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NEWS:
A bit of news. I have moved across the ocean back to my home country. I am looking forward to working with the artists in the Netherlands!



Current and upcoming:


Check out Autolysis, freshly released in April 2024 : 
https://autolysis.playreplay.ca/
This work is an interactive music video: when you see an icon, click on it to deeper your experience!

YEARN, a one hour piece for solo piano and electronics, performed and commissioned by Cheryl Duvall in 2025/2026 at the Canadian Music Centre. More information to come. 

New Music for Old Hands: Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council en Villa Forum long term care home for realizing my new work 'Old Flames'. A performance will be due in 2025
Past:

​Army of Me: Arrangement Björk's Army of Me will be performed by Women from Space 17-piece Improvising Orchestra Big Bang'. March 8, 2024, 9:30 pm  at 918 Bathurst, Toronto​nonacceptance for Accordion, Percussion and Trumpet for Freesound. October 20, 2023 at Arrayspace, Toronto
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Autolysis a new interactive video work for 6 hand piano, performed by  junctQín keyboard collective. Release of video September 9 8pm, 2023 Annette Studio's in Toronto.
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Songs from Southern Harmony. Doors open at 2PM at Saint Matthew's Anglican Church (3962 Bloor Street West, Toronto.) June 4, 2023, 2pm.
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Premiere of
 'Body', a new work for voice, organ and electric guitar for Soundstreams' Electric Messiah. December 22, 23 and 24 2022 at Crow's Theatre in Toronto. 

nonacceptance, a new work for Accordion, Percussion and Trumpet for Freesound will be released digitally in January 2023
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IAMTHERIBCAGE performed by Goodchild./Grady duo, Victoria, BC, January 2022 CANCELED

​IAMTHERIBCAGE
 performed by Nathan Petitpas as part of Thin Edge New Music Collective's line up at X Avant 2020
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Somewhere There with Laura Swankey
, Array Music, April 12, 2020 (composer and voice) CANCELED
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Is this a Tomb or am I in Love for Women from Space 2020, Burdock, Toronto, March 6, 2020 (composer)

Dr. Purgatory, Emmet Ray, Toronto, 19 January, 2020 (voice)

Damage/Visage performed by Emilie Girard-Charest, Mar del Plata, Argentina, November 2019


Birds Make me Think about Freedom with Sol Express, London, ON, October 13 2019, (co-composer and voice)

Thought Replacement Worksheet, commissioned and performed by Sara Constant and An-Laurence Higgins July 31 2019 (Montreal) & August 2 2019 (Toronto)

center, unrestrained commissioned and preformed by Continuum Contemporary Music, Toronto March 30, 2019 (Composer, PIVOT)


Canadian Women Composers Project, with Laura Swankey, Belinda Corpuz and Germaine Liu, March 24, 2019 Guelph and March 28
Toronto (composer and voice)

IAMTHERIBCAGE, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Toronto March 23, 2019 (Composer)

Birds Make me Think about Freedom with Sol Express, January Toronto (co-composer and voice)


Endings with Jumblies Ground Floor Choir, November 22, 2018 (composer and voice)

Birds Make me Think about Freedom with Sol Express, July 4-15 2018, Fringe Festival Toronto (co-composer and voice)

Mother's Tongue (new work for Soundstreams Emerging Composers Workshop) Crow's Theatre Toronto, June 6, 2018

Stein X Beau Suite, 26 April 2018 Array Space, Toronto (voice)

Music by&for Ken Aldcroft XVI with Laura Swankey and Germaine Liu, April 11 2018, Tranzac, Toronto

Catenate, closed by Kontraband Kollektif and University of Toronto Jazz Choir,  March 22, 2018, Walter Hall, University of Toronto


Kontraband Kollektif concert March 18, 2018, Emmet Ray

Kontraband Kollektif EP release: Atropos, 21 January 2018, online stream on Kontraband Kollektif Facebookpage. Kontraband

Catenate by Kontraband Kollektif, opening The Bentway, (voice, composer)


The Anthology Project, December 13 2017, Emmet Ray, Toronto (voice)

The Band Named Crow, December 13 2017, Emmet Ray, Toronto (voice, composer)

Danceworks 40th anniversary, November 16,17,18 Harbourfront Centre Theatre, Toronto (voice)

 A Salty Curse by The Heavyweights Brass Band for Spectrum Music, 28 October 2017, Alliance Francaise theatre, Toronto (composer)


Endings in collaboration with Jumblies Theatre and Soundstreams, October 19 2017, Crow's Theatre, Toronto (composer

The Band named Crow, September 22 2017, Orchard Bar, Toronto (voice, composer)


BANFF Residency, August 2017, Banff (voice, composer)

The Band named Crow July 31 2017, Emmet Ray, Toronto (voice, composer)

​Lieke and Laura July 29 2017, at D Beatstro, Toronto (voice, composer)

Kontraband Kollektif at Artspin, Sunday 23 July, 2017, Harbour Front, Toronto (voice, composer)

