He participates in numerous creative music projects with Michel F. Côté, Pierre-Yves Martel, Lori Freedman, Jean Derome, Bernard Falaise, Joshua Zubot and Philippe Lauzier, amongst others. His collaborations have led him on tour in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia. Isaiah composes for his own groups (Bréviaire d’épuisements, Lieux-dits, De cælo servare) and for ensembles and musicians such as VivaVoce, Ensemble Kô, Jennifer Thiessen, and others. He currently sings with the Schola Saint-Grégoire (Gregorian chant ensemble).

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He has performed in concert with John Tchcai, Roscoe Mitchell, Joe McPhee, Paul Rutherford, Roger Turner, Fred Anderson, Derek Bailey, Peter Kowald, and many Canadian improvisors including Bill, Smith, Jon Heward, David Lee, John Oswald and David Prentice. Arthur Bull is also a poet, who has published two full-length poetry collections, as well as two chapbooks. He lives on Digby Neck in the Bay of Fundy region of Nova Scotia.

Having over 13 years of teaching experience, Gina has recently been working hard setting up music camps in remote communities in Nunavut. Gina has been a soloist with Symphony Nova Scotia and numerous other Atlantic ensembles. As a session musician, Gina records and performs regularly around Atlantic Canada and beyond. In addition to being on faculty at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts and the Nova Scotia Community College, Gina is also a member of the Maria Osende Flamenco Company, Der Heisser Klezmer Ensemble, and the multiple ECMA award winning Gypsophilia.

Inevitably her roots led her from gospel and inspirational music to soul, singer songwriter folk music, R&ampB/blues, jazz and more recently, new music and improvised music. Since 1994, she has released 5 albums under her own name, and has been involved in many other recording projects, including 2 albums with the Hugh Fraser VEJI big band.

A musical chameleon with a near five octave range, Duncan uses her voice as an instrument, exploring its full tonal, timbral and textural range. She has recorded and/or collaborated with Bob Murphy, Hugh Fraser, Miles Black, Veda Hille, Paul Plimley, Danielle Palardy Roger, Jean Martin and performed with such names as Kenny Wheeler, Rufus Reid, Dave Young, P.J. Perry, Ray Charles, Linton Garner, Paul Horn, Jeff Healey, Andre Crouch, Sabeer Mateen, John Oswald, Paul Dutton, Nobuo Kabota and many others.

Recently she performed in 120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade, winner of the Alcan Performing Arts Award: Music/Opera 2002; a new opera premiere, written by Peter Hannan and Peter Hinton, which was presented in Vancouver BC, by Modern Baroque Opera and Vancouver New Music, in March, 2002.

Along with Christine's rapidly growing audience has come recognition in the form of a nomination for the Alcan and Pacific Music Industry Assn. 1997 West Coast Female Vocalist of the Year. She was also the subject of a CTV/BC Film funded documentary-portrait entitled Coming Home: Christine Duncan at Christ Church Cathedral, currently showing on BRAVO.

He has performed with the Upstream Orchestra, including a July 2007 performance featuring the Live Animal Trio and Fred Frith, Lisle Ellis, Pierre Tanguay, and Paul Cram which was broadcast on the CBC radio program The Signal. In October of 2007, Tim performed in the SuddenlyLISTEN presentation “Roots of the Moment” with Norman Adams and world renowned improvising percussionist Eddie Prevost, and in the fall of 2008 Tim presented “Eight Ball and Door Knob,” a solo concert of new and experimental music. The winter of 2009 spawned Zakugaku, featuring guitarist Geordie Haley and percussionist Doug Cameron. Zakugaku combine free jazz and electronic experimentalism to create a free wheeling sonic experience that is not to be missed.

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Since returning to the Maritimes Geordie has been a featured artist in concert and festival programs by creative music presenters Upstream Music, suddenlyLISTEN, Canadian Music Center, The Motion Ensemble, Jazz East, and the Harvest Jazz Festival.

As an educator Geordie continues his practice at the NSCC Waterfront Campus Music Arts Department, teaching private lessons and instructing ensembles. As a bandleader Geordie’s music can be heard at www.myspace.com/geordiehaley and on CBC Radio 3.

Her influences and studies in Javanese gamelan court music, dance, puppet theatre, and butoh have led her to participate in a wide spectrum of multidisciplined works with Mortal Coil, Snake in the Grass Theatre, Special Delivery Moving Theatre, Serge Bennethan, and Karen Jaimison dance companies. A specialist in traditional vocal repertoire for gamelan orchestra DB has sung and composed new works for Vancouver Gamelan Madu Sari.

Her larger compositional works have included song cycle, Amphibious Tales (1992) which toured Canada and US including the Montreal voice festival - la Voix se fait entendre. Her score for the Arts Club Theatre production of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing was nominated for a Jesse award (1995) which instigated a collaboration with first nations playwright Marie Clements for Urban Tattoo (1998). From 2000 - 2002 she provided musical direction and composed for the millennial production of the SongBird Oratorio - an ecological tribute to Vancouver bird songs.

DB has also devoted much of her energy to producing the work of other artists as curator/director for the Music Program of the Vancouver artist-run-centre the Western Front.

An active composer, Rob’s compositions reflect a multitude of influences, and include both contemporary classical works and outdoor environmental pieces. Rob was awarded the OZ-FM award for excellence and imagination in sound at the 2002 Provincial Drama Festival in St. John's, for composing the soundtrack for the Beothuck Street Players' production of Drink the Mercury. In 2006 he was invited to Patras, Greece to compose a Harbour Symphony for the European City of Culture celebrations, and that same year his percussion trio Untouchable was the first prize winner in the Millennium Arts Society Composition Competition. His most recent work, Woody Island, was premiered by the River Connected percussion duo at the 2010 Sound Symposium. Currently, Rob is an Associate Professor of percussion at the MUN School of Music, where he maintains a large and vibrant studio of talented percussionists, and directs the renowned Scruncheons Percussion Ensemble. He is on the Artistic Committee of the Sound Symposium, and performs regularly in a wide variety of musical collaborations, including the St. John’s rock band The Bash Brothers and the improvisational groups Spanner and McKudo. Rob is also a member of Newfoundland’s premiere African drum and dance ensemble Dzolali, and is the principal percussionist with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra. An avid builder of new and unusual percussion instruments, Rob’s recent constructions include the po-pipes, glass triangle, PVC talking drum, and the quarter-tone mirrorphone.

In 2009 Rob was awarded the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council's Arts in Education Award.

Paul Bendzsa is endlessly experimenting with artists in other media; for example, recent collaborations with visual artist Les Sasaki (in a series called "Hear the Art - See the Music") and improvisations with Vida Simon of Montreal.