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Anna Bigland-Pritchard

Premium Member Anna Bigland-Pritchard
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Anna Bigland-Pritchard
Victoria
British Columbia
ABP Creative
Artist
Hello 🥰 I'm a multi-genre UK-born vocal artist and Expressive Arts Therapy student living on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen speaking peoples (Victoria BC). Whether performing in a contemporary ambient opera, a baroque oratorio, a Sondheim musical review, vocal looping in a forest, or playing my gentle indie folk songs at a DIY festival, my creative practice often lies at the intersection of ecological care, queer identity, and creative community resilience.

Hats I'm wearing:
🤠Co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective (indie opera collective)
👒2025 BC Culture Days Ambassador
🥳Studying Expressive Arts Therapy at the WHEAT Institute
🌸rose house (ecologically-oriented vocal looping and tender indie-folk project)
🐈Assistant to a cat

Things I do:
➿Performances
🪷Expressive Arts and Eco Mindfulness workshops and retreats
🍎Teach singing and songwriting for classical, folk, indie, jazz
🎶Direct choirs and music direct for performances
🎨Creative "ethical" marketing for arts and environmental organizations

Aspirations:
🎧Record and mix my own music
💸Continue to receive funding for performance art projects
🎥Share my short opera film (created with Gay4Nature), "Green" as widely as possible
🪴Create a cooperative organization and retreat space for teaching and healing artists

Recent projects:
-Forrestorium by Paul Walde (singing in chorus)
-i am beauty by MJ Coomber and Rick Waines (soloist)
-Rest&Resonate (vocal looping sound bath and yoga series)
-Creative Care for Eco-Anxiety: A Choral Collaging Workshop (facilitated as BC Culture Days Ambassador)
-Short film, "Green" (funded by Canada Council)
-Semi-improvised ambient art song and poetry project with Marko Marinic, "For Camosun"
-Looping soundscapes in the forest, for conservation societies, at Impulse Theatre, and with the Play Theatre.

Upcoming projects:
-Project coming in May 2026 (funded by Canada Council, not yet announced)
-Continued involvement with "i am beauty" and "Forrestorium"
-Find expressive arts and eco-mindfulness offerings and retreats at abpcreative.ca

My training:
🎓BMus in Vocal Performance & Community Music Leadership (CMU)
🎓Post-Bacc Diploma in Vocal Performance (U of M)
💗I studied voice for several years with Nancy Argenta
🎓Currently completing a Certificate in Expressive Arts Therapy through the WHEAT Institute
👹I sang for 4 years in kids indie-rock band, Seanster and the Monsters, where I got to learn about touring as well as writing, recording, and mixing an album.
🎓Digital Marketing Certificates with Brittany Miller Biz and The Jelly Academy
🎓The Art of Managing Your Career (Creative Manitoba)
Artist relations, Marketing, Music curator, Public relations
Artist, Singer, Tour manager, Touring musician
Artist, Instrumentalist, Performer, Singer, Studio musician, Touring musician
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Vocalist
  • Xylophone
Looping station
Co-writer, Lyricist, Songwriter
Music video director, Content creator
Vocal producer
Classical, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, Pop
Board Member, Consultant, Teacher | Instructor
English