Music Composition & Performance

Performance Experience

• Musician and composer for over 40 years, specializing in Renaissance and folk music, as well as modern compositions.
• Play all flutes and recorders, bass viola da gamba, and basic guitar. Teach recorder and flute.
• Music Director for Sunshine Coast Community Shakespeare Project; sing, play recorders, flute, and viola da gamba.
• Play in the Suncoast Viol Consort lead by Sarah Tippett Poon, Sechelt, BC.
• Sing in many choirs, currently including Suncoast Phoenix Community Choir, the Coast Messiah Choir, and the Coast Musical Theatre productions of Pirates of Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
• Produced the 2024 Messiah Singalong at St John’s. Sechelt BC.
• Recently I sung in MOTET Assumption Project, Pacifica Singers, Gallery Singers, Vivaldi Chamber Choir, & Capilano University Festival Chorus, Vancouver, BC. (More choirs below.)
• Founded and lead four madrigal ensembles including Duck Soup (Seattle), The Ultrasounds (Seattle), The QuasiModals (Vancouver), and the RenFriends Renaissance Consort (Sunshine Coast).
• Perform in concerts, at weddings, funerals, church services, malls, parties, dances, street corners, Fort Nisqually Living History Museum, and even up a tree.
• Performed in folk band Red Currant Jam, playing Celtic dance tunes and jazz standards. Roberts Creek, BC, ’20-22
• Composed and performed score for “Just So and Other Stories,” Seattle Children’s Theatre, ’94.
• Played viola da gamba for English Country Dancers, in folk band “Knives & Forks,” Seattle, 1990s.
• Taught rounds singing workshops at the Northwest Folklife Festival, ’90-’91
• Founded Twelfth Night performing Renaissance Quartet. Washington DC, ’85-86.

Music Work Experience

• Sound Designer, Music Director, and Composer for Theatrical and Film Productions
• Salesperson, Dusty Strings Folk Music Store and Instrument Builders, Seattle WA, ’87-88

Music Education

• All-City Elementary Recorder Ensemble, Toronto, ’74.
• Courtenay Youth Music Camp, summer ’78. Studied flute and choral music.
• Vancouver Academy of Music, ’79. Flute private lessons.
• B.A. in Music (Composition, Chamber Music – flutes, recorders). Studied composition with Vivian Fine and chamber music with Maxine Neuman. Minor in English Drama (Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama). Bennington College ’84.
  • Junior Year Abroad: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford UK. Sang in Oriel College & St Catherine’s College Chapel Choirs.
  • Internship: Assistant to Composer Hildegard Westerkamp, scoring a National Film Board of Canada documentary “This Borrowed Land.”
  • Senior Concert Recital
• Masters of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) degree, specializing in Music Librarianship and searching Online Databases. Catholic University of America, ’86
• Amherst Early Music Workshop. Studied Renaissance flute with Ruth Cunningham, and choral singing with Paul Elliott. ’85
• Viol lessons with Tina Chancey, Arlington, VA, ’85-86
• Port Townsend Early Music Workshop, ’87 & ’98
• Voice classes with Kim Scanlon, Seattle, ’91-93
• San Francisco Early Music Workshop with William Mahrt, ’95
• Film Scoring I with composer Hummie Mann, Pacific Northwest Film Music, ’02.
• Tallis Scholars Summer School USA with Peter Philips, Seattle, ’11 & ’13.
• Voice lessons with Lorraine Reinhardt, Burnaby, BC ’18.
• Viol lessons with Sarah Poon, Gibsons BC, since ’23
• Canadian Renaissance Summer Schools, Ontario and BC, ’24

Selected Compositions

• The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (Choral, SAB). Poem by A. E. Housman. Music and video by Lise Kreps. Performed by the Ultrasounds.
• Dreams’ Journey. Cycle of six songs with flute, recorder and piano accompaniment. Poems by Lise Kreps, Anon (15th C), William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Matsuo Basho, Langston Hughes. Music by Lise Kreps.
• Aqua Coelis. “Musique Concrete” composition for cello, percussion, and field-recorded sounds of water, ice, insects and birds. Music by Lise Kreps.
• Ridiculous little ditties, like I Remember The Paperless Office (I also wrote the lyrics)

Selected Performances

• Thanksgiving Eve, by Bob Franke. Voice, flute, photos & video by Lise Kreps. Guitar, bass, recording by John Lyon.
• Fyer Fyer, madrigal by Thomas Morley. Performed by the The QuasiModals.
• Though Amaryllis Dance in Green, a wildly polyphonic madrigal by William Byrd. Performed by the The QuasiModals.
• Spem in Alium, motet by Thomas Tallis. Performed by The Tallis Scholars Summer School USA, ’11. 40 independent parts, in 8 choirs of 5 voices each; I sang the middle part in Choir 8.
• Finlandia/This is My Song Words by Lloyd Stone, music by Jean Sibelius. Performed by The Ultrasounds. Photography and video by Lise Kreps. 
• Hallelujah (Psalm 146) motet by Salamone Rossi (in Hebrew). Performed by the Ultrasounds.
• Jouissance Vous Donneray 16th C. French dance by Sermisy, performed on Renaissance flute by Lise, in Renaissance costume (video; we dressed up for the Art History Challenge.)
• Eons Ago Blue, by Bob Dorough. Performed by the International Early Music & Furniture Moving Society. (I play alto/top recorder.)
• Beautiful Barmaid Irish tune set, performed by folk band Red Currant Jam at the Sechelt Farmer’s Market.

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