
1993 UK Premiere - Steve Reich’s Tehellim
1997 Dido & Anaeus (Belinda/Witch)
2006 Bach: Christmas Oratorio
2007 Shakespeare in the Park - The Tempest (Earth)
2009 Video Games Live, Victoria
2010 World premieres of Tobin Stokes ‘O Sapientia’, Chanukah Songs by Joi Freed-Garrod and ‘Winter Solstice’ by Linda Quinn
2011 & 2013 Victoria May Sing Intensive - choral & soloist
2015 Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Debussy: ‘Sirenes’
2016 Ensemble Laude tour to France
2017 Vox in the Stars.
Inspiration:
I have been inspired by a great many singers from a wide variety of genres, and presently aim to find a way to join my voice with my love of dance and the emerging 'intentional' dance culture.
I grew up listening to Miriam Makeba, Ella Fitzgerald and Emma Kirkby.
I discovered and fell in love with Kate Bush, Diane Reeves, Beth Quist
and Suzie LeBlanc. I have been trained by Gladys Pearcy, Catherine Lewis, Bernard Turgeon, Julianne Baird and Nancy Argenta. I am also inspired by the vocal styles of Emily van Evera, Annie Lennox, Lisa Gerrard, Imogen Heap and Karen Matheson (Capercaillie).
I will continue to be inspired by new and emerging talent.
Website links:
Blog site: quantumnorth.wordpress.com
Practitioner and teaching: quantumnorth.com
Photography: galleryrasma.com
Musical Type: Classical - Medieval to Baroque;
20th Century
Spiritual/Kirtan/New Age
Folk
Jazz
Backing vocals
Percussion
Tympani
Voice Type: Mezzo
(Sopralto!)
Location: Victoria and Salt Spring Island, BC
I have been singing and playing my whole life; I started with Connie Foss-More and Gladys Pearcy in the early 70s. I gained a BMus from UVIC in 1992 before continuing my musical education at Robinson College, Cambridge.
I am also a photographer, garden landscaper, librarian, energy worker, and dancer.
History, Favourites & Inspiration