I realized this spring that in my excitement of my return to health I had taken on too much. I was overworked and burnt out. I had no time for friends, no time for our house, no time for my own creative work. I mapped out what I had been doing and knew that something [...]
Monday, 21 June 2010 7:30 pm Mayfair United Church (902-33rd Street West) tickets: $15 adults, $10 students/seniors available at McNally Robinson or at the door
My piece for vocal trio—tongues in 7—is being performed on Wednesday, May 12 at the Sounds New Festival by the wonderfully energetic and eclectic juice vocal ensemble.
Voicing classes are designed to help you enhance the range, depth, power and resonance of your voice. Using games, exercises, text, movement, improvisation, and song, these classes are recommended for everyone interested in singing, acting, public speaking, or just being comfortable with your voice and how you use it. Lia’s voice teaching is based on [...]
The Saskatchewan Craft Council was kind enough to let me perform on their fire escape during Back Alley Antics III in June and have put up photos of my performance. Here’s the link.
Last November I was invited to the Watermill Centre on Long Island in New York to work on “U”—a Klingon Opera—with the Klingon Terran Research Ensemble. NPR did a spot on the KTRE workshop and streaming audio of the interview can be found here.
Please join us for a unique reading. The audience will travel through the studio to view art installations and hear poetry. The Willow Studio is located in the old Saskatoon News Agency/Book Store. It’s a very groovy place. Thanks to Willow manager Laura Erikson for her enthusiastic acceptance of the idea to combine poetry with [...]
Last week I posted the following goals: 1. to stick with my new routine 2. to rehearse & record the music for “susurrations” 3. to register myself & J for classes 4. to make a rough edit of “susurrations” And did pretty well accomplishing most of that.
about the mouth is a cabaret-style concert of new and improvised vocal works. Lia Pas and Helen Pridmore, singers trained in extended vocal techniques, will perform an hour-long concert of compositions written by Lia Pas and John Cage, improv-based scores by Helen Pridmore and Lia Pas, and a bit of Klingon Opera thrown in for [...]
I recently returned from an amazing 10-day workshop with Richard Armstrong in Banff. The International Voice Workshops have been running at the Banff Centre for many many years. The last time I attended was in 2001, then worked privately with Richard in NYC in 2002, then he & I kept missing each other through my [...]