Member
Contact Information
https://www.bronwyntt.com/
Location
Montreal, Quebec
Early Music Skills & Interests
Voice - Soprano
Early Music Affiliations
Administrator, Concert Producer, Music/Artistic Director, Performer, Student
Biography
Bronwyn Thies-Thompson (she/they) is a professional musician and graduate student, currently pursuing their PhD in Religions and Cultures at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Bronwyn maintains a busy performance career, as a classically-trained soprano sought after for her solid and inspired performances as a soloist and amongst chamber ensembles, regularly collaborating in live performances and on recordings with the leading early music and contemporary music groups in Canada and abroad. Their “clean and clear voice” (National Capital Opera Society) and “natural and assured musicianship,” informed by their musical upbringing as a cathedral chorister and instrumentalist in Ottawa, Canada, have also been appreciated during collaborations with the Tallis Scholars, the London Handel Players and Dame Emma Kirkby, among others. She has been featured on film soundtrack recordings for Canada's National Film Board productions, and on Juno-nominated discs with countertenor Daniel Taylor's Theatre of Early Music and Trinity Choir. Their 20 year ongoing practice as a church musician inspires and informs their autoethnographic and creative approach to their academic interests. These interests include: Anglicanism, liturgics, performance theory, and the intersections betweens the voice, gender and sexuality. Bronwyn’s primary research examines the Anglican choristership tradition in Canada, interrogating how aspects such as childhood professionalism, musical pedagogy, and gender perception/performance operate, and how this tradition has also effectively functioned as training for adult professionalization in music.
