Justin Wright is a composer, cellist, and multidisciplinary artist from Montreal. Wright’s music is characterized by a seamless blending of avant-garde approaches and timbral experimentation with the evocative and meditative spirit of folk and sacred music traditions. Classical concert halls, underground loft venues, art museums, pop music venues, planetariums, and the glaciers of the High Arctic have all comfortably been home to his performances, a reflection of his defiance of traditional categorization and wide-ranging artistic interests. Wright’s primary composition tools, for both electronic and acoustic music, are his cello, Ableton Live, a modular synthesizer, and a 4-track tape machine. His recent work aims to reengage with his scientific past as well as expand into other media such as film, photography, and DIY technology. Wright holds a BSc and MSc in molecular biology, and is currently a PhD candidate in music composition at Princeton University primarily studying under Tyondai Braxton and Donnach.

Justin Wright was generously supported by the Lewitt Family Foundation Artist Award.

Hillary Bonhomme is a performer and composer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on a musical trilogy and corresponding graphic notations. Her work is influenced by Nina Simone, Meredith Monk, Phillip Glass, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland.

She enjoys collaborations with choreographers, filmmakers, and podcast-makers. She aims to use music as a 'third space' and social cavern in a divided world. Hillary has participated in residencies in the US and abroad. She was a recipient of the Pablo Vela Memorial Scholarship to participate in the Meredith Monk Vocal Ensemble Program, where she developed her skills in experimental composing styles and furthered her interest in cultivating community through music. Based in New York’s thriving arts and culture scene, she additionally opts to present her work in spaces not catered to live music. She has been a featured act in art exhibitions, theatre festivals, and city gardens.

As a singer and multi-instrumentalist, her original compositions are currently being performed solo with looping, vocal fx, synths, keys, hand drums, and guitar. She has created 'glacial humming,' where her pieces serve as a curriculum for a music-social experience conducted by Hillary. The mission of 'glacial humming' is to achieve higher levels of consciousness around connection through musical play.

Hillary Bonhomme was generously supported by the Banff Centre Endowment.

Highly interested in the solo and chamber repertoires of the XX and XXI centuries, the Brazilian pianist Alice Belém has already performed in Brazil, Portugal and Germany. She has recorded works of emerging and emblematic Brazilian contemporary composers for the projects ‘Brazilian Music’s Memory’, ‘Listen Here Festival’ and ‘I would like to hear...’. She has also premiered works and developed collaborations with composers from Latin America, United States and Japan.

Since 2022, Alice Belém has been developing interdisciplinary concerts joining music, video, dance and literature, aiming to rethinking the traditional concert experience. By collaborating with other performers, composers, video makers and dancers, Alice Belém aims to incorporate new creative methods and refresh her own performance skills through an interdisciplinary approach. Other key themes in her current work include the experimentation of extended piano techniques and reimagining works by other composers through contemporary lens.
Alice Belém concluded her PhD at the Music Department of the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil, and attended a Split-site doctoral program at the Cologne University of Music in Germany. She is currently a Professor at the School of Music of the State University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, where she teaches Piano, Chamber Music and Contemporary Music Performance.

Alice Belém was generously supported by the Banff Centre Endowment.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture. She is the author of numerous books, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). My Lesbian Novel, a work of fiction and autobiography, was released in 2024. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in the Connecticut River Valley.

Michel Savoie has been a stage costume cutter for almost 35 years. Having worked for all the performing arts, in cinema, television and circus he’s as passionate about historical costumes as for performance and fantasy costumes but his greatest joy is to collaborate artistically with different designers from all over the world. For a few years now he has devoted a part of his time at teaching students in the university programs of Theater and Fashion at UQAM but he’s still fully active at making beautiful costumes for many productions.

Laura Elliott is a longtime teacher, choreographer, producer, and activist within the Winnipeg community. She is the executive director of the Fat Babes Dance Collective, a co-producer of Skylines Dance and Film Series, and works full-time in the wardrobe department at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Within her role at the RWB she has had the deep privilege of creating and developing costumes for dancers of all levels, ages, abilities, and shapes. She has worked on classical projects such as Coppelia, Swan Lake, Etudes, and Don Quixote, and more contemporary works supporting artists such as Cameron Fraser Monroe, Gabriela Rehak, Sahel Pascual, Meredith Rainey, Yosuke Mino, Rachel Cooper, and Philippe Alexandre Jacques. She is deeply passionate about creating costuming that both suits the choreographic vision, and the artist who wears it.