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2006
improvised devotional music for praise and worship
• Farmer Memorial Baptist Church, Toronto
• Christ Embassy Church, Toronto based Nigerian church
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1987 - 2006
piano music: (classical, contemporary, jazz, reggae, latin, pop, new age, Jewish, christmas...) for corporate & private functions, bar/batmitzvahs, christmas parties, weddings, funerals, anniversaries, fundraisers, etc…
Clients include:
Arts & Letters Club
Elmwood Club
Granite Club
Old Mill Restaurant
The Guild Inn
Manulife Centre
McLean House Estate
Harbourfront
Convocation Hall
Sheraton Centre CFTO TV
CIUT FM Canadian Opera Company
Famous People Players
Hilda Wilson Group
Merrill Lynch
Motorola
Shulton Canada Ltd Inn on the Park Hotel
Royal York Hotel
Hyatt Regency Hotel
King Edward Hotel
Ramada Rennaissance Hotel
Sutton Place Hotel
Four Seasons Hotel
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2005
Jazz piano/ percussion duo: elegant music for private function: Oakwood, Ontario
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2000 - 2005
voice & percussion performance with
Arising Phoenix sound sculpture
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1992 - 2004
Oakwood United Church
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church
Leaside Presbyterian Church
Silverthorn United Church
Glebe Road United Church
Morningside High Park Presbyterian Church
Manor Road United Church
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2002
Voice: composed, sang and recorded vocal soundtrack for audio/video installation Glove Forest
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1996 - 1998
voice, percussion, dance performance with
Dragon Tango sound sculpture
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1996
live improvised piano music: interdisciplinary performance with prepared piano, percussion, voice, dance, mime
Fuchu No Mori Gekijo Theatre, Tokyo, Japan
(see also Composition)
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1995
voice, percussion and movement with
Oh Canada sound sculpture
(see also Composition; Director)
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1993 - 1995
piano and percussion: improvised music for general interest course: Music Meditations in Motion University of Toronto (see also Composer; Director; Educator)
Open both to students and the public, this course, entitled Music Meditations in Motion, encouraged participants to explore a wide range of guided and intuitive physical movements in response to improvised piano and percussion music performed by Amanta Scott. The music took participants through a spectrum of moods: from quiet solitudes to earthy tribal rhythms and chanting; and through passionate outpourings to ethereal meditations.This course was extremely popular with working professionals, specifically psychotherapists and doctors.
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1992 - 1996
voice, percussion and dance: with Virago Project
sound sculpture - Greater Toronto Area tour
(see also Composer; Director; Costume Design; Syncretic Art)
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1987 - 1995
freelance dance accompanist: live improvised piano music for modern dance and ballet (see also Composer)
Venues include:
Desrosiers Dance Theatre
The Teachers' Collective
Toronto Dance Theatre
Ryerson Polytechnic
Ballet Jorgen
Richard Sugarman
George Brown College
Canadian Children's Dance Theatre
University of Toronto
York University
Sean Boutillier Academy
Studio Dance Theatre
Claude Watson School of the Arts
Etobicoke School of the Arts
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1991
keyboards: Beggar's Nativity - a musical for Kensington Carnival Theatre (see also Composer & Director)
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voice, percussion and dance with SpiderWoman
sound sculpture (see also Composition; Director) |
1988
performed and recorded: piano solo Conception
for Choreographer Laurence Lemieux dance performance in
“Spring Fever; Choreographic Rites”: Toronto Dance Theatre
(see also Composer)
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keyboards: I Do! I Do! - a musical for Spotlight Theatre
(see also Director) |
live improvised piano music for dance,
In The Land of Spirits: a John Kim Bell Production
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piano: live improvised piano music for dance and opera
Aida: SkyDome Production
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keyboards, piano: live improvised incidental music:
Droll Models Comedy Cabaret - The Theater Center and The Rivoli (see also Composer) |
keyboards and voice: Too Rude - Reggae band
Venues include:
Grossman's Tavern
Hotel Isabella
Lee's Palace
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1987
featured composer and pianist:
Roy Thomson Hall: “Cushion Concerts” series... Compositions included:
Mamboling: piano solo
Niichkiwehnk: quintet for Clarinet & Strings
1st Passacaglia on the Left: Quartet for Vibraphone, Marimba, Bass and Drums
(see also Composition)
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keyboards, musical director: The Good Baby - a musical by Leon Rooke: Caravan Stage Company (see also Director)
For six months Amanta toured the west coast of Canada by horse-drawn coach and wagon with the Caravan Stage Company. In addition to the music Amanta enjoyed living on the road as a gypsy, a return to her own gypsy heritage. She particularly loved working with and attending to the enormous Clydesdale horses. For Amanta, riding outrider - bareback on the Arabian and light horses, with the wind racing through her hair - called to the wild nature of her soul. |
keyboards: composed, performed and recorded: electronic music soundscape for Miss Julie: Tarragon Theatre Extra Space (see also Composition) |
jazz piano: Pianist/ Leader: house band (sextet) |
1978
voice and guitar:
composed and performed title songs for television series:
TV Ontario
One Step and a Time
Nowhere to Go But Up
(see also Composition) |
young actor for assorted television series: TV Ontario |
