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BEVERLY DOBRINSKY Vocalist, composer, and teacher of voice and Kodaly musicianship, Beverly received her Bmus from UBC in 1986. She directed the HUNGRY GHOSTS, a contemporary chamber ensemble,1983·1986 and RAZOM SESTRE, a women’s Balkan ensemble, 1990·91. In 1991, inspired by the centenary of Ukrainian immigration to Canada, she founded ZEELLIA, creating a musical means to express her Ukrainian·Canadian roots. Over the past 5 years , she has spent summers in rural areas of the prairies collecting songs from the sons and daughters of the first wave of Ukrainian pioneer immigrants. ZEELLIA performs some of these songs and Beverly composes new music based on this research and collection. In addition to performing with and managing ZEELLIA, she currently directs 2 local choirs, and teaches private voice and Kodaly musicianship classes. A native of Winnipeg, she has made her home in Vancouver, B.C. for the past 25 years. CARMEN ROSEN Singer, visual artist, costume and giant puppet designer, celebration artist and mother of three, Carmen has been active in the Vancouver arts community for the past twenty years. Significant achievements include founding MORTAL COIL Performance Society and creating, booking, and performing shows for thousands all over North America; singing, recording and touring internationally with ELEKTRA Women's Choir; singing, recording, and touring women's folk music with ZEELLIA; creating Renfrew Ravine Sanctuary Park with a stone mosaic pathway; and creating community celebrations for the Renfrew·Collingwood neighbourhood. Currently she is working with her neighbourhood to create the Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival celebrating the ravine, nature, community, harvest, and the Asian Mid·Autumn festival. BESSIE WAPP Musician, actor, designer, and stilt performer Bessie Wapp has been singing with ZEELLIA since 1995. Bessie studied visual art at ECCAD, and music at Vancouver Community College and Selkirk College in Nelson, BC. Since 1993 she's been a co·artistic director of MORTAL COIL Performance Society, with whom she creates and tours theatre for young audiences across North America. She's been nominated for 2 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards and has performed and designed for CARAVAN FARM THEATRE, TOUCHSTONE, RADIX, RUBY SLIPPERS, VANCOUVER MOVING THEATRE, and PUBLIC DREAMS. In 1999 Bessie performed new vocal works commissioned for the Songbird Project and then travelled to Lithuania to research the music of her maternal ancestors. She is currently arranging this music for ZEELLIA to perform and record. ALISON JENKINS Born into a music·loving family, Alison grew up listening to recordings of jazz, classical and popular music. A self·taught accordionist and clarinet player, and accomplished vocalist, Alison began working as a professional musician in 1998 when she joined the FLYING FOLK ARMY, a group of musicians and social activists. In the winter of 1999, she was one of the founding members of the LEAKY HEAVEN CIRCUS, a multi·generational theatre troupe of actors, musicians and acrobats, which is now in its third season. Alison so enjoyed combining music and theatre that she has gone on to work with CIRQUE POULE, an all female clown troupe, and appeared in CHEMAINUS THEATRE’s productions of ‘LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE’ and ‘ IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’, serving both as musical director, and performer. Alison currently performs with the FLYING FOLK ARMY, now working on its second album, as well as THE BEDROOM PARROTS, an eclectic chamber trio, the Latin pop band CANDELARIA, and ZEELLIA. RUSSELL SHOLBERG A recent graduate of the Fine Arts program at SFU, in composition, and electronic music, Russell has been studying upright bass with Torben Oxbol and David Brown. Although he prefers to work with acoustic groups in the jazz and folk genres, he has worked with a number of electric pop groups, including a short stint with BIF NAKED. As a freelance player, Russell records and performs with the Vancouver bands, the FLYING FOLK ARMY, THE BEDROOM PARROTS, and ZEELLIA, as well as being involved with an ongoing theatre/dance project with SANTA ALOI. Some of Russell’s music has found its way onto film, including DISNEY’S ‘BLANK CHECK’ and , more recently, an independently distributed short entitled ’THANKS FOR COMING.’ AMELIA ROSE SLOBOGEAN Currently enrolled in the Music program at Vancouver Community College, Amelia began her violin studies at the age of 5. She studied privately with Kenneth Yunke in Vancouver for 8 years. In 1998 she co·founded the raucous, high energy Celtic bluegrass band, FISHHEAD STEW. Based in Whitehorse, Yukon, they toured extensively over the next 5 years playing music festivals across Canada, Alaska and Scotland. Since quitting the band in 2002, Amelia has delved into other musical genres and has recently returned from a 3 month European tour where she studied and researched gypsy music. She is currently studying with Romanian gypsy violinist Leche Cercel and playing with her newly formed gypsy jazz swing trio. In the spring of 2004, she recorded on ZEELLIA’s second album, WILLOW BRIDGE, and looks forward to continuing to play with ZEELLIA as it gives her an opportunity to get back in touch with her Ukrainian· Canadian roots and love for Slavic music. PERFORMANCES 2004 Lincoln Centre Out of Doors Festival, NY Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON Haywood Bandstand, Vancouver, BC Voices of Strathcona, Vancouver, BC Being Caribou, NFB recording 2003 Filberg Festival, Comox, BC Global Village interview/ CBC Radio Terry Fox Theatre/Port Coquitlam, BC 2002 Dance Allsorts, Vancouver, BC CBC Radio One/ This Morning with Sheila Rogers Starbelly Jam Music Festival, Crawford, BC Ness Creek Music Festival, Big River, Saskatchewan 2001 Mayworks Festival, Vancouver, BC Vancouver Sun Community Concert Westcoast Sacred Music Festival Winter Solstice Celebration, Emily Carr College 2000 Festival Vancouver Mission Folk Festival, Mission, BC Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC Vancouver Folk Festival Juan de Fuca Festival, Port Angeles, WA Vancouver Sun Community Concert Islands spring tour: Duncan, Victoria, Gabriola,& Mayne Islands 1999 Kootenays fall tour: Grand Forks, Rossland, Kaslo, Creston, Nelson, and Silverton, BC Manitoba summer tour: Winnipeg, and the Canadian National Ukrainian Festival, Dauphin Vancouver Folk Festival Summer Solstice concerts with CHOR LEONE, Vancouver and Saltspring Island, BC A Shared Heritage, concert with TUMBALALAIKA, Vancouver,BC 1998 Victoria Folkfest Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Burnaby, BC Juan de Fuca Festival, Port Angeles, Washington World Next Door Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba CD Release Concert, Vancouver |
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