“Bekah Simms’s musical life didn’t start by joining a band or getting piano lessons as a kid. Instead, the Mount Pearl, N.L. native obsessed over video game music – the melodies and the electronic pulses.
“I loved them – that’s what I went to bed to, humming,” recalls Simms, a PhD candidate in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.
“I initially wanted to be a video game composer.”
But as video game music changed over the years, Simms became drawn to music and composition, folding a number of styles – and varying instrumentation – into classical structures…”
