Research
Leanne’s research and creative practice spans cross-genre collaboration, experimental and improvised approaches to new music creation, site-specific and environment-responsive performance, community engagement and performance as public practice.
Recent Activities
- Art In The Anthropocene residency guest artist (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Premiere performance of Andrew Balfour’s Notinikew: Stories of Indigenous Soldiers in Winnipeg and Montreal’s Place Des Arts (Montreal New Music Festival)
- Guest artist in Transformation, with Dead of Winter Choir, Andrew Balfour and Hussein Janmohammed
- String Adjudicator in Winnipeg, Edmonton and Nipawin Music Festivals
- Cello guest faculty at UNAM Facultad de Música (Mexico City) and Centro Universitario de Estudios Musicales (Queretaro, MX)
- Performance of Dance Music for All Occasions presented by Neon Venus and Brandon Chamber Players
- Sounding the Wake of a Glacier, graphic score performance and commission from LandMarks150, supported by PIA and Heritage Canada
- YWCA Women of Distinction Award nominee
- World Premiere: Not Seeing Is A Flower concerto for cello & ensemble by Nicole Lizee
- Music for Spaces Immersive performance in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, presented by the Winnipeg Symphony New Music Festival
- Channel Surf – interdisciplinary research platform paddling the Rideau Canal, presented by Project Anywhere
- Solo artist in Portal Zero installation, created by architect Richard Derksen, presented by the Winnipeg Symphony New Music Festival and Storefront Manitoba
- Guest Curator: Groundswell new music series
- World Premiere of Karappo Okesutura 3, with Australian Art Orchestra and composer Necole Lizee (Banff, Toronto)
- Burning Daylight Tour – with songwriter Christine Fellows
- Platz/Falzone/Zacharias – cross-genre full-length studio recording with percussionist/composer Eric Platz (MB) and clarinetist/composer James Falzone (Chicago)
- Solo artist in Blanton Museum of Art’s SoundSpace: Sound Construction (Austin, TX)
- World Premiere recording of Elusive Peace by R. Steiger (Talea Ensemble)
- EarHeartMusic series performance, presented by Roulette – cellist (Brooklyn)
- CityWide: simultaneous one-hour solo cello recitals presented by dozens of professional and amateur cellists in public sites across the city of Winnipeg, presented by the International Cello Festival of Canada
- Featured performer in International Cello Festival of Canada (Winnipeg)
- Cellist on recordings by Christine Fellows, John K Samson, Eric Platz, Australian Art Orchestra