Tyr Jami, MA, DESS, BFA, Dip.Mus.
tyr.jami@gmail.com
Education
2024 Masters in Composition and Sound Creation, University of Montréal, QC
2022 D.E.S.S graduate degree in digital music, University of Montréal, QC
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts (distinction) in Music Performance Studies. Concordia University. Montréal, QC
2005 Music Diploma. Vancouver Community College Music Program. Vancouver, BC
Awards and Grants
2024 - Friends of Art Fund Scholarship, University of Montréal
2023 -CALQ Grant “Québec - New York State artist-in-residence program”
2021 -Iris for Best Original Score, Documentary Film, Québec Cinema
2020 - Award of Excellence for Original Score “Documentary Sisters: Dream and Variations”
The Indie Fest, La Jolla, California USA.
2019 - FACTOR “Showcase Grant: Syngja”. Sled Island Festival, Calgary, AB
2018 - CALQ “Research Creation Grant: Syngja”
-CALQ “Travel Grant: Syngja”, Out of Earshot Festival, St John's NL
2017 - Canada Council “Inter-arts Production Grant: New Spring”
2016 -Canada Council “Concert Production Grant: Syngja”
2015 - Canada Council “Research Creation Grant: My Cup of Life”
(Documentary Sisters: Dream and Variations & New Spring)
2007 - Canada Council “Music Touring Grants: The Winks”
2006 - Canada Council “Music Touring Grants: The Winks”
2004 - Winner of Vancouver Community College Jazz and Contemporary Competition
- Canada Council Grant, “Specialized Music Sound Recording: The Winks”
2003 - 1st Place, Alternative School Arts Fair Music Competition
2002 - 1st Place, Alternative School Arts Fair Music Competition
2001 - 1st Place, Sound Design Award, GIFTS Film Festival
Original Music
2010-Present Syngja: Ethereal Pop Montréal, QC
- Original songs and compositions (production, cello, voice, samples, effects, live visuals)
2024
07/11 Brain Freeze Montréal, Ausgang Plaza
05/23 Festival Formes Ondes, Université de Montréal
2023
12/21 Ultrasons Festival, Université de Montréal
11/10 Performance @ The Goddess Series (Montréal)
-Mothership NYC Artist residency, Greenpoint, NYC (July-September 2023)
NYC performances 2023
9/28 -Evolving Echoes @Strong Rope Brewery (Red Hook)
9/9 -Easy Paradise Showcase @ Young Ethel's (Park Slope)
9/8 -Brooklyn Collage Collective (Bushwick)
9/2 -Easy Paradise End-of-Summer Bash @ The Local Hostel rooftop (Long Island City)
8/18 -Brooklyn Experimental & Electronic Music Meetup @ Wonderville (Bushwick)
8/18 -Mothership NYC Artist Salon (Greenpoint)
8/24 -Last Frontier NYC Artist Salon (Greenpoint)
8/24 -Easy Paradise Showcase at Young Ethel's (Park Slope)
7/27 -Easy Paradise Summer Concert Series at Otto's Shrunken Head (Manhattan)
7/22 -Kingsland Wildflowers Festival @ No Sphere Arts (Greenpoint)
2022 performances
6/5 -Suoni per Il Popolo Festival @ Casa del Popolo
4/21 -Ultrasons. Université de Montréal Showcase @ Sala Rossa
2022 -Ultrasons. Université de Montréal
-Gullkistan, Center for Creativity Artist residency, Laugarvatn, Iceland
-Music video Première +Artist talk Gullkistan, Center for Creativity Laugarvatn, Iceland
-Concert at Loft, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2022
-In House Outer Space Artist residency, creation of Sorcery video, Reykjavik, Iceland
-Ultrasons Music Love Language video première, Université de Montréal
2019 - Canada tour. QC, ON, SK, AB, BC
- Performances, management, scheduling, poster design, promotion
- NXNE, (Toronto, Ontario) and Sled Island (Calgary, Alberta) Festival Performances
2018 - Album release “Echoing Rose (live in Iceland)” by Ur Audio-Visual Records. Logan, Utah
- Out of Earshot Festival. St John's Newfoundland
- Future Forest Festival. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
2016 - Album release “Lang Amma”
Art Not Love/M for Montreal at the Rialto Theatre. Montréal, QC, funded by Canada Council for the Arts (May 2016)
- Shed Island Festival. St Johns, Newfoundland
-Pop Montréal Festival Showcase presented by MEG Montréal. Montréal, QC
2015 - Phenomena Festival. Montréal, QC
2014 -Pop Montréal Festival. Montréal, QC
- ON tour Peterborough, Kitchener, Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton, Montréal, QC
-St-Ambroise Montréal FRINGE Festival. Montréal, QC
-Suoni Per Il Popolo Experimental Music Festival. Montréal, QC
2013 -NXNE Festival. Toronto, ON
-M for Montréal Festival. Montréal, QC
-Pop Montréal Festival, Théâtre de la Verdure,. Montréal, QC
2012 - Album release “Bow and Arrow”
- Performances in Toulouse, France; Berlin, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and Hornby Island, Vancouver, Victoria, British Columbia, Montréal, Quebec, and Ontario, Canada
Interdisciplinary Projects, Residencies and Performances
2017 New Spring
