Board of directors

Board of Directors

• President

  Liberté-Anne Lymberiou (Co-president 2025 — present, board member 2023 — 2025)
  I’m hap­py and excit­ed to play a part as CNMN board-mem­ber, as it is a valu­able cross-cana­di­an net­work builder. Gath­er­ing a wide vari­ety of artists: musi­cians, per­form­ers, impro­vis­ers, com­posers, inter­preters, cul­tur­al work­ers, bridge builders and beyond, is a moti­vat­ing mis­sion. The meet­ing of these var­i­ous prac­tices, through­out diverse cul­tur­al prac­tices and tra­di­tions, can and will most always hum­ble, enrich and lib­er­ate our indi­vid­ual expe­ri­ences. I’m look­ing for­ward to par­take in the work of the CNMN, aim­ing to exem­pli­fy and bol­ster the rich cul­tur­al diver­si­ty that makes up the Cana­di­an land­scape, and cater to the well-being of these inter­con­nect­ed communities. 

  Lib­erté-Anne Lym­be­ri­ou is a com­pos­er, pianist and band­leader from Mon­tre­al. Her artis­tic process focus­es on a holis­tic vision of music, con­sid­er­ing the tra­di­tions, the envi­ron­ment, the physics, the move­ment, and the spir­i­tu­al­i­ty of the sounds with which she is engag­ing in the moment. Her work being prin­ci­pal­ly informed by jazz music, Lib­erté Anne pos­es a par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to impro­vi­sa­tion and rhyth­mic struc­tures from the African dias­po­ra, along with the con­cepts and philoso­phies that sur­round these practises. 

  Lib­erté-Anne began her career in 2013 in New York City, found­ing her orches­tra the “Lib­erté Big Band”, per­form­ing her orig­i­nal works. She received men­tor­ship from com­pos­er and pianist Arturo O’Farrill who first encour­aged her to pur­sue a com­pos­ing and band­lead­ing path. It is through her stud­ies with per­cus­sion­ist Chief Baba Neil Clarke that she begins engag­ing more seri­ous­ly with pan-african per­cus­sion ensem­ble con­cepts and a holis­tic vision of art. 

  In 2017, she rebuilt the Lib­erté Big Band in Mon­tre­al and pur­sued var­i­ous self-pro­duced per­for­mances and col­lab­o­ra­tions across styles and for­ma­tions. Between 2017 and 2019, she trav­elled exten­sive­ly to Cuba to research and study under Iri­an Lopez, focus­ing on Batà drumming.

  Lymberiou’s most recent works span across tra­di­tions and gen­res, and include a 50-minute opus for 20-piece jazz orches­tra, as well as reper­toire for sax­o­phone duos, choir, and mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary projects involv­ing dance, tex­tile art and film.

• President

  Helen Pridmore (Prairies) (Co-President 2025- present; President 2024 — 2025; Secretary 2020–2024; Board Member 2019–2022)
  I am hon­oured and excit­ed to be part of the CNMN Board.  This is a strong and vital orga­ni­za­tion that brings togeth­er our new music com­mu­ni­ty across Cana­da.  Such a vast land, so many projects and oppor­tu­ni­ties:  CNMN offers a way to con­nect, to share, to col­lab­o­rate and to enjoy the depth and breadth of music and sound pos­si­bil­i­ties in our coun­try.  Lais­sez les bons temps — et la belle musique — rouler!

  Helen Prid­more is a singer and sound artist, with a focus on con­tem­po­rary scored music, exper­i­men­tal music and impro­vi­sa­tion.  She has per­formed across Cana­da and the US, includ­ing a solo appear­ance at Carnegie Hall; Helen has also per­formed in Europe, Mex­i­co and Japan.  She has three CDs to her name, includ­ing …between the shore and the ships…, which won the 2013 East Coast Music Award for Best Clas­si­cal Recording.

  Helen’s cur­rent focus is on the tech­nol­o­gy of the voice and the body, with explo­rations into the con­cepts of aur­al beau­ty, space and silence.  She is writ­ing and per­form­ing new works for voice that employ both struc­ture and impro­vi­sa­tion.  One of her cur­rent projects is her solo voice work Sor Jua­na and the Silences, which will be tour­ing Cana­da in the 2020–21 sea­son.  Helen also shares her ideas with stu­dents and com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers via work­shops and impro­vi­sa­tion ses­sions:  see http://www.beingastonished.com/voice-lab/ for cur­rent work and projects.

