Fuse: Music Residency 2026

John de Lancie is an actor, director, producer, writer, educator, sailor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for his iconic portrayal of the omnipotent Q across multiple Star Trek series, including The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Lower Decks, Picard, and Strange New Worlds. He also appeared as Q in Star Trek: The Game Show and Star Trek: Borg, co-wrote the novel I, Q with Peter David, and narrated several Star Trek audiobook adaptations, including Q-in-Law (with Majel Barrett Roddenberry) and Dark Mirror. Outside of Star Trek, de Lancie is widely recognized for voicing Discord, a character inspired by Q, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (2010–2019).

His television credits include recurring roles as Colonel Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), Donald Margolis in Breaking Bad (2008–2013), and Donald Finley in the revival series episode “The Gun.” In 1996, he co-founded Alien Voices with Leonard Nimoy and Nat Segaloff, producing a series of science fiction audio dramas, including the popular Spock vs. Q recordings, as well as televised specials for the Sci-Fi Channel. He has also appeared in concert settings, co-hosting Star Trek: The Music with Robert Picardo in 2008 and 2010, celebrating music from all eras of the franchise.

Keaton is a multi-disciplinary acrobat and physical theater performer whose work has taken them around the globe. They have performed with acclaimed companies including C!RCA, Broadway’s Water For Elephants, and 7 Fingers. Raised in the circus, Keaton developed an early love for chaos, community, and the creative freedom that thrives in collaborative art-making. When not on stage, Keaton can often be found at the pottery wheel, happily covered in clay, mud seems to be their natural state.Keaton extends deep love and gratitude to their family, Jessica, Mike, Terry, Mary, Eliana, Wyndon, Kellin, Daniel, and Caroline. Without their unwavering support, Keaton jokes they’d still be stuck in the mud... literally.

Bridie Hooper is an award-winning Australian artist and maker who champions circus within multidisciplinary and contemporary performance contexts. 
Her work reveals multi-faceted perspectives on hope, connection, catharsis and mortality, navigating universal themes through deeply personal works that challenge form, context and performer/audience relationship. Intersecting ritual, endurance and the body's potential, her performances affirm and celebrate the intricate human psyche.

Bridie’s practice is centered in circus and physical performance, but places huge value on working collaboratively with multidisciplinary forms including sound art, visual art, theatre, and participatory performance to extend, challenge and reframe her work. These engagements are built on a mutual drive to find new ways to create transformative live art experiences for audiences across theatres, galleries and public space.

Image by Billie Wilson Coffey

Isabella Luisa Diaz is the co-director of Company 29, a contemporary circus collective. They were born in Chicago, Illinois where from a young age, they found a joy for movement and a hankering for heights. They spent their youth competing in gymnastics and studying dance, continuing on at Western Michigan University and the Joffrey Ballet School. In 2016 they joined Pilobolus Dance Theatre as a part of their main company and toured around the world for 4 years. In 2021, they began working with The 7 Fingers contemporary circus and was part of the creation for the show ‘Dear San Francisco’ and the Broadway musical ‘Water for Elephants’. They have held various roles with US-based circuses such as Shoestring Circus and Midnight Circus, including acrobat, musician, guest director, and co-composer.  Isabella is a collector of hobbies, lover of books and a fiend for a good fun fact. They are very excited to be working with the Fuse team at the Banff centre this season.

A passionate communicator, Daniel brings clarity and meaning to the concert hall, fostering deep connections between audiences and performers. Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser is concurrently the Principal Youth Conductor and Creative Partner of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Principal Education Conductor and Community Ambassador of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador of Symphony Nova Scotia, and Resident Conductor of Engagement and Education of the San Francisco Symphony.

He served as Assistant Conductor of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony and Associate Conductor of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. Daniel has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and was Cover Conductor with the Washington National Opera in 2020.

In the 2021 Season Daniel will debut with the Carnegie Hall Link-Up Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the Regina Symphony Orchestra, the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Opera Company.

Daniel is the host of Canadian Broadcasting Company’s nationally broadcast weekly radio show Centrestage.

He was also the subject of an award-winning, full-length Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary called Disruptor Conductor, focusing on his concerts for Neurodiverse, Prison, African Diaspora and LGBTQ2S+ populations.

Daniel earned his Bachelors in Music Performance and Education from the University of Calgary, and his Master of Philosophy in Performance from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

Composer Nick DiBerardino welds the weird machinery of music’s past to the post-genre present, crafting whimsical and thought-provoking sonic stories for our time. His inspirations span science, literature, and everyday life — from reef-saving coral research and Da Vinci’s failed flying machines to his morning coffee and favorite episodes of Star Trek. A Rhodes Scholar, he has received commissions from leading artists and institutions including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Sandbox Percussion, PRISM Quartet, New College Choir, Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, and Star Trek’s John de Lancie. Nick is Provost and Dean of the Conservatory at Curtis Institute of Music, where he directs the Curtis New Music Ensemble and holds the Milton L. Rock Chair in Composition Studies. He also serves as a composition faculty member and program coordinator at the Tanglewood Music Center. He holds degrees from Oxford, Yale, Curtis, and Princeton.