Inspired by translated Icelandic texts of songs sung by Ingibjorg Gudmundsdottir (1891-1994)
- “Arts Iceland” Artist residency & performance with Syngja. Isafjordur, Iceland
-Performances of original composition, visuals and choreography. Reykjavík, and Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland
-Studio 303 Artist residency with Syngja. Montréal, QC
2013 Party Like It’s 1699 Digital Baroque Opera, Montréal, QC
- Actor, singer, cellist, co-composer presented by Festival Baroque Montréal, Pop Montréal, and the Société des Arts Technologiques, performance by Syngja
2011-2012 Floating Body Archetypes of woodland narratives come to life through costumed body
- Performances in Montréal, QC; NY, NY at Judson church, Mono No Aware, International exhibition for contemporary artists and filmmakers at Causey Gallery, Brooklyn NYC
Composition for Theatre, Film and Virtual Reality
2019-2021 -Documentary “Belong” by Jamie Ross (original score) Montréal, QC
- “Space Portrait II” by Frances Adair Stereoscopic Virtual Reality (soundtrack)
presented at Festival Internacional Inmersiva 3 Centro Cultura Digital, CDMX
- Concerto Films “Sisters Dream and Variations” feature film by Catherine Legault (original score)
2015 - “Triplex Nervosa”, Centaur Theatre (solo cello composition, recorded performance)
2012 - “Haunted”, play by Paul Van Dyck, Hudson Village Theatre (live soundtrack) 2010 - “Smile Stealers” live action animated film by Jasa Baka & Allison Moore (soundtrack, actor)
2008 - Strawberry Hats They Will Protect You”, play by Jasa Baka (music, choreography)
2007 - “Twin Party”, play by Jasa Baka, Concordia University Theatre (music, acting, tap dancing)
Cello studies
2012 Shmuel Magen, Burgos, Spain
2008-2011 Hélène Gagné, Montréal, QC
2002-2005 Susan Round, Vancouver, BC
2001 Ian Hampton, Vancouver, BC
2000-2001 Finn Manniche, Vancouver, BC
1999-2000 Peggy Lee, Vancouver, BC
1991-1998 Judy Fraser, Vancouver, BC
Orchestras
2007-2012 Musicians of the World Symphony Orchestra. Montréal, QC
2003-2004 West Coast Symphony Orchestra. Vancouver, BC
1993-1997 Vancouver Academy Orchestra, Fort Langley Summer Music Camp Orchestra, Serenata Strings, Summer
Pops Youth Symphony Orchestra. Vancouver, BC
Independent Cello Performances/Concerts
2023 -Brooklyn Collage Collective, Brooklyn, NYC
-Vivier InterUniversitaire (ViU) concert @ l’Édifice Wilder, Montréal, QC
- “Opéra TomTom” presented by Arts In the Margins, Montréal, QC
2017 - “20th Anniversary” Programme de musique française au Relais Mont Royal. Montréal, QC
2012 - “Here on the Edge” featuring contemporary women composers. Victoria, BC
- “Gala concert” Burgos International Music Festival. Burgos, Spain
2011 - “Music & Munch” Shostakovich, Pergolesi, Pärt, Silvia Rickard, Icelandic Folk, Gershwin. Victoria, Pender Island, B.C
Chamber Ensembles
2015-2020 Wôtet Ensemble (Classical piano and string trio/quartet/quintet). Montréal, QC
2015 Écouter Ensemble (Classical, Tango, Contemporary) 3rd Life Studio. Somerville,
Massachusetts, and University of Toronto, Walter Hall. Toronto, ON
2011-Present La Tour Prisme Music School Montréal, QC
- Founder, cello instructor
1999-2010 The Winks Vancouver, BC/Montréal, QC
Original songs and compositions (cello/voice/effects) in collaboration with Todd Macdonald (mandolin/ voice/effects) Baroque Punk/Experimental Pop
2007 -North American tour (63 shows)
2006 -Canada tour BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC
2005 - Australia tour Sydney, Canberra, Mildura, Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Melbourne, Adelaide, Woolloongong
-Canada tour BC, QC, ON, BC, AB, SK, MB, BC
2004 -USA tour. Seattle, WA. Portland, OR. San José, SF, Sacramento, San Luis Obispo, LA, San Diego, California
The Winks Discography
2010 - Twilights (Oh! Records/Castle in the Clouds)
2007 - Chorus Girls (Flying Rhino records)
2006 - Birthday Party (Ache records/Canada council for the Arts)
2005 - The Winks + Tights Split (Drip Audio/Universal)
2004 - Slippers & Parasol (Swim Slowly records)
2003 - Live at the CBC
2002 - The Human Tapes
- Slicing Esophagus
- Imago, Story of a Boy (sound track)
2000 - Free Falling Tool Box
Selected Session Musician Discography
2023 Prannay Sastry album (in progress). New York City
2018 “Museum States” by Julien Beillard. Toronto, ON
2015 “Laws of Otherhood” by Craven Empires recorded at Hotel2Tango. Montreal, QC
2013 “Entropy or The Arrow of Time” recorded at McGill University experimental film by Damaris Baker (Norman Mclaren Animation Award)
2010 CBC Studios film recording: music by Christian Thomas with the MWSO
2005-2007 Secret Mommy: “Very Rec”, “Plays” Ache Records
2005 The New Pornographers: Twin Cinema Matador Records
1994 Raffi: Banana Phone Troubadour Music