Katrina Bishop

After year-round work in musical theatre from age eight to sixteen, lead roles in both high school and University musical theatre productions, a go with a rock band, a first try at Jazz, and a stint in P.I.E dinner theatre, Katrina Bishop left for the East Coast in the Fall of 1990 and immersed herself in the Vancouver music scene.

She became the lead singer and co-writer/arranger for the funk band Rumplesteelskin and the alto and co-writer/arranger for the A Cappella Quartet, 4 Tunes.

She has been the co-writer and performer on several recording projects over the years, including the title track from the Brass Roots CD, Laconda Rift, and the score for the film, "Motifs and Repetitions", sponsored by the Bravo! channel.

Parallel to these things she has been a freelance jazz singer and composer, playing in groups from duo to Big Band, in Vancouver.

She earned a 3.9 GPA 2-year diploma in Contemporary music from Vancouver Community College, accepted an invitation to the Banff Summer Jazz Workshop, and was invited to sing a write from Hugh Fraser's International Jazz Workshop Big Band for three years running.

Along with writing music for the groups she has performed with, Katrina has been writing songs for the fun of it. Her collected of originals has adopted a style of Pop-Fusion, incorporating jazz, Celtic, Latin and rock elements. Her debut CD, Runaway Lane (2001) represents arrangements of ten of these songs, performed in the 'live sound' tradition by some of Canada's finest musicians, including Brad Turner, Miles Hill, Randall Stoll, And Michael Creber who have collectively worked with k.d Lang, Jann Arden and others.

Over the last two years, Katrina has been performing her songs across both the West and East Coasts of Canada. Katrina is also one of three unsigned artists chosen for review in the January February 2002 issue of Canadian Musician Magazine.

Look for Katrina to release a video and follow-up CD, entitled "La La La, I Can't Hear you" dues out summer 2003. She will also be touring across Canada in 2002.

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