​The Band named Crow July 11 2017, Tranzac, Toronto 
(voice, composer)

Kristian Podlacha Band (free improvisation), The Emmet Ray July 2017 (voice, composer)

Systems at Toronto Creative Music Lab, June 2017

Red Waters featured at Spectrum's Tales of Turtle Island, June 2017 (composer)

Arrangement featured at Spectrums Portraits Of Georgian Bay, May 2017 (arranger)


Wish Tank at Tranzac, March 2017 (voice)

Recording of Atropos, September - November 2016 (voice, composer)

PIVOT 2018/19

8/27/2018

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What great news!! I have been selected as one of the participants of PIVOT 2018/19. Check their website to see how amazing this program is. Because it is!

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Soundstreams 2018

4/30/2018

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Very excited to have been selected as one of the participants of Soundstreams Emerging Composers Workshop!
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Interview with A Course in Dying

4/16/2018

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I did an interview with Claudia Crobatia of A Course in Dying about my father's suicide, grief and the recently released Atropos. Find it here. 
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Atropos is out!

1/22/2018

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After a successful livestream release, Atropos is now available for purchase and stream:

​CDBaby:
http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/kontrabandkollektif2

Bandcamp:
https://kontrabandkollektif.bandcamp.com/album/atropos

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4vPWqiQprRThCw9zkANXKk
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Grants

1/15/2018

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I am very grateful to have received not one, but two grants in the past two months.
Thank you Canada Council for the Arts (Grant for artistic development) and Ontario Arts Council (Commissioning Grant)!

​I will make the most out of this. 
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Atropos EP Release

1/10/2018

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Atropos, Kontraband Kollektif's debut EP will be released into the world on January 21st. I would like to bring it into existence with a live stream of the premiere of two new pieces, a solo piece and duet with Mara Nesrallah.

Atropos consists of 5 pieces of music, Oizys, Nyx, Atropos, Athena and Aether. The music is based on my experience of the illness and death of my father. 

As proud as I am of this EP, a celebration is not what this calls for: Atropos is about pain and grief, about feelings of helplessness and doubt, about anger and missing. Opposite feelings that have to exist side by side, inside us. No one can escape this conflict of emotions. No one is immune to pain. The two pieces featured during this live stream draw from these feelings.

I invite you to join myself, Mara Nesrallah and Tom Upjohn for this live stream on the Kontraband Kollektif page on this day and hour, from a place where you feel good, and help us to create a beautiful moment. To all who grieve. 

I want to thank all the beautiful and supportive musicians featured on Atropos:
Emily Steinwall (tenor sax)
Be Mcc-b (bass clarinet)
Justin Orok (guitar)
Hayden Farrar (bass)
Jillana Nickel (marimba and checkers)
Alfie Vienneau (drums)
Maria-Carmela Raso (voice)
Mingjia Jessica Chen (voice and artwork)
Laura Swankey (voice)

I also thank:
Tom Upjohn (producer and mix engineer on Nyx and Athena)
Nick Bonin (recording and mix engineer)
Humber College Lakeshore Campus studio 

Special thanks to Nicole Mertens, Magdalena Malada, Loes Singeling-van Der Voort, Sonja Ja, Amahl Arulanandam, Shelley Marwood, Mara Nesrallah, Shannon Gunn, Christine Duncan, Reuben Ghose, Megan Jutting and Andrew Mullin.
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Catenate

1/10/2018

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Kontraband Kollektif was invited to write a piece for the opening of the ice skate rink at The Bentway. The piece is called Catenate and consists of 7 soundscapes (the 7 parts of the city The Bentway will connect) and a melody throughout.

Thank you for having us!
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Collaboration with Jumblies and Soundstreams

9/18/2017

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Really excited to announce that in collaboration with Jumblies Theatre I have created a piece inspired by Claude Vivier's Müsik fur das Ende. This is going to be great! Check out Soundstreams Website for more information

https://www.soundstreams.ca/performances/salon-21/endings-lieke-van-der-voort-jumblies-theatre/
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Art Spin

7/24/2017

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That was one amazing gig! Thank you for having us, Art Spin! Picture by Art Spin.
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Artspin Toronto

7/20/2017

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Kontraband Kollektif will be participating in this years Artspin!

"“Here is the Soil, Here is the Water” is a piece inspired by the recent floods on Toronto Island. It aims to capture waters unpredictability, our perpetual and ancestral ties to it and the belonging to the earth that we as humans share with water. The same lake that we enjoyed last summer, has taken a part of this years' summer away."

A guided improvised piece written by Lieke van der Voort, featuring herself as well as Maria-Carmela Raso and Laura Swankey. Come check it out!
 
Also check out: 
Artspin: www.facebook.com/artspin/?ref=br_rs
Maria-Carmela Raso: www.mariacarmelasounds.com/
Laura Swankey: www.facebook.com/LauraSwankeyMusic/
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