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Stephanie Lake Company is one of Australia’s most celebrated and prolific dance companies. Known for its gutsy, original choreographic style and striking visual aesthetic, Stephanie Lake Company’s highly acclaimed works including The Chronicles, Manifesto and Colossus have been performed across Australia and toured to over sixteen countries worldwide to some of the world’s most prestigious theatres.

Founded in 2014 and based in Melbourne (Naarm), the company brings together an extraordinary collection of diverse dancers and creative collaborators attracting sold-out audiences and five star reviews nationally and internationally. SLC’s works are renowned for their explosive physicality, poetic imagery and razor-sharp precision.
Stephanie Lake Company also collaborates across theatre, film, music video, opera and visual art and has created mass-scale public performances involving thousands of community participants of all ages and backgrounds.

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Stephanie Lake - Artistic Director

Nicole Muscat - Lead Rehearsal Director

Sarah McCrorie - Rehearsal Director

Beth Raywood Cross - Executive Producer

Emily O’Brien - Production Manager

Robert Larsen - Technical Manager

Robin Fox - Composer

Harriet Oxley - Costume Designer

Bosco Shaw - Lighting Designer

Stephanie Lake Company

Artistic Director: Stephanie Lake
Executive Producer: Beth Raywood Cross
Production Manager: Lisa Osborn
Company Administrator: Annabel Shaw
Financial Manager: Bree Nurse
North American Agent: Cathy Pruzan
Board: Rachael Azzopardi (Interim Chair), Trish Mikhael (Treasurer), Margaret Parker, Stephanie Lake

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Bosco is a lighting and set/space designer and builder. His interest is in work that involves bodies and movement, how light feeds across, and can influence a space. In 2016 he co-founded ADDITIVE, a collaborative lighting design company. He is the recipient of 3 Green Room awards for visual design. He has worked with large contemporary dance companies, intimate projects and individual artists, theatre works as well as designing and installing lighting for public spaces
Projects include; Antony Hamilton - Meeting. Tim Darbyshire - More or Less Concrete. Dance North - Attractor. Chunky Move - It Cannot Be Stopped, Token Armies, 4/4. All The Queens Men - Congress, Coming Back out Ball, Playdate. Lucy Guerin Inc. - Pendulum. Stephanie Lake - Double Blind, Replica, Colossus, Manifesto, The Chronicles. The Australian Ballet - Circle Electric. Luke George - Erotic Dance, Asia TOPA - XO State, Mel Lane - Nightdance, Arkadia. Mona Foma - Faux Mo 2018/2019/2020. Dark Mofo - Night Mass 2018. Zoe Barry - The Nervous Atmosphere. Alex Harrison/Paea Leach - The Difficult Comedown.

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Harriet, based in Melbourne, Australia, designs and creates costumes for dance, opera, musicals and theatre. She has designed for contemporary dance companies and artists across Australia such as Stephanie Lake Company, Lucy Guerin Inc, Sydney Dance Company, Chunky Move, and Dancenorth. She has designed several productions for Victorian Opera, winning a Green Room Award for one of her designs for VO in 2011. She has also designed musicals and circus/ physical theatre performances, contemporary performances and theatre pieces.

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Blending the raw fire of blues guitar with the polish and punch of modern pop, Jimi is quickly establishing herself as one of the most compelling new voices in contemporary music. A gifted guitarist and songwriter, she channels the soul and grit of her influences into a sound that feels both timeless and forward-leaning.

With over 600,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok, Jimi has cultivated a dedicated audience drawn to her electrifying playing, magnetic personality, and genre-defying songwriting. Fans come for the riffs and stay for the songs — music that connects across generations with its emotional depth and infectious hooks.

Jimi has already proven her ability to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some of music’s greats. She’s shared the stage with The Black Crowes, Def Leppard, blues phenom Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and rising country star Cameron Whitcomb, while also benefiting from the guidance of a mentorship with Bryan Adams.

