Allison Cameron is a professional composer, performer and improvising musician in Toronto. She has been commissioned in Europe and North America by many ensembles and festivals. Since 2000, she has also been an improviser performing on electronic keyboards, ukulele, banjo, piano, mini amplifiers, radios, crackle boxes, cassette tapes, miscellaneous objects and toys.
Allison has been celebrated in Musicworks Magazine, the UK’s The Wire Magazine, I Care if You Listen and a variety of other online publications. Her reputation for writing compelling compositions for contemporary music ensembles is international. She is also a sought after improviser with a strong national following. She has completed two national solo tours in the past four years. In 2007 she founded the Allison Cameron Band with fellow musician/composers Eric Chenaux and Stephen Parkinson to explore uncharted territory in her compositions by integrating a variety of musical forms into her work. The result has been a critically acclaimed CD on the Rat-Drifting label of several genre-defying pieces. In 2009 she formed a trio with trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud and drummer Germaine Liu called c_RL (pronounced curl) who released the CD ‘Friends’ to critical acclaim.
Adrian Russouw’s C’est la Fête
Mateos Labbe-Phelan – drums, William Hunt – piano , Adrian Russouw – bass
the easy absurdity of the dreem
just language without words;
the only difference is difference
Leah Reavie & Omar Yazaw’s “French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup is a group of four musicians who thrive on building strange and vivid textures. Expect a variety of colourful musical spaces explored through both their own original repertoire as well as the repertoire of other Canadian composers.
