Photo de Sarah albu

Sarah Albu

Concerts par articles
Concerts par articles

Sarah Albu is an experimental soprano and singer as well as a performer-creator.

Her background in theater and her obsession with science fiction fuel eccentric and comically dark imaginary worlds. She has been a guest artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada's National Arts Centre, the Koumaria Residency in Greece, and international concert series and festivals in Canada, Europe, the U.S. and Mexico.

Active as a soloist in new/experimental music, 20th-century music and free improvisation, she can be discovered in many contexts, from Balkan music and 15th-century polyphony to film and video games, noise music and psychedelic rock. Her first solo album was released independently in 2013. She is a founding member of the experimental vocal collective Phth, and frequently collaborates with artists working in video, installation, textile art, contemporary dance and digital art. She can be heard collaborating on several recordings with various artists. In 2023, her album “According to the Moon” was released, featuring the complete corpus of vocal works by Canadian composer Gayle Young.

She has premiered many works and contemporary opera roles by numerous composers, including James O'Callaghan, Gabriel Dharmoo, Gayle Young, Patrick Saint-Denis, Keiko Devaux, Charles Quevillon and Tedd Robinson/Ten Gates Dancing, Snežana Nešić, Sam Shalabi, Will Eizlini, Symon Henry, and Rita Ueda, among others. She performs as soloist with ensembles such as Ensemble Paramirabo, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal, No Hay Banda, Architek percussion, Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra and collectif9.

She is the voice of all the characters in the six-part video installation The Garden of a Former House Turned Museum by interdisciplinary duo Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau. She is also involved in the project as a dancer and actor, and as a consultant during the composition and writing process. She studied in David Helbich and Jennifer Walshe's Composer-Performer course at the Darmstadt Summer Course and Festival for New Music in Germany, where she presented her modular, participatory work FutureMoves. She then toured the project in the Nordic countries.

She holds two BFA degrees in Theatre and Performance (Music) from Concordia University and an MMus from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands.

An avid knitter and folk dancer, her recent work explores the effects of rapidly developing technology on our bodies and lives through a mixture of curiosity and nostalgia.

Oeuvres par compositeur

Multimedias and news

PRODUCTIONS SUPERMUSIQUE | VIDÉO ÉMERAUDE #5