Performer

“If you want to get down to the essence of music, it is a celebration of life. Whether I’m singing or playing piano, I try to draw the audience deeper into all the various colours and tones of the human experience.” – Marguerite Witvoet

2024

Into The Woods (“Lawyer’s Show”)

Keyboardist
Book by James Lapine
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Jennifer Copping
Music Direction by Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver, BC

2023

The Ballad of Ballantyne Pier (workshop)

Keyboardist
Script by Sherry MacDonald
Songs by Tom Jones. arranged by Marguerite Witvoet
Directed by Amiel Gladstone
Music Direction by Marguerite Witvoet
Independent Workshop, Vancouver, BC

Mamma Mia! (“Lawyer’s Show”)

Keyboardist
Script by Catherine Johnsson
Music by ABBA (Bennie Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus)
Directed by Roy Surette
Music Direction by Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver, BC

2019

The Coyotes

Keyboardist

Script by Peter Anderson
Music by John Millard
Directed by Estelle Shook
Music Direction by Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by Caravan Farm Theatre, Armstrong, BC

2018

All That We Are

Singer/Pianist

Music and Words by Douglas MacArthur

A collaboration with Douglas MacArthur at the Centre Artistique International Roy Hart, Malérargues, France.

Art Song Lab

Faculty Accompanist

Words/Music by various national & international librettists/composers
Produced by Art Song Lab, Vancouver, BC.

2017/2018

Onegin (Vancouver run & Western tour)

Pianist/Keyboardist/Vocalist

Script and direction by Amiel Gladstone
Music and music direction by Veda Hille
Produced by The Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver, BC

2014

Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata

Vocalist & Pianist

Music by Veda Hille
Words by Bill Richardson
Directed by Amiel Gladstone
Produced by Acting Up Stage Company in Calgary, Edmonton and Ottawa

Art Song Lab

Faculty Accompanist

Words/Music by various national & international librettists/composers
Produced by Vancouver International Song Institute.

Brief Encounters

Creator/Performer

A two-week encounter with a beverage alchemist in an interdisciplinary festival
Song/Lyrics by Marguerite Witvoet
Script by Taylor Partel & Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by The Tomorrow Collective

2013

Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata

Vocalist & Pianist

Music by Veda Hille
Words by Bill Richardson
Directed by Amiel Gladstone
Produced by the Arts Club Theatre

2009 – 2011

What Does A Body Know?

Vocalist & Cyber Glove Performer

Libretto by Meryn Cadell
Music by Bob Pritchard
Produced by the UBC DIVA Project at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, January 2009; at the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener, Ontario, May, 2009; at NIME in Sydney, Australia, June 2010; live telecast from Vancouver to Calgary CNMN conference, January 2011; at the CHI conference in Vancouver, May 2011, and at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, November 2011.

2009

We Were Here

Vocalist & Pianist

Spoken word poetry by Shane Koyczan
Music by Jordan Nobles
Produced by The Cultch

Songs of Lima

Solo Pianist

Music by Francisco Huguet, Beat Furrer, Russell Pinkston and Enrique Iturriaga
Produced by Redshift Music & Sonic Presence

2008

Festival Internacional de Música Clásica Contemporánea de Lima

Piano + Vocal Soloist

Music by Luis de Pablo, Enrique Iturriaga, Colin MacDonald, Francois Morel, Beat Furrer, Francisco Huguet, Jordan Nobles and Russell Pinkston
Produced by Centro Cultural de España (Lima, Peru)

2007

Squeezebox

Vocal + Accordion Soloist

Collaboration between Kathleen Oliver and Marguerite Witvoet
Score by Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by song room

Red Cage

Piano Soloist

An interweaving of John Cage’s “Sonata + Interludes”, Georges Aperghis’ “Récitations pour voix seule” and Martha Graham’s “Blood Memory”
Produced by Music on Main

2006

The Art Hung Quietly

Vocal Soloist + Keyboards

A collaboration between Nicola Cavendish and Marguerite Witvoet
Score by Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by song room

2005

SKIN à fleur de peau

Vocal Soloist, Keyboards + Electronics

A collaboration between Barbara Bourget, Lyse Lemieux and Marguerite Witvoet
Score by Marguerite Witvoet. Additional performers: Bernie Arai, Sal Ferrerras, Peggy Lee, Ron Samworth.
Produced by the Vancouver International Dance Festival

Last Call: A Post-Nuclear Cabaret by Morris Panych + Ken MacDonald

Eddie Morose (actor/singer/pianist)

Directed by Andy Toth, featuring David Adams + Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by Quintessence Musical Theatre Project

2004

Tongue Tied

Vocal Soloist + Performer

Written and Performed by Marguerite Witvoet
Directed by James Fagan Tait
Produced by Vancouver New Music

2003

Live At Studio Two: Peter Hannan + Marguerite Witvoet

Vocal + Piano Soloist

Improvisations and works by Guillaume de Machaut, Georges Aperghis, Peter Hannan & Marguerite Witvoet
Produced by CBC Radio Two (live recording)

John Cage: Sonatas + Interludes

Prepared Piano Soloist

Produced by West Coast Performance,

CBC Radio One

2002

Random Acts

Piano Soloist

Music by Robert B. Pritchard, Bradshaw Pack
Produced by The Western Front

Voice Works

Vocal Soloist

Music by Peter Hannan, Marguerite Witvoet, Georges Aperghis
Produced by The Western Front

2001

Wow, Um, Really

MIDI Soloist

Music by Peter Hannan
CBC Radio Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Produced by CBC Radio Two and the Chan Centre (live recording)

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