Canoe

Dr. Spy Dénommé-Welch (Algonquin-Anishnaabe) is a multi-disciplinary composer, librettist/playwright, producer, and educator. Select credits as a writer and composer include: Transpositions (2022); Rouge Winter (2019);  RADAR (2019);  Contraries: A Chamber Requiem (2018);  Sojourn (2017);  Bottlenecked (2017);  Victorian Secrets (2014);  Giiwedin (2010). He is Artistic Director of Unsettled Scores, and an Associate Professor at Western University.

Catherine Magowan is a bassoonist, composer, conductor, and arts administrator. She is first-generation Canadian of Jewish-Hungarian ancestry. Recent composing credits (with collaborator Spy Dénommé-Welch) include Transpositions (featured composer, 2022), RADAR (2019), Rouge Winter (2019), Contraries: A Chamber Requiem (2018), and Sojourn (2017, commissioned by Signal Theatre). Her second opera (also with Dénommé-Welch) premieres in the fall of 2023. As a bassoonist and flautist Catherine regularly freelances throughout Ontario, and is co-founder of the world’s first electric bassoon band. Catherine is the Managing Director of Unsettled Scores.

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Language (swearing), mention of self harm, and Mentions of Residential Schools and death and harm in relation to Residential Schools.

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Unsettled Scores creates and produces musical and theatrical works that explore and reflect difficult Canadian and global histories, while being relevant to contemporary issues and subject matter. Unsettled Scores was co-founded in 2006 by Dr. Spy Dénommé-Welch (Indigenous Algonquin-Anishnaabe) and Catherine Magowan (Hungarian-Jewish), and together they have created and produced solo, chamber, orchestral and opera pieces, as well as theatrical and multimedia work. www.unsettledscores.com

Native Earth Performing Arts is Canada’s oldest professional Indigenous theatre company. Currently in its 41st year, Native Earth is dedicated to creating, developing and producing professional artistic expressions of the Indigenous experience in Canada. Through stage productions (theatre, dance and multi-disciplinary art), script development, apprenticeships and internships, Native Earth seeks to fulfill a community of artistic visions. www.nativeearth.ca

The Toronto Consort is Canada’s leading ensemble specializing in the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Early Baroque. Founded in 1972, The Toronto Consort was one of Canada’s first professional period-music ensembles and currently features nine of Canada’s leading early music specialists, including singers and instrumentalists. www.torontoconsort.org

Founded in 1968, Theatre Passe Muraille is Canada’s original alternative theatre company, currently developing and producing new Canadian plays. TPM is striving to articulate a distinctly Canadian voice that reflects the complexity of our intercultural society. TPM believes there should be a more diverse representation of artists, audience members, and stories in our theatre. TPM aspires to be a leader locally, nationally and internationally in establishing, promoting and embracing collaborative and inclusive theatre practices. We do this so that we can support and ignite the voices of unique artists, communities and audiences. www.passemuraille.ca