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T oronto based vocalist, pianist and percussionist Suba Sankaran’s musical career began at an early age studying south Indian classical music with her father, master drummer Trichy Sankaran.She graduated from York University in 1997, where she studied jazz with Carol Welsman, Lisa Martinelli, Bob Mover, Don Thompson, Barry Elmes and Al Henderson, and completed her Master of Arts degree in ethnomusicology in 2002, with a major research paper titled Bobby McFerrin: The Abundance of Vocal Economy. She has studied south Indian classical vocal music with Sankari Krishnan, T. Vishwanathan, K. Subramaniam and N. Ramani, percussion with Glen Velez, Sal Ferreras and Russell Hartenberger, and piano with Casey Sokol and Francine Kay. Suba regularly performs with world music ensembles autorickshaw and Trichy’s Trio and sings a cappella 80’s hits with Retrocity. Suba is in demand as a choral director, arranger, adjudicator and composer and has given numerous workshops to professional and community choirs including Common Thread Community Chorus, ECHO Women’s Choir, St. Stephen’s Youth Choir, and the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Choir. She has directed the following choirs: Wibijazz’n’ (York University), University of Toronto Jazz Ensemble, Pandora’s Vox (Earl Haig SS) and the Royal Conservatory of Music Adult Jazz Choir. Suba has recently composed, recorded, engineered and produced music for radio (Raj Kumari’s Lullaby), theatre (Bombay Black), film (Love’s a Gamble), and for south Indian and modern dance. Sankaran has a sensuous, supple voice...her sense of phrasing, expression and tone are immaculate-Ottawa Citizen Suba has performed widely across Canada, the US, Europe and India with a wide range of artists including Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana (Global Divas), chittraveena player Ravikiran, David Mott, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan, George Koller, Kevin Breit, Maza Meze, award-winning a cappella jazz group Hampton Avenue, and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale where she performed for Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu and Peter Gabriel. She was featured as a soloist for Global Divas, a fundraiser for St. Stephen’s Community House with Jane Bunnett and the Spirits of Havana, which was recorded for broadcast by the CBC. The CBC also presented a feature “Artist Profile” on Suba, on Global Village. Suba won a 2006 Dora Maver Moore Award for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition (Bombay Black) in the Independent Theatre Division
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