  With degrees from the Uni­ver­si­ties of Saskatchewan and Toron­to, and the East­man School of Music, Helen is cur­rent­ly a fac­ul­ty mem­ber in Music and Cre­ative Tech­nolo­gies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Regi­na.  www.helenpridmore.ca

• Treasurer

  Sean Clarke (ON) (2016-present)
  When I attend­ed FORUM 2016 in Ottawa I felt an imme­di­ate con­nec­tion to the CNM­N’s goals of build­ing a stronger, more col­lab­o­ra­tive new music com­mu­ni­ty and of giv­ing voice to an impor­tant Cana­di­an art form. The inclu­sive nature of the net­work is vital to build­ing a rich and rel­e­vant artis­tic com­mu­ni­ty. As an active com­pos­er and per­former I’m com­mit­ted to high­light­ing the impor­tance of new music in Cana­di­an soci­ety and rec­og­nize the val­ue of hav­ing a nation­al orga­ni­za­tion such as the CNMN to achieve that goal. I have worked in sev­er­al dif­fer­ent set­tings in the new music com­mu­ni­ty, includ­ing as a com­pos­er, a per­former of new and tra­di­tion­al music in cham­ber and orches­tral set­tings, a con­cert pro­duc­er, a board mem­ber of New Works Cal­gary, and a the­o­rist at aca­d­e­m­ic con­fer­ences. I bring my expe­ri­ence and enthu­si­asm to the CNMN board, to work for this impor­tant orga­ni­za­tion and the new music com­mu­ni­ty at large.

  Sean Clarke is a com­pos­er and flutist from Cal­gary, AB. Before com­plet­ing a doc­tor­ate in instru­men­tal com­po­si­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mon­tréal under the co-direc­tion of Ana Sokolovic and Jonathan Gold­man, he stud­ied flute and com­po­si­tion at the Roy­al North­ern Col­lege of Music, Eng­land, and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­gary. His works have been played in the Unit­ed States, France, and across Cana­da, includ­ing on CBC nation­al radio. Sean has also writ­ten sev­er­al works for young per­form­ers, one of which is pub­lished by the Roy­al Con­ser­va­to­ry of Music (Toron­to).

  Sean has pre­sent­ed his the­o­ry research at sev­er­al nation­al and region­al con­fer­ences, includ­ing those of the Cana­di­an Uni­ver­si­ty Music Soci­ety where his paper was a final­ist for the SOCAN Foundation/George Proc­tor Prize; the South Cen­tral Soci­ety for Music The­o­ry where he was the recip­i­ent of the Best Stu­dent Paper Award; and the West Coast Con­fer­ence of Music The­o­ry and Analysis.

  As a flutist, Sean has per­formed in new music fes­ti­vals in Mon­tréal, Cal­gary and Saska­toon, as an extra musi­cian with the Cal­gary Phil­har­mon­ic Orches­tra, and in con­cert series includ­ing the Société de Musique Con­tem­po­raine de Québec’s Série Hom­mage and McGill University’s Schulich Pro­fes­sion­al Con­cert Series.

  www.sean-clarke.com
  https://soundcloud.com/seanclarkecomposer‑1
  https://www.musiccentre.ca/node/138590/showcase

• Present Board Members

  Chenoa Anderson (2023 — present)
  Like many, my first expe­ri­ence with the CNMN was at a Forum (2014 in Cal­gary, AB), which was such a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence of com­mu­ni­ty and knowl­edge-shar­ing. I am thrilled to be part of the board, amongst amaz­ing col­leagues, con­tribut­ing to the work of fos­ter­ing con­nec­tion, diver­si­ty, and activism.

  Flutist Chenoa Ander­son is a set­tler artist liv­ing and prac­tic­ing in amiskwaciy-wâskahikan/Ed­mon­ton. She has com­mis­sioned and pre­miered dozens of solo and ensem­ble pieces, and is an active impro­vis­er who has worked with musi­cians, dancers, and spo­ken word artists. Cur­rent projects include Ultra­Vi­o­let —  a mixed quar­tet spe­cial­iz­ing in new reper­toire; Gar­den – mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary works set in her per­ma­cul­ture gar­den; Mix­tur with com­pos­er Ian Crutch­ley, per­form­ing exper­i­men­tal reper­toire for flute(s) and found objects/instruments/electronics; and damn mag­pies, a free impro­vi­sa­tion sex­tet. She holds per­for­mance degrees from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to (B.Mus.) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia (M.Mus.).  

