Lavinia Kell Parker

Lavinia Kell Parker’s use of improvisation with traditional compositional elements has garnered her the New Genre Award from the International Alliance of Women in Music, and top prizes in choral composition including from the ACCC, the New York Treble Singers, Vancouver Bach Choir, and the Ruth Watson Henderson Choral Composition Competition. Her choral works have been performed by elite choirs internationally and over the airwaves with CBC radio and PBS television. She has publications which can be found with Cypress Choral Publishing, ECS Publishing and the CMC. An educator of over 20 years, she has focused on bringing the joy of music to children and is the founder of Coulee Composers, a composition club for children in southern Alberta. Lavinia is an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, New Music LAB member and an Instructor at the University of Lethbridge Conservatory of Music.