Known for her ethereal vocals and thoughtful approach to sound, Dylann Miller is a composer for media and stage and a singer/songwriter presently based in Toronto, ON. 

Her work as a composer includes scores for a variety of media such as documentaries, animation, drama and music for video games. Dylann has a passion for creating new and unusual sounds, incorporating many of her own vocals and customized instruments into her scores, resulting in fresh, dynamic pieces. As a singer, Dylann is well versed in a variety of extended techniques and loves to develop unique sound worlds.   

Her work has strong roots in the Kitchener-Waterloo region where her music has been performed by ensembles including the Wilfrid Laurier’s Concert Choir, Laurier Singers, and The Maureen Forrester Singers. In June 2018, her LGBT+ focused opera, The Covenant premiered in Waterloo and Cambridge.

Her work has been recognized by awards from Arcady’s Young Composer Competition (2017), the SOCAN Foundation (2016); and participation in the 2020 Piano Lunaire Composer’s Symposium, the 2019 Toronto Creative Music Lab (2019) and the 2018 Waterloo Region Contemporary Music Sessions.

During her time as a music composition major at Wilfred Laurier University, she served on the board of the Open Ears Festival as a student liaison (2017-2018).  Following the end of her undergraduate degree, Dylann embraced opportunities as a freelance artist before completing post-graduate studies at Sheridan College (2020-2021) in the Music Scoring for Screen and Stage program.

composer / creator / pianist / noise maker

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This page is predominantly live recordings - please check out studio recordings here:
https://bekahsimms.bandcamp.com/
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Composer Bekah Simms hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and is currently based in Glasgow after nine years living and working in Toronto. Her varied musical output has been heralded as “cacophonous, jarring, oppressive — and totally engrossing!” (CBC Music), “tough, even gutsy...with a sure sense of original and vibrant colours” (Vancouver Sun), and lauded for its "sheer range of ingenious material, expressive range and sonic complexity" (The Journal of Music.) Propelled equally by fascination and terror toward the universe, her work is often filtered through the personal lens of her anxiety, resulting in nervous, messy, and frequently heavy electroacoustic musical landscapes. Recent interests in just intonation and virtual instruments have resulted in increasingly lush and strange harmonic environments.

Bekah's music has been widely performed across North America and Europe. She has worked with some of the top interpreters of contemporary music internationally, including Crash Ensemble - with whom she is currently an artist-in-residence - Riot Ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, and l’Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Bekah has also been the recipient of over 35 awards, competitive selections, nominations, and prizes, including the 2019 Barlow Prize and the 2023 JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. The resulting work from the Barlow Prize, "metamold," was nominated for the 2022 Gaudeamus Award. Works from her debut album “impurity chains” were nominated in both 2019 and 2020 for the JUNO Award for Classical Composition of the Year. Her music has thrice been included in the Canadian Section's official submission to World Music Days (2016, 2019, & 2021), and in 2016 the CBC included her among their annual 30 hot classical musicians under 30.

Bekah is a Lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, following previous academic positions at the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario.  Her principal teachers during academic studies were Gary Kulesha and Andrew Staniland, alongside significant private study with Clara Iannotta and Martin Bédard.

Jason Doell is an acclaimed Canadian composer whose works often skirt the edges of chamber music and sound art. 
www.jasondoell.com

Composer//Improvisor//Violist
Composer for No Crying at the Dinner Table Dir. Carol Nguyen,
and Cookstown the Musical (with Adam Bovoletis): https://arieverheulvandeven.bandcamp.com/releases
"Algoma Highway" available on the Cygnus Trio's album Amalgam:
https://thecygnustrio.com/album/954909/amalgam

1/3rd of HARP+ with Dave Klassen and Grace Scheele.

Kohen Hammond is following