CV

Julia Ryckman

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Education

2008 Royal Conservatory of Music, ARCT, Voice Performance
2004 Honours Bachelor’s degree in English, University of Winnipeg
2001 Royal Conservatory of Music, Grade X, Piano

Training

2005 – present Private Opera Instruction with Diane Berger
2005-2006 Private Opera Instruction with Valdine Anderson
2006 Contemporary Opera Lab, University of Manitoba
2005 Richard Miller’s Voice Performance Pedagogy, Oberlin College, Ohio

Musical Performance Groups

2010 – present This Hisses with fellow musicians Patrick Short and Jean-Paul Perron
2005 – present Slattern
2008 – present Triunfo Do Gato with fellow musician Rob Vilar
2006 – 2009 The Gorgon with fellow musicians Alana Mercer and Jennifer Alexander
2004-2007 DADA DADA:Lazers with fellow musicians Thomas Dorey, Glenn Hall, and Rob Vilar

Musical Recordings

2013 This Hisses “Anhedonia” Label: Transistor 66 Record Co.12” Vinyl, CD, Digital DownloadDistributor: Outside Music
2011 This Hisses “Surf Noir” Label: Transistor 66 Record Co.12” Vinyl, CD, Digital Download
2011 Slattern – Slattern/Lipstickface Split 12” Self-released12” Vinyl
2011 Manitoba Folkways Project of Jen Delos Reyes and Kerri-Lynn Reeves Documenting music being made about Manitoba in Manitoba today.This Hisses performed three original songs that were documented through audio recording, video, and photography. The songs were included in a digital compilation album and the video and photographs were presented in an exhibition, in Winnipeg.
2009 CKUW – Uncovered Local Musicians covering an inspirational local artist.The Gorgon was invited to participate in this project and recorded a cover of Personality Crisis’ song “Creatures for Awhile”. CD
2008 Record of the Week Club Song “Don’t Wanna Cross” written and performed collaboratively with Matt Peters and Lloyd PetersonGround breaking community-building recording project of Michael P Falk (formerly Petkau), which was nominated for Pop Recording of the Year at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards. CD, Digital Download
2008 The Gorgon “Corpse Whale” Label: Transistor 66 Record Co. CD, Digital Download
2006 DADADADA:Lazers “Whims of Fantasy”  Self-released CD
2005 DADADADA:Lazers (self-titled) Self-released CD
2005 Slattern “Demo 1” Self-released mini-CD

Site-Specific Projects

2013 Becoming Beluga, Churchill, Manitoba.Collaborative social sculpture/residency/documentary film project with Ryan Klatt and Laura Magnusson. I joined the project for four days to perform opera and vocal improvisation.
2013 Songworks 2013, Songwriters Association of Canada Professional Songwriting Camp. Dorthy Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park. Invited to be one of nine songwriters, working with three Manitoba producers, co-writing and recording three songs in three days.

Live Music with Film/Expanded Cinema

2013 Slattern / Julia Ryckman Commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Group to write and perform a one hour original music score to Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed.Performed February 28, 2013 at Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba.Encore presentation June 6, 2013 (shortened performance) at The West End Cultural Centre for Band vs Filmmakers: A Concert In Support of Cinematheque.
2011 “Hagioscope”, 2011 Story and Music by Slattern / Julia Ryckman Live Animation by Doreen GirardPerformed as part of “Winter’s Night”, a program of Expanded Cinema at the following: The Alamo, Austin, Texas, December 12, 2011; The Black Lodge Studio, Co-presented by Cinematheque and MAWA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 27, 2012; and Suoni Per Il Popolo, experimental music festival, Montreal, Quebec, June 2012.
2010 “Sontiainen”, 2010 Story and Music by Slattern / Julia Ryckman Live Animation by Doreen GirardPerformed as part of “Winter’s Night”, a program of Expanded Cinema at the following: The Alamo, Austin, Texas, December 12, 2011; The Black Lodge Studio, Co-presented by Cinematheque and MAWA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, January 27, 2012; and Suoni Per Il Popolo, experimental music festival, Montreal, Quebec, June 2012.Performed at WNDX: Winnipeg’s Festival of Film & Video Art, September 30, 2012Performed at Slattern/Lipstickface Split 12” release show, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 28, 2011Debut at Plastic Paper: Winnipeg’s Festival of Animated Illustrated and Puppet Film, May 8, 2010.

Live Theatre Performances

2012 The Circus of Objects, by Adhere And Deny Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, MB September 2012
Curator: Grant Guy
2012 The Sandwich Neo-psychedelic performance work by Out of Line Theatre, creation and direction by Mia van Leeuwen, co-creation and performance by Ian Mozdzen, featuring Natasha Torres-Garner, Delf Gravert and myself, with video by Richard Altman. May 9-12, 2012 at Atomic Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Video

2013 This Hisses “Blacksmith” Music VideoDirected by Gwen Trutnau and Ryan Simmons
Acting Role
2011 Slattern “Baby Love Hurts” Music VideoDirected by Travis Cole and Damien Ferland
Acting Role
2011 Love Winnipeg Video by Barbara Sternberg“Will Love” by Slattern (from Slattern/Lipstickface split 12”) used as sole soundtrack to video.
2010 Yasmina’s Yatra Directed by Ryan Klatt, Music by Andy Rudolph
Performed choral vocal pieces for score.
2010 Dancing in the Club Directed by Alek Rzeszowski
Acted in role as club-goer.