Looking forward to reconnect and play duets with one of the most impressive woman I know. Ellen Waterman is a true renaissance woman!. Scholar, musician, improviser, mother, gardener, etc. Ellen’s distinctive musical practice blends flute and vocalization. She has performed at national and international festivals and venues including Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, the Guelph Jazz Festival, the Suoni Per Il Popolo, and the Onassis Stegi in Athens. Ellen has also been artist-in-residence for several festivals, including The Art of Immersive Soundscapes (U. Regina), Sound Travels Festival (Toronto), and the Chicago Creative Music Workshop (Chicago Jazz Festival). In 2014 and 2018 she participated in the Koumaria Residency in Sellasia, Greece. In the 1980s and ‘90s she performed in a number of R. Murray Schafer’s Patria series of environmental music theatre works and he composed the solo flute pieces Aubade and Nocturne (1996) for her. Ellen is represented on premiere recordings of works by Brian Ferneyhough (CRICD 652), R. Murray Schafer (CMCCD 8902, MW72) and ~spin~ duo with James Harley (ADAPPS 15001). Her current projects include the improvisation duo Pama with Michael Waterman (theremin and invented instruments). Ellen holds the Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada at Carleton University.

We performed in her garden, which she and husband Michael have been really digging into since cover-19 provided them with lots of time to indulge. Obviously they have some seriously green thumbs! Thanks to all who cam to hear us play! And the dinner was fantastic!