Heather Hutchison
Encyclopedia
Heather Lynn Hutchison (born August 6, 1988) is a singer-songwriter
/pianist
from St. Albert, Alberta
, Canada
.
, Heather enriched her experience by listening to a variety of music. She started taking piano
lessons at the age of five, and joined a choir
at the age of seven. She started taking voice lessons at thirteen, and began writing the title song to her first EP
, Hello.
Klondike Days (currently known as the Capital Ex) Talent Explosion for the first time. One of her judges for the semi-finals was producer Brock Skywalker
http://www.frozenpuck.com/, (formerly of Captain Tractor
). Skywalker worked with Hutchison to produce her first EP, Hello, which was released on April 24, 2005.
Hutchison has recorded and/or performed with various established Canadian artists, including Brock Skywalker, the Stringbeans Quartet
, drummer Chris Budnardchuk (Maren Ord
, the James Murdoch Band), Chris Brzezicki (Paul Bellows), Jeff Smook (Captain Tractor
), and Ann Vriend
.
Hutchison has performed in venues such as St. Albert's Arden Theatre, (the now-defunct) Reds, the CBC
City Center Stage in downtown Edmonton, and the Yardbird Suite to a near-capacity crowd on the night of her CD release.
, Sarah Mclachlan
, Tori Amos
, Vienna Teng
, Corrinne May
, Anna Nalick
and Kyler England.
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
/pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
from St. Albert, Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Early life
Heather Hutchison found her passion for music at a very early age. Born blindBlindness
Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
, Heather enriched her experience by listening to a variety of music. She started taking piano
Piano
The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
lessons at the age of five, and joined a choir
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
at the age of seven. She started taking voice lessons at thirteen, and began writing the title song to her first EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Hello.
On the Alberta Music Scene
In the summer of 2004 at age fifteen, Hutchison entered the EdmontonEdmonton
Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta and is the province's second-largest city. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.The city and its census...
Klondike Days (currently known as the Capital Ex) Talent Explosion for the first time. One of her judges for the semi-finals was producer Brock Skywalker
Brock Skywalker
Brock Jason Armstrong Skywalker is a founding member of the Alberta band Captain Tractor and since Tractor's inception, back in 1993, Brock has become a permanent fixture in the Alberta music scene...
http://www.frozenpuck.com/, (formerly of Captain Tractor
Captain Tractor
Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West...
). Skywalker worked with Hutchison to produce her first EP, Hello, which was released on April 24, 2005.
Hutchison has recorded and/or performed with various established Canadian artists, including Brock Skywalker, the Stringbeans Quartet
The Stringbeans Quartet
The Stringbeans Quartet are a traditional chamber ensemble best known for their creative versatility.Founded in 1999 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada as a formal String Quartet, it wasn't long before their focus turned to original arrangements of new, modern, and popular music...
, drummer Chris Budnardchuk (Maren Ord
Maren Ord
Maren Whitney Ord is a Canadian singer-songwriter of rock and pop music.-Childhood and early teenager career:Ord was born and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, the eighth of ten children. She grew up in a musical family; her father was a professor of music, her mother taught voice and piano, and the...
, the James Murdoch Band), Chris Brzezicki (Paul Bellows), Jeff Smook (Captain Tractor
Captain Tractor
Captain Tractor is a Canadian folk rock band, based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play a punk-influenced variant of Celtic folk music, similar to such bands as Great Big Sea, The Pogues or Spirit of the West...
), and Ann Vriend
Ann Vriend
Ann Vriend is a singer-songwriter/pianist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. A popular performer, she has sold thousands of albums and played festivals and venues around the world.- Recording career :...
.
Hutchison has performed in venues such as St. Albert's Arden Theatre, (the now-defunct) Reds, the CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
City Center Stage in downtown Edmonton, and the Yardbird Suite to a near-capacity crowd on the night of her CD release.
Musical influences
Heather Hutchison's musical influences include EvanescenceEvanescence
Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording private albums, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on Wind-up Records in 2003. Fallen sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
, Sarah Mclachlan
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...
, Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
, Vienna Teng
Vienna Teng
Cynthia Yih Shih , better known by her stage name Vienna Teng, is a Taiwanese American pianist and singer-songwriter based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Teng has released four studio albums: Waking Hour , Warm Strangers , Dreaming Through the Noise , and Inland Territory...
, Corrinne May
Corrinne May
Corrinne May is a Singaporean singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles.Corrinne composed and performed the theme song for Singapore's National Day 2010, titled "Song for Singapore"...
, Anna Nalick
Anna Nalick
Anna Christine Nalick is an American singer-songwriter. Her debut album, Wreck of the Day, featuring her first radio hit, "Breathe ", was released on April 19, 2005. Nalick left her label under Sony in 2009 after a falling-out surrounding the release of her second album...
and Kyler England.