  Chenoa Anderson’s debut solo record­ing, Big Flutes: Cana­di­an Music for Alto and Bass Flutes was nom­i­nat­ed for a 2006 West­ern Cana­di­an Music Award. Krishna’s Flute (earsay music, 2013) fea­tures music for flute and inter­ac­tive elec­tron­ics.  Cur­rent releas­es include The Bel­low Project, a col­lab­o­ra­tion between spo­ken word artist Dwen­nim­men (Shi­ma Aisha Robin­son) and damn mag­pies (2021, Band­camp), and field stud­ies – cham­ber music of Emi­lie Cecil­ia LeBel (2023, Red­shift Records), fea­tur­ing UltraViolet.

  In addi­tion to an active per­form­ing and teach­ing career, Chenoa has been the Gen­er­al Man­ag­er for New Music Edmon­ton since 2012, and in 2014 was nom­i­nat­ed for Syn­crude Award for Excel­lence in Arts Man­age­ment at the Mayor’s Awards for the Arts. When not play­ing flute, Chenoa can often be found gar­den­ing, knit­ting, cycling, cross-coun­try ski­ing, or read­ing with a cat on her lap.

• Éric Normand (2023 — present)
  Éric Nor­mand is on the board of direc­tors because he believes in net­work­ing and in the music com­mu­ni­ty’s abil­i­ty to pro­mote prac­tices of resource and skill-shar­ing to fos­ter equi­ty and eman­ci­pa­tion with­in the diver­si­ty of sound practices.

  Éric Nor­mand is an impro­vis­er, bassist, com­pos­er, and print­er. He resides in the small town of Rimous­ki in East­ern Que­bec. He leads Tour de bras, an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to impro­vised music, and engages in cul­tur­al activ­i­ties on both local and glob­al scales. He is one of the founders of the Grand groupe région­al d’improvisation libérée (GGRIL, 2007), an ensem­ble ded­i­cat­ed to the explo­ration of “com­po­si­tions for improvisers.”

  Nor­mand has released over 30 albums on Cana­di­an and for­eign labels, and his music has been fea­tured in var­i­ous fes­ti­vals in more than 20 coun­tries. Through Tour de Bras, Nor­mand has been advo­cat­ing for impro­vi­sa­tion prac­tices for 20 years, cre­at­ing an impres­sive inter­na­tion­al net­work that inter­sects with impro­vi­sa­tion hubs world­wide and includes co-pro­duc­tions with coun­tries like Aus­tralia or Slovenia.

• Cassondra Murray (2025 — present)
  I am thrilled to join the CNMN board of direc­tors to con­tribute to a nation­al net­work that fos­ters inclu­sive, exper­i­men­tal, and bound­ary-push­ing music-mak­ing across Cana­da. CNMN’s com­mit­ment to equi­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty, and  aligns close­ly with my val­ues of ampli­fy­ing under­rep­re­sent­ed voic­es as a mul­ti­ply mar­gin­al­ized artist. I am espe­cial­ly excit­ed to bring my expe­ri­ence in par­tic­i­pa­to­ry prac­tice, com­mu­ni­ty advo­ca­cy, and restora­tive approach­es to sup­port CNMN’s mis­sion and equi­ty ini­tia­tives, while help­ing cul­ti­vate spaces where cre­ative music can thrive for every­one.  For me, this role is not only about gov­er­nance but also about active­ly shap­ing a sec­tor that val­ues deep lis­ten­ing, mutu­al care, and trans­for­ma­tive artis­tic practice

  Cas­son­dra Mur­ray (they/them) is a neu­ro­di­ver­gent, 2SLGBTQ exper­i­men­tal vocal artist and com­mu­ni­ty advo­cate based in St. John’s, New­found­land and Labrador (Ktaqmkuk). Their work explores extend­ed vocal tech­niques and impro­vi­sa­tion­al prac­tices, cre­at­ing immer­sive per­for­mances described as “haunt­ing” and “anar­chis­tic.” Mur­ray has per­formed with ensem­bles includ­ing Vertrek and VocalX, and at fes­ti­vals such as New Music Edmonton’s Now Hear This, New­found Music Fes­ti­val, Fes­ti­val of New Dance, Hold Fast, Sound Sym­po­sium, as well as Audiopol­li­na­tion (Guelph) and Night Music (St. John’s). Their artistry is doc­u­ment­ed in Voic­es Found: Free Jazz & Singing (Chris Toneli).