Poised at the intersection of artistry and momentum, Jimi is more than an artist on the rise — she’s building a movement. With her catalog ready to launch and her audience growing daily, Jimi stands ready to bring her unique sound from the screen to the stage and beyond.

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Pouya is a five-time Juno-nominated engineer, producer, musician, and composer based in Toronto, Ontario. He holds a Master’s degree in Sound Recording from McGill University, where he studied with Richard King and George Massenburg. With a background in performance and composition, Pouya approaches recording as both a technical and deeply artistic practice, viewing the studio as a space where creative ideas and performances can unfold naturally.

He works across acoustic, jazz, classical, and electronic music. He is the founder of Ladom Ensemble, a quartet of accordion, cello, percussion, and piano that has toured extensively across Canada and released three award-winning albums. He is also the creator of MOJ, an electronic project blending acoustic and electronic sounds through an Iranian and experimental lens. For over a decade, Pouya has been a recording engineer at the Royal Conservatory of Music. He has also worked with leading Canadian orchestras.

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Joe Kelly has been part of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as the Assistant Principal Timpanist/Section percussionist since 2018. Before that he was a member of the percussion section at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. Kelly has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Malaysia Philharmonic, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Fort Worth Symphony. Joe also holds the position of Percussion Coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and is on Faculty at the University of Toronto.

In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Kelly was selected to be a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, where he performed orchestral and chamber works and was the soloist in Evan Antonellis’s Multiple Histories. In 2014, Joe joined the Lucerne Festival Academy and toured Europe under the direction of Matthias Pintscher, performing works by Lachenmann, Berio, and Pintscher. When he returned to Lucerne in 2015 as a member of the Academy, he was also invited to perform as an Alumni Guest at the Tanglewood Festival during its Festival of Contemporary Music. The following summer, Joseph was invited to be the solo percussionist of the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble. This included being the resident ensemble for a composer workshop run by Wolfgang Rihm, as well as the set group for a large commissioning project from the festival. The Alumni Ensemble gave 21 world premières during the 2016 Lucerne Festival.

Mr. Kelly received his bachelor’s degree in percussion performance and master’s degree in orchestral performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a recipient of the Elizabeth Beineke Scholarship and the Outreach Award at the 2015 Commencement. He was awarded the 2012 Kerope Zildjian Concert Percussion Scholarship. Mr. Kelly holds a professional diploma in orchestral studies from Roosevelt University and was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Former teachers include Christopher Lamb, Duncan Patton, She-e Wu, Erik Charlston, Vadim Karpinos, and Ed Harrison.

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Winner of a Naumburg International Violin Competition Prize and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, featured in the Smithsonian Museum for African-American History, and as New York Times “New Yorker of the Year,” Ms. Hall-Tompkins is a violin soloist entrepreneur appearing with numerous orchestras including St. Louis, Baltimore, Dallas and Oakland, conductors Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart and Michael Morgan, as featured artist in residence with the Cincinnati Symphony and New York City’s WQXR and on Broadway as "Fiddler"/Violin Soloist of the Grammy and Tony-nominated production of Fiddler on the Roof. A collaboration with 5-time Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal features a new violin concerto, Body in Motion, written for her. The collaboration also features celebrated conductor Leonard Slatkin; Ms. Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin performed the Sold-Out world premiere with the St. Louis Symphony to critical acclaim: “The world premiere was a treat even by the rarified standards of world premieres…masterful… “ Kelly Hall-Tompkins and Maestro Slatkin also gave the European premiere with the Orquesta of Gran Canaria, Spain this spring. As the first soloist to perform the Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto after the dedicatée, Kelly Hall-Tompkins has been a champion of the work in 25 performances so far, including the Lucerne Festival Premiere in Switzerland and a tour across the Netherlands. The first American artist to perform in China after the pandemic, Ms. Hall-Tompkins received a Chinese “Rare Talent Visa” to perform as soloist with the Shanghai Symphony. As founder of Music Kitchen-Food for the Soul, Kelly Hall-Tompkins is a pioneer of social justice, bringing top artists in over 100 concerts coast to coast in homeless shelters and presenting the World Premiere of Forgotten Voices Song Cycle in Association with Carnegie Hall. Ms. Hall-Tompkins is also a published author contributor to Music and Human Rights on Routledge Press.

