AK performs with an eclectic array of ensembles, including the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and Vancouver New Music
Ensemble, among others, and has played concerts across the globe. She is a long-time
member of the award-winning contemporary chamber music ensemble, Standing Wave,
and of Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble. AK is also a founding member of the Ad
Mare Wind Quintet with whom she performs many educational concerts in BC Schools
every year.
She has made a wide variety of recordings from Disney film scores to Indie Rock
albums and everything in between. Her recent album 20 th C Remix with Standing Wave,
was nominated for a Juno Award. On the video front, she contributed a solo work,
Leaning, to the Canadian Music Centre BC Chapter’s Unaccompanied video and digital
album series and, on bass clarinet, is thrilled to have released Abstraction: part of Turning
Point Ensemble’s 1+1+1 Video Project.
AK holds a BMus from UBC and an MMus from Northwestern University,
Chicago, and counts Robert Marcellus, Clark Brody and Wes Foster as among her most
influential teachers. She is a respected adjudicator, clinician, and chamber music coach,
and is very proud of her award-winning students.