Jenny is a Vancouver-based singer, actor, voice teacher, music director and composer.  She is currently the Singing Instructor at Studio 58 (Langara College) and has also run her own private studio for over a decade.  Jenny is glad to have the opportunity once again to perform this fascinating work!

Dorothy Chang is a composer and professor of composition at the UBC School of Music. Chang’s catalogue includes over 70 works for solo, chamber and large ensembles as well as collaborations involving theatre, dance and video. Her interest in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary collaboration has led to projects including a radio play adaptation of Gertrude Stein’s White Wines for four vocalists and speaking percussionist; Flying White (飞白) for mixed Chinese and Western ensemble in collaboration with Wen Wei Dance; Shelter, a collaboration with harpist Janelle Nadeau and filmmaker Sean Shaul; and more recently, Precipice, a work commissioned in 2021 by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra that reflects on the catastrophic effects of climate change.

Adam Frank is a professor in the UBC Department of English whose research and teaching areas include affect theory and poetics in US literature and culture. His essays have appeared in ELH, Criticism, Critical Inquiry, Science in Context and elsewhere. He is the author of Transferential Poetics, from Poe to Warhol (Fordham University Press, 2015), co-author (with Elizabeth Wilson) of A Silvan Tomkins Handbook (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) , and co-editor (with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) of Shame and Its Sisters: A Silvan Tomkins Reader (Duke University Press, 1995). He has also produced a dozen recorded audiodramas in collaboration with composers locally, nationally, and internationally.

Mia Harris is a classically trained singer, actor for stage and film, composer and writer who also loves to paint. As artist-in-residence at the Penticton Art Gallery, Mia explored relational aspects with objects through the lens of presence and mindfulness. Mia facilitates transformative voice work and teaches online and in Penticton.

Having performed with Tanglewood Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra, New York Festival of Song, Mezzo Sprano Kristin Hoff is noted for her “appealing clarity and emotional heft” (New York Times). Her critically-acclaimed interpretation of Sokolovic’s, has been seen in 8 Canadian cities. Kristin is co-founding General and Artistic Director of opera creation company Musique 3 Femmes.

Sarah Jo Kirsch is a vocalist/soundmaker currently based in Coast Salish lands. A practiced soloist and choralist in the Western European classical tradition, they have performed song, oratorio, and opera across Turtle Island and beyond. SJ is also a session musician and improvisor, vocal coach, poet, composer, and sound designer. When invited, they offer their insight on music and sound in lecture, workshops, adjudication, and vocal instruction for arts organizations and academic institutions.

Vancouver-based percussionist Katie Rife is a multifaceted artist who delights in exploring the captivating sounds of the many instruments she plays. She is a strong proponent of new music and a frequent collaborator with local new music organizations and ensembles. Katie is a graduate of UBC and SFCM.

Olive Shakur belongs to an association of tendencies in a mad, queer, Brown settler body. They are a composer, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist. Her work is often concerned with the epistemic framing of how we play instruments. His music has been featured by Arraymusic, Art Gallery of Calgary, FUSE, LIVE Biennale, neither/nor, Open Space, Powell Street Festival, Western Front, and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. It studied at Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and York University.

As a pianist, vocalist, composer, music director and vocal coach, Marguerite has gained a reputation across Canada as a versatile musician. For many years, Marguerite has been actively involved in creating and developing new opera and musical theatre. Currently, she is focused on teaching voice and piano in her private studio, www.awakeningvoice.ca.