Voice Coaching Lineage

My interest in voice stems from my transformative experience studying and mentoring under Peggy Redmond. I first met Peggy in 2014, having been self-conscious for sometime about being unable to project my voice through long hours of restaurant work and also having always desired to be able to sing.

Before studying voice and art, I'd come from a background in sport, participating in national and international competition, having also spent many years with a diagnosis of chronic depression. 

Peggy's teaching was compassionate, unorthodox, and experimental, and as I learned to use my voice, we marvelled at the ways this simultaneously freed my metaphorical voice, and in turn, my mental health.  Our shared curiosity and wonder in the possibilities of voice and its relationship to body and mind led to a longstanding friendship and mentorship. 

From Peggy I learned a methodology based in the principle that a free sound is one that aligns with vocal health and hygiene and from which follows an experience of direct and effective vocal expression.

As a teacher my practice is grounded in a reverence of process itself. My background in athletics gave me strong and nuanced proprioception and an interest and understanding of the body and its responses to a wide variety of physical and psychological conditions. Art making and voice work has led me deeper into the study of creative practice and the ways we can work with body, breath, and presence to give us access to the myriad possibilities of being beyond the narrow grasp of the rational mind.

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EDUCATION

2019 OCAD University BFA Sculpture/Installation, Toronto, Ontario

2008 University of Toronto Hon. BA Philosophy, Toronto, Ontario

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

2022 LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™, Somatic Voicework™ Levels I & II, Ohio, USA

2021 Renée Yoxon Trans Voice Teacher Training, Montreal, Quebec

2014 - 2021 Private vocal training, teaching apprenticeship under master teacher Peggy Redmond, Toronto, Ontario

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Attention is a task we share, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Resistance, Roundtable Residency, Toronto, Ontario

2019 103rd Annual Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2019 For External Use Only, OCAD University Thesis Exhibition, Beaver Hall, Toronto, Ontario

2017 A National Test Market, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario

2017 LandMarks2017/Repères2017, Rouge National Urban Park, Toronto, Ontario

2017 LandMarks2017/Repères2017, Ada Sleight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2017 Intra-Action Performance Art Evening, Xpace, Toronto, Ontario

2016 USB Shuffle, Institute für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany

ARTIST TALKS

2024 Guest Lecturer: Voice in songwriting, Faculty of Music, Concordia, Montreal, Quebec

2021 Attention is a task we share, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario

2020 Sculpture/Installation Program, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario

2019 On Not Knowing, King’s College, Cambridge University, UK

2019 Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, Ontario

2016 Das Kapital, Berlin, Germany

GRANTS, AWARDS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2024 Explore and Create: Research and Creation, Canada Council for the Arts

2021 Arts Response Initiative: Project Grants for Individuals, Ontario Arts Council

2021 Exhibition Assistance, Ontario Arts Council

2019 Project 31 Sculpture/Installation Award, OCADU

2019 Career Launcher Fund, OCADU

2018 Women’s Art Association of Canada Mary E Dignam Scholarship, OCADU

2018 Wayne Lum Scholarship, OCADU

2015 George A. Reid Fund, OCADU

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

2024 Artist in Residence, Impulse Theatre, Victoria, British Columbia

2023-24 Workshop facilitator (with Thomas Molander and Alexandra Levy) “The Method” songwriting workshop, Montreal, Quebec

2023 Workshop facilitator, “Finding Voice”, The East Pointers’ Goolaholla Music Festival, Souris, Prince Edward Island

2023 Workshop leader, “Gender-affirming voicework basics”, P.E.E.R.S. Alliance, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

2023 Workshop co-leader, “a part / to gather / apart / together : Exploring the role of personal and group practice in the development and discovery of voice” (with UK-based Lucy Farrell), Carriage House, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

2021-23 Workshop leader, “Trans Vocal Exploration” 

• Project 10, Montreal, Quebec (for ages 14-18, and 19-25)
• Centre for Women and Trans People, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario

2022 - 2023 Danse-Cité Residency, Montreal, Quebec

2021 Artists Breathing: Online Workshop Series, Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario

2019 Roundtable Residency, Toronto, Ontario

2017 Nomadic Residency with Tania Bruguera, OCADU, Toronto, Ontario

2015 Quote Unquote Collective Stone Boat Farm Artist Retreat, Lanark County, Ontario