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The Canadian soprano, singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and performance curator, Ellen Torrie, obtained their Bachelor of Music Therapy degree from Acadia University (2014-2018). While there, they appeared frequently as a soloist with local ensembles and was lead soprano of the Manning Chapel Choir from 2014 to 2018. In 2017, she was awarded the Canadian Federation of University Women scholarship which funded their participation in Accademia Europea Dell’Opera in Lucca, Italy, where they played Oberto in
George Frideric Handel's Alcina. They obtained her Master of Early Music Performance degree in Early Music Voice from Schulich School of Music of McGill University under the tutelage of
Dominique Labelle (September 2020-2022).
Since 2020, Ellen Torrie have been lead soprano at Montreal’s Christ Church Cathedral and perform regularly with various ensembles in the city and across Canada. and last summer (2022), they were featured as inaugural Emerging Artist of Early Music Vancouver’s Bach Fest alongside Marie Nadeau-Tremblay.
Ellen Torrie is currently exploring the practice of self- accompanying early music on Baroque guitar. As a queer non-binary artist, she is guided by the knowledge of their queer elders and ancestors in the research and performance of radically inclusive stories as they continue to develop musical languages to explore that which is most richly human. They She currently live in
Montréal, Québec, Canada. |