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Demarre McGill is a celebrated flutist known for his lyrical expressiveness and technical mastery. Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, he has performed as soloist with top orchestras including the Philadelphia, Seattle, and San Francisco Symphonies. He currently serves as Principal Flute of the Seattle Symphony.

Demarre McGill’s 2026–27 season features a performance of Billy Childs’s double concerto, A More Perfect Union, with his brother Anthony McGill and the New World Symphony. Additional highlights include engagements in Tahoe, Chicago, and Cincinnati, as well as performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

A founding member of the Myriad Trio and McGill/McHale Trio, he champions inclusivity in classical music. McGill studied at Curtis and Juilliard and is a Yamaha Performing Artist.

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Stockholm Chamber Brass was founded in 1988 by five young Swedish musicians to play chamber music together. In 1988, with funding from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, SCB decided to travel to Narbonne, France, to perform at the International Competition for Brass Quintets. The group won 1st Prize and began its over 35 year career as one of the world’s leading Brass Ensembles.

SCB are committed to developing new and original repertoire for brass quintet and have commissioned over 50 compositions, many of which have gone on to become the most frequently performed original works for brass quintet around the world.

To date, SCB has recorded 6 critically acclaimed CDs including the classics of the quintet genre, a selection of their commissions and their most recent album THEN, a collection of renaissance songs and dances. The American Record Guide wrote of the album CLOCKWORKS, “I cannot imagine that a better brass quintet has ever existed.”

SCB regularly perform around the world, playing in major festivals such as the Bad Kissingen Sommer and Schleswig-Holstein Festival. They are passionate educators and regularly give masterclasses at leading music conservatoires as well as running their own Stockholm Chamber Brass Academy.

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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity announces the Fall-Winter lineup of Banff Centre Presents, a season of international touring artists and Canadian favourites, featuring Banff Centre alumnus and acclaimed trumpet player Jens Lindemann, JUNO Award-winning country artist William Prince, post-post-modern diva Meow Meow on her Festive Feline tour, and more. Tickets for all performances are on sale now!

BANFF, AB, SEPTEMBER 10, 2026 – Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity invites audiences to a season of bold performances in the Fall-Winter lineup of Banff Centre Presents, spanning live music, dance, multimedia storytelling, cabaret performance art, and a globally acclaimed Hamlet. Running from October 2026 through January 2027, Banff Centre Presents brings eight events to the Bow Valley, promising to challenge viewers' expectations and see the familiar through a different lens, while leading with fun, hope, and world-class entertainment.

Banff Centre’s longstanding commitment as a place for boundary-pushing artistry extends to the public stage with Banff Centre Presents—the home for live performances by local favourites and international hits in the Bow Valley and Banff National Park, taking place in Banff Centre venues like the Jenny Belzberg Theatre, Margaret Greenham Theatre, and CLVB ’33.

This season, each performance takes something recognizable, whether it be the trumpet, rock ‘n’ roll, dance, country songs, holiday music, or a classic play, and reimagines it for a new stage. The result is a lineup of musicians, dancers, and artists who transform familiar sounds, stories, and traditions, and an opportunity for audiences to experience something in an entirely new way. This season includes the previously announced musicians Jimi (Oct. 11), William Prince (Nov. 20), and Jens Lindemann (Oct. 10). It also includes GRAMMY-nominated Laila Biali (Nov. 30), Taiwanese dance legend Hung Dance’s BIRDY (Nov. 28), Australia’s darling cabaret performer Meow Meow (Dec. 16), and theatre productions Rick Miller’s BOOM X (Dec. 10) and Peru’s Teatro La Plaza’s Hamlet (Jan. 29).

