Olivia Shortt
ThisGen 2020 Fellow
Sound Design (Toronto, ON)
(They/Them: Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation) Olivia Shortt is a Tkarón:to-based trans-disciplinary performing artist. They are a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, noisemaker, improviser, composer, sound designer, curator, administrator, and producer.
Highlights include their Lincoln Center (NYC) debut in 2018 with the International Contemporary Ensemble, their film debut performing in Atom Egoyan’s 2019 film ‘Guest of Honour’, as well as recording an album two kilometres underground with Stereoscope in the SnoLAB (Neutrino Lab in Sudbury, Canada). Recent commissions include Long Beach Opera (Songbook 2020), the JACK Quartet (JACK Studio), a new opera for Loose Tea Music Theatre, and Arraymusic Ensemble (Toronto, 2022).
They are alumni of the 2018 cohort of the artEquity facilitator training program (New Orleans, LA), as well as the 2019 Toronto Arts Council’s Leaders Lab. Most recently, they were a finalist for the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award and were awarded and named one of the 2020 Buddies in Bad Times’Emerging Queer Artists. Shortt is featured in the 2020 Winter edition of Musicworks Magazine. They are attending Dartmouth College in the Masters of Digital Musics Program.
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