Our Composer-in-Residence this year is Carmen Braden!
Carmen Braden is a creator and performer of new, beautiful and sometimes weird music. Songwriting and composing.
She is a two-time JUNO nominated force in the world of new music, hailing proudly from the Northwest Territories. Moving smoothly between genres of composing and songwriting, Carmen is recognized as a “brilliant, young Yellowknife-based composer” (Ottawa Citizen) an “acoustic ambassador of the Canadian Subarctic” (Musicworks). Carmen’s work in music, theatre, songwriting and dance has been performed across Canada and beyond, from Atlin BC to Helsinki, Finland. Her work has a special focus on northern themes as well as the influences of play and parenthood.
Carmen has released four albums to national acclaim. Her contemporary classical compositions are regularly commissioned and performed across Canada, and are being increasingly recorded across Canada and beyond. Carmen is an Associate Composer with the Canadian Music Centre, and is signed to Truant Artist Management for representing her compositional work. She is actively engaged as a contemporary classical composer as well as a performer of her original quirky songs throughout Canada.
