Bio

Sebastian Harmon Hutchings (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist living and working on Treaty Seven territory, engaging primarily in narrative musical forms, multimedia installation, and literature. A producer as well as an artist, they have realized many of their creations from conception to audience, including the chamber operas Did I escape, I wonder… (2011 – 2012) and The Agony of Mrs Stone (2009), and the song cycle Fury (2014, 2018). Hutchings is an alumni of Concordia University (2004), Banff Centre for the Arts (2023), and the Rosewood Fine Woodworking School (2014), and has been the recipient of multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Their score for the short film Do We Leave This Here was nominated for an Alberta Film and Television award (2018). Professional collaborators have included Landsend Ensemble, Ensemble Paramaribo, Hear Here Productions, playwright and dramaturg Matt Jones, singers Clayton Kennedy, Nan Hughes, and Sarah Albu, and their father and visual artist Stephen Hutchings. Hutchings’ work was included in the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival (2012) and in the group show Large and in Charge (Whyte Museum, 2019). In 2020 they opened The Radiant, a restaurant and live performance venue on Banff Avenue, for which they curated and managed over 200 events, spanning many musical genres, drag, burlesque, and theatre performances.

List of Works

Compositions

Fury (Song cycle; 2014 - 2023)
Baritone, bass clarinet, cello, contrabass, percussion

Nocturne, for Norma (Part of an installation; 2018)
Solo violin

Do we leave this here (Score for a film; 2017)
String quartet

Did I escape, I wonder… (Chamber opera; 2011)
Soprano, baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, harp, violin, cello

Lake Songs (Song cycle; 2010)
Soprano, flute, violin, cello, harp, percussion

Meditation (For an artist video; 2010)

The Agony of Mrs. Stone (Chamber opera; 2009)
Soprano, baritone, and bass; flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, string quintet, piano, percussion

Creation Myths (Cycle; 2002 - 2007)
Solo piano

Writing

Songs of Manyselves (Libretto; 2023)

Fury (Lyrics 2012 - 2023)

Reliquary (2018)

Did I escape, I wonder… (Libretto; 2011)

Lake Songs (Lyrics; 2011)

The Agony of Mrs. Stone (Libretto; 2008)

installation

Reliquary + Nocturne, for Norma (2018)