Just A Note

Based out of Tiotia:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal, Christine ML Lee is a composer, playwright and poet interested in the intersection between music, movement and storytelling. After finishing her last year as the Choir composer-in-residence at the University of Montreal, she completed the Songwriting Workshop at Berklee College of Music in Boston. One of her latest work, Bloom, is a choir composition for which she wrote the music and lyrics, and was premiered by the Choeur du Brouhaha. Christine works with dance and spoken word and her music has been performed at Montreal Festival Quartiers Danses and in Montreal Botanical Gardens. Poet and writer, she has contributed several articles for the music magazine La Scena Musicale. Alumna of Nightwood Theatre’s Young Innovators Unit 2020-2021, Christine is currently working on a musical tentatively titled, "Just a Note", supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Playwright’s Workshop Montreal. Her video poem Holding Waterways premiered at the Festival St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe 2021. Christine is serving on the Board of Directors for the Quebec Writers’ Federation. 

Sophie Gee is a director of mostly new creations which she presents under the name Nervous Hunter. Her interdisciplinary performance Lévriers (MAI, Montréal, arts interculturels), was part of the 2019/2020 season of the National Arts Centre. She is an artist in residence at Théâtre Aux Écuries where she will create her next piece, Bonnes Bonnes. Sophie is a graduate of the National Theatre School’s directing programme. She aims to make good work and not hurt the earth too much.

Kayo Yasuhara learned theatre in University in Japan, and studied many different types of theatre such as Shakespeare, Broadway musical and Japanese traditional type theatre, like Kyo-gen, Kabuki. 

Once arrived in Montreal, she shifted her focus on Japanese traditional dance, such as Kagura, folk dance, and geisha dance. She performs with a Japanese drum group on the Japanese drum. Kayo has also performed Japanese folk music with shamisen as a solo act.

Since 2010, Kayo has acted in commercials as principal, and has acted roles in dramas for multi media and TV. In 2016, she created and performed 'OKUNI', a theatrical dance and music project focused on the history of the founder of Kabuki theatre(Japanese traditional theatre), at Studio 303. It was performed again at the Maison de la Culture Ahuntsic for the Festival Accès Asie 2019.

Expressive, sincere, and ardent… Alyssa Yeung is an explosion of colour on stage! Based in Montreal, Quebec, this soprano singer’s repertoire ranges from Baroque music, to Romantic lieder, to the newest pop hits. In June 2022, Alyssa will obtain their Bachelor’s in voice performance at the McGill’s Schulich School of Music. They have sung in ensembles such as McGill’s Concert Choir, Early Music Ensemble, and opera program. Throughout the years, they’ve acquired experience in the role of Serpina in Mozart’s La Serva Padrona, as the soprano soloist in Schubert’s Mass No. 2, as Charlotte in Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, as the son in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias, and many more. Alyssa is a multifaceted artist who practices other art forms such as theatre, photography, and songwriting. These different facets allow them to learn and expand as a musician. For the 2021 Montreal Fringe Festival, they took part in the project Self-Made/Autofait where they created and performed works on the theme of identity. Alyssa is thrilled to be back in this year’s Fringe Festival workshopping Just A Note.