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Truly great artists have a way of making us look at something we thought we already knew and view it with fresh eyes. This season of Banff Centre Presents, artists not only invite us to their performance but also to be surprised by their art, whether it’s music, dance, or theatre.

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Josephine Ridge, Executive Director, Arts of Banff Centre

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This Fall-Winter 2026 welcomes an undeniable diversity of form, artistry, and ideas from around the world and around the corner to Banff and the Bow Valley—a fitting landscape as dramatic and engaging as the works onstage. The new and familiar voices that audiences are set to experience invite connection, joy, and ultimately help us understand ourselves—and one another—better. This season is an invitation to revel and celebrate live performances. Stepping into the theatre is stepping into relationship with community and a chance to experience together—we can’t wait to welcome you in.

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Joshua Dalledonne, Director, Banff Centre Presents

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In addition to this Banff Centre Presents lineup, there are many other free and ticketed concerts and events throughout the Fall-Winter season, giving audiences the chance to experience shows from extraordinary artists during our music, theatre, literary, visual, and Indigenous arts programs and residencies. Stay tuned for more details.

A full lineup of the Banff Centre Presents Fall-Winter season is available below. Tickets for all performances officially go on sale on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

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Jens Lindemann: A Tribute to the Trumpet Greats
Saturday, October 10 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre 

Hailed as one of the most celebrated artists in the trumpet’s history, Jens Lindemann has played in every major concert venue in the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonics of New York, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Moscow, and Tokyo, and even the Great Wall of China.

Lindemann has a deep connection with Banff Centre, having trained and performed here. This Fall, he returns to celebrate the trumpet greats and give Bow Valley audiences a preview of his newest work. Joined by a wildly talented ensemble of artists, including Dave Pierce (drums), Kristian Alexandrov (keys), Miles Hill (bass), and guest Angela Smart (violin), this performance will consist of three pieces, including a tribute to the instrument’s greats, Oscar Peterson’s Canadiana Suite, and the world-premiere preview of The Rocky Mountain Suite, which he is currently developing in residency at Banff Centre.

Jimi: Bar Stars and Beauty Queens Tour
Sunday, October 11 | 7 p.m.
CLVB ’33

Vancouver's breakout rocker Jimi brings unstoppable guitar chops, powerhouse vocals, and a songwriting style that seamlessly blends blues grit with modern rock swagger to Banff Centre’s CLVB ’33.

Jimi has already proven her ability to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some of music’s greats, sharing the stage with The Black Crowes, Def Leppard, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and Cameron Whitcomb, while earning mentorship from Canadian icon Bryan Adams. Fans come for the riffs and stay for the songs.

William Prince: On Rolls The Wheel Tour
(Limited tickets remain)
Friday, November 20 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre 

The two-time JUNO Award-winning artist has built an exceptional body of work, including performances at the Newport Folk Festival and Canmore Folk Festival, as well as shows at many prestigious theatres.

Audiences can expect an intimate performance featuring William Prince, his guitar, and songs from his new album Further From the Country. The album expands Prince’s sound and sharpens his focus for a collection of songs that leave their mark on listeners for their humanity and potency.

Hung Dance: BIRDY
Saturday, November 28 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre 

This captivating dance performance explores the freedom and limitations within Taiwan's communities. Internationally renowned Hung Dance choreographer LAI Hung-chung delves into the subtle influences of emotions and historical echoes on social harmony through a blend of societal dynamics and personal narratives. Named after the Chinese character "Hung (翃)," meaning to soar or fly high in the sky, Hung Dance has performed hundreds of shows across five continents at multiple international festivals, including the Avignon Off Festival in France and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the UK.

The performance mixes athletic, precise movements, a stunning visual language, and a dynamic score that blends classic and electronic sounds to create a sonic environment entirely its own.  

