Artemis
Bio
Artemis believes that writing is good, whether it's writing honestly for a large audience of strangers...Writing intimately for a
small but precious audience of one's child, friend, or life partner... Or just distilling one's own thoughts and feelings. "Most
creative moments will only float through our own heads, but that instant of creation gives the artist's heart its reason to
beat. We all have the right to write."
Many know Artemis as the co-creator of SASS the School Alliance of Student Songwriters, founded in January of 2003,
with the help of Dale Russell. What began as her wish to share the love of songwriting with young people in her high school
and to help them express themselves in a safe environment has now become a larger, not-for-profit organization, dedicated
to nurturing musical literacy in young artists. SASS has supported over 25 professional writers and provided free songwriting
training to more than 1,000 students in close to 50 schools a year for the past seven years.
For more information on exciting developments in
these young people's songwriting clubs, visit:
www.sasscanada.com
Excerpts from her first solo project, "More Light" can be heard throughout these pages or by clicking on this link. .
Although she spends many hours a week supervising the SASS Program, Artemis keeps her creative furnace stoked with
session work, co-writing appointments, open-mics. and benefit appearances.
Her first major musical work in l998 was the nine-song, fully-orchestrated musical drama "The Prodigal Son", which she
scored, choreographed and directed with 50 singers and actors in her community. Her brother, John Connors, co-wrote two
of its memorable numbers. This musical's three sold-out shows benefited The Ark Youth Shelter and Hearth Place Cancer
Support Centre in Oshawa, Ontario.
A classically-trained flutist, Artemis has played in four orchestras, with a favourite season on piccolo in the Oshawa
Symphony under former Conductor Winston Webber.
After teaching three years of high school vocal music, Artemis developed an interest in composing.
Now music awakens her at night, calling her to write what she has dreamed, pouring out music like moonlight on her
keyboard.
Between 2001-2003, Artemis took a leave from teaching to write music full-time. Artemis attended writers' workshops in
Toronto and Nashville, as well as travelling to Midem in Cannes, France in January, 2002.
In the fall of 2002 and 2003 Artemis donated six months to organizing benefit concerts for the Sunnybrook Foundation for
Cancer Research, Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre, and the Canadian Diabetes Foundation. Artemis continues to
donate time to organizing community benefit concerts, now mainly for the School Alliance of Student Songwriters.
Artemis is a passionate, adventurous song-writer and composer...An artist who captures what is most moving in life with
colourful waves of sound, her melody-driven works carry an exciting momentum and rich, meaningful lyrics on the
unabashed joys, struggles, and opposing forces of life. She claims fewer certainties and explores more questions every day.
On stage, Artemis not only makes eye contact with everyone in the room, but focuses on exchanging energy.
Whether at battered women's shelter benefits, writers' nights, self-help seminars or in school songwriting workshops,
audiences are moved by the feeling of Artemis's work. Like any songwriter, Artemis strives to...
inhale life...and exhale music.
small but precious audience of one's child, friend, or life partner... Or just distilling one's own thoughts and feelings. "Most
creative moments will only float through our own heads, but that instant of creation gives the artist's heart its reason to
beat. We all have the right to write."
Many know Artemis as the co-creator of SASS the School Alliance of Student Songwriters, founded in January of 2003,
with the help of Dale Russell. What began as her wish to share the love of songwriting with young people in her high school
and to help them express themselves in a safe environment has now become a larger, not-for-profit organization, dedicated
to nurturing musical literacy in young artists. SASS has supported over 25 professional writers and provided free songwriting
training to more than 1,000 students in close to 50 schools a year for the past seven years.
For more information on exciting developments in
these young people's songwriting clubs, visit:
www.sasscanada.com
Excerpts from her first solo project, "More Light" can be heard throughout these pages or by clicking on this link. .
Although she spends many hours a week supervising the SASS Program, Artemis keeps her creative furnace stoked with
session work, co-writing appointments, open-mics. and benefit appearances.
Her first major musical work in l998 was the nine-song, fully-orchestrated musical drama "The Prodigal Son", which she
scored, choreographed and directed with 50 singers and actors in her community. Her brother, John Connors, co-wrote two
of its memorable numbers. This musical's three sold-out shows benefited The Ark Youth Shelter and Hearth Place Cancer
Support Centre in Oshawa, Ontario.
A classically-trained flutist, Artemis has played in four orchestras, with a favourite season on piccolo in the Oshawa
Symphony under former Conductor Winston Webber.
After teaching three years of high school vocal music, Artemis developed an interest in composing.
Now music awakens her at night, calling her to write what she has dreamed, pouring out music like moonlight on her
keyboard.
Between 2001-2003, Artemis took a leave from teaching to write music full-time. Artemis attended writers' workshops in
Toronto and Nashville, as well as travelling to Midem in Cannes, France in January, 2002.
In the fall of 2002 and 2003 Artemis donated six months to organizing benefit concerts for the Sunnybrook Foundation for
Cancer Research, Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre, and the Canadian Diabetes Foundation. Artemis continues to
donate time to organizing community benefit concerts, now mainly for the School Alliance of Student Songwriters.
Artemis is a passionate, adventurous song-writer and composer...An artist who captures what is most moving in life with
colourful waves of sound, her melody-driven works carry an exciting momentum and rich, meaningful lyrics on the
unabashed joys, struggles, and opposing forces of life. She claims fewer certainties and explores more questions every day.
On stage, Artemis not only makes eye contact with everyone in the room, but focuses on exchanging energy.
Whether at battered women's shelter benefits, writers' nights, self-help seminars or in school songwriting workshops,
audiences are moved by the feeling of Artemis's work. Like any songwriter, Artemis strives to...
inhale life...and exhale music.
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