Kris W is a music-maker, HSP, and young Dharma yoga practitioner, from Treaty 1 (Winnipeg, MB).
Kris’ composition undergrad (Desautels Faculty of Music) included guidance from Gordon Fitzell, Örjan Sandred, Karen Sunabacka, and Eliot Britton. Kris received supplementary training through Creative Manitoba’s Mentorship Program (Andrea Sartisan, One Trunk Theatre; Heidi Oulette, Cluster Festival; Matt Peters, Royal Canoe), the Winnipeg New Music Festival lessons & Composer’s Institute (Cassandra Miller; Samy Moussa; Harry Stafylakis), and Precursor Productions Recording Studio (Andrew Yankiwski). Upon graduation, Kris was a selected participant of the Lunenburg Academy of Musical Performances’s Composition Academy, with exceptionally inspired leadership, including Dinuk Wijeratne and Nicole Lizée.
Kris’ catalog spans symphonic, chamber, vocal, electronic, and mixed works. Performance highlights include the WSO, C String Collective and musician/music producer Selci, pianist Everett Hopfner, vocalists Jayne Hammond, Olivia Maxfield, and Chris Donlevy, percussionists/musicians Cameron Denby, Isaac Tate, Nolan Hildebrand, and Tim Roth, and a solo multimedia performance at Cluster Festival.
Kris currently resides as a maker, copyist, yoga instructor, and philosophy student (Pablo Narayana, Sadhana Now; Sam Manchulenko, student of Sri Dharma Mittra), navigating through deep absorption, inquiry, unification, and celebration.
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