Laila Biali: Wintersongs
Wednesday, December 2 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre 

Also deeply connected to Banff Centre, Laila Biali returns to perform works from her 2024 album Wintersongs. During her creative residency in the Leighton Artist Studios, Biali took inspiration from the Rocky Mountains and stunning winter snowfall when composing the album, which earned her a 2025 GRAMMY nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album alongside Brandi Carlile, Elton John, Lady Gaga, Barbara Streisand, and Laufey.

Appealing to jazz, classical, and holiday audiences, the album has received critical acclaim and industry recognition, including a JUNO nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album.

BOOM X
Saturday, December 12 | 7:30 p.m.
Margaret Greenham Theatre 

BOOM X is the second installment of the BOOM Trilogy, exploring music, culture, politics, and major events that shaped Generation X between 1970 and 1995. Called a “marvellous mashup of media, verbatim theatre, jukebox musical and autobiographical confession” by The Globe and Mail and “an immensely entertaining, high-energy magic carpet ride with a real genie for a tour guide,” these “rockumentaries” have been performed for hundreds of audiences.

Using rapid character transformation, live performance, music, video projection, and documentary-style storytelling, Rick Miller takes the audience all the way to 1995, when the internet began to dominate our lives. In as little as 100 minutes, Miller plays over 100 colourful characters from the days of disco, the oil crisis, Watergate, the Cold War, video games, punk rock, the (second) British Invasion, and more. 

Meow Meow: Feline Festive
Wednesday, December 16 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre 

Post-post-modern diva, Meow Meow brings her background in opera, dance, theatre, and crowd-surfing to this high-energy, hilarious, and naughty performance.

Enter the glorious world of International Chanteuse and Comedienne Extraordinaire Meow Meow these holidaze with her unique brand of holiday hilarity and musical mayhem, featuring a band of superb musicians and music ranging from jazzy vintage showbiz to wicked, witty Weimar 1920’s tunes. Stopping in Banff as part of her North American tour, Meow Meow’s Feline Festive will fill you with childhood wonder and rekindle the true spirit of the holidays.

Teatro La Plaza: Hamlet
Friday, January 29 | 7:30 p.m.
Jenny Belzberg Theatre

Eight actors from the Teatro La Plaza retell Hamlet, starting with the play’s famous monologue “To be or not to be...” The Peruvian actors, all living with Down syndrome, weave their own experience into the performance, asking audience members to consider their biases, assumptions, and what “being” means to people who are often excluded from society. The experience is funny, moving, and engaging, encouraging viewers to see the famous work in a completely new light.

Performed with English surtitles, Hamlet has established itself as an international sensation, having performed in 20 countries, 51 cities, and at well-renowned festivals and theatres including Toronto’s Luminato Festival, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, and more.

Tickets for all Fall and Winter programming are currently available at Banff Centre’s Events page. You can also find more information on longstanding events, including the Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival, literary cabarets, and Family ARTventures at Walter Phillips Gallery!

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About Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

Founded in 1933, Banff Centre is a post-secondary institution built upon an extraordinary legacy of excellence in artistic and leadership development. What started as a single course in drama has grown to become a global organization leading in arts, culture, and creative decision-making across dozens of disciplines, from the fine arts to Indigenous Wise Practices. From our home in the stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity aims to move everyone who attends our campus—artists, leaders, thinkers, and audiences—to unleash their creative potential and realize their unique contribution to build an innovative, inspiring future through education, performances, convenings, and public outreach. banffcentre.ca

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We recognize, with deep respect and gratitude, our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. In the spirit of respect and truth, we honour and acknowledge the Banff area, known as “Minihrpa” (translated in Stoney Nakoda as “the waterfalls”) and the Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Îyârhe Nakoda (Stoney Nakoda) – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Goodstoney Nations – as well as the Tsuut’ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Métis Nation of Alberta, Rockyview District 4. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.

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