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 Midsummer Night’s Dream; sang, played recorders, flute, and viola da gamba. July ’24
• 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 production of Pirates of Penzance. Co-producer of 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, early ’90s.
• 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. Studied flute.
• 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.

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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