Olivia Shortt

Composer (Museum)

(They/Them: Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation with settler ancestry - canadian & irish) Olivia Shortt is a noisemaker, improviser, composer, video artist, theatre maker, curator, trouble-maker and professional disrupter.

Highlights include performing Raven Chacon’s ‘For Olivia Shortt’ at The Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC) as part of Chacon’s series of solo works 'For Zitkála-Šá' during the 2022 Whitney Biennial; playing at the Lincoln Center (NYC) with the International Contemporary Ensemble; performing in their film debut in Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan’s 2019 film ‘Guest of Honour’; as well as recording an album of Robert Lemay’s music two kilometres underground in the SnoLAB (Neutrino Lab in Sudbury, Canada). Recent projects include a new opera in partnership with Loose Tea Music Theatre (Toronto), a commission for Blueridge Chamber Festival (Vancouver), and a collaborative new work with thirtyminutes (Canada/England). Works created over the last two years include commissions from Long Beach Opera (California), the JACK Quartet (NYC), and Din of Shadows (Toronto).

Shortt was a finalist for the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award as well as awarded and named one of the 2020 Buddies in Bad Times’ Emerging Queer Artists. Shortt was featured in the 2020 Winter edition of Musicworks Magazine. www.olivia-shortt.com @oliviash_rtt (Instagram)