  A cer­ti­fied Peer Sup­port­er and Restora­tive Jus­tice prac­ti­tion­er, Mur­ray applies a sur­vivor-informed, anti-oppres­sive lens to com­mu­ni­ty work, orga­ni­za­tion­al gov­er­nance, and sys­temic change. They serve as the New­found­land & Labrador region­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Sur­vivors for Jus­tice Reform. Mur­ray has held board and com­mit­tee roles with Vio­lence Pre­ven­tion Aval­on East, St. John’s Sta­tus of Women Coun­cil, Per­sis­tence The­atre, Peer Sup­port Canada’s Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee, Equal Voice NL’s Lead­er­ship Com­mit­tee, and the Social Jus­tice Co-op NL’s Trans­for­ma­tive Jus­tice Com­mit­tee. In recog­ni­tion of their advo­ca­cy, they received the YWCA Social Jus­tice and Advo­ca­cy Award (2025).

  Murray’s prac­tice cen­ters equi­ty, acces­si­bil­i­ty, vol­un­teerism, and rela­tion­al account­abil­i­ty, bridg­ing art, advo­ca­cy, and trans­for­ma­tive com­mu­ni­ty engage­ment. They are com­mit­ted to ampli­fy­ing mar­gin­al­ized voic­es, fos­ter­ing deep lis­ten­ing and mutu­al care, and explor­ing the poten­tial of cre­ative prac­tice to build inclu­sive and vibrant musi­cal communities.

• Past Board Members

  Marina Hasselberg (2023 — 2024)
• Meredith Bates (2024 — 2025)
• Jennifer Thiessen (2022 — 2024)
• Andrew Reed Miller (2022 — 2025)
• Thierry Tidrow (2024 — 2025)
• Hillary Jean Young (2024 — 2025)
• Jennifer Waring (ON) (President 2016–2019, Board Member 2014–2016)
• An-Laurence Higgins (2020- 2022)
• Anju Singh (2024 — 2025)
• Robert Thomson (BC) (2020 — 2022)
• Juliet Palmer (ON) (President 2019–2024, Vice President 2016–2019)
• Julie Richard (QC) (2019- 2025)
• Müge Büyükçelen (BC) (2019–2024)
• André Cormier (Atlantic) (2018-present)
• Po Yeh (Prairies) (2016–2022)
• Linda Bouchard (Non Regional) (2018–2023)
• Emily Doolittle (Non-Regional) (2016- 2025)
• Norman Adams (Atlantic) (2014–2024)
• Megumi Masaki (Prairies) (2016–2023)
• Jérôme Blais (Atlantic) (2012-present)
• Marc-Olivier Lamontagne (QC) (2016–2017)
• Clemens Merkel (QC) (2017–2020)
• David Pay (BC) (2012–2019)
• Jason Cullimore (SK) (2008–10)
• Patrick Giguère (QC) (2018–2019)
• Janice Jackson (Atlantic) (Secretary, 2008-12)
• Brenda Cleniuk (SK) (2017–2019)
• Jennifer Butler (BC) (2016–2019)
• Aimé Dontigny (QC) (2006)
• Brent Lee (ON) (2011–14)
• Heidi Ouellette (MB) (2012–16)
• Cléo Palacio-Quintin (QC) (Treasurer, 2010–14)
• Alain Perron (SK)(2010–2017)
• Clark Ross (NF) (2006–08)
• Ellen Waterman (ON) (2006–07)
• Gayle Young (ON) (2006–08)
• Jason van Eyk (ON)(2010–2011)
• Jerry Pergolesi (ON) (2008–13)
• Jim Hiscott (MB) (Secretary-Treasurer, 2006-08; Board Member, 2009-10)
• Jim Montgomery (ON) (Secretary, 2012–16)
• Joe Sorbara (ON) (2006–08)
• John Gzowski (ON) (2008–12)
• John Reid (AB and the Northern Territories) (2010–14)
• Karen Sunabacka (MB) (2010–12)
• Kathryn Ladano (ON) (2016–2018)
• Kyle Brenders (ON) (President, 2014–16; Board Member, 2013–14)
• Lawrence Cherney (ON) (2008–10)
• Louise Campbell (QC) (Vice-President, 2014–16; Board Member, 2008-12)
• Marianne Perron (QC) (2006–08)
• Mireille Gagné (QC) (Vice President, 2005-08; Treasurer, 2009-10)
• Randy Raine-Reusch (BC) (2010–12)
• Paul Cram (Atlantic) (2005–14)
• Pauline Minevich (SK) (2006–07)
• Pierre-Olivier Roy (QC) (2018–2020)
• Roger Admiral (AB) (2005–10)
• Ron Samworth (BC) (2006–08)
• Sarah Albu (QC) (Board Member, 2016–2018)
• Stacey Brown (QC) (Treasurer, 2014–16; Vice-President, 2012–14)
• Therese Costes (MB) (2006–07)
• Tim Brady (QC) (Board Member, 2014–2017; President, 2005–14)
• Tina Pearson (BC) (Vice President, 2008-12)