SARAH ROSSY'S VOICE IS COLOURFULLY CHAMELEONIC YET VULNERABLY HUMAN.

Performer, composer, producer, and educator Sarah Rossy (she/they) is a Lebanese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal. Sarah combines influences of jazz, live-processed electronics, and tender songwriting into autobiographical, ethereal, and socially-outspoken soundscapes for a truly unique result. Having performed hundreds of live shows of both original and collaborative music in under a decade, Sarah Rossy is an ever-expanding curious artist.

Sarah's long list of collaborations includes: Meredith Monk, Thanya Iyer, No Cosmos, GEORGE (John Hollenbeck), FORAGER (NPR Tiny Desk), Richard Reed Parry, and many more. In 2021, Sarah was appointed Artistic Director of Chœur Maha, a feminist community choir, and accepted a position as a Professor of Music at Dawson College. In 2019, Sarah began an ancestral research journey with the Arrivals Legacy Project. This meaningful work is now an active part of Sarah's creative process. The interdisciplinary nature of Sarah's artistic practice now includes education as a tool for social justice, empowerment, and transformation.

Active/recent projects include: WASH, an interdisciplinary solo show exploring resonant themes of immigration, cultural assimilation and Arab erasure; GEORGE, an experimental jazz band led by drummer/composer John Hollenbeck; Indra's Net, an interdisciplinary work by Meredith Monk in New York City; as well as Sarah's self-led band and experimental electronic solo practise. In 2024, Sarah released 'Seemingly Insatiable Waves' EP which Le Devoir reviewed as “too good to be so short”. A much-anticipated debut full-length album entitled “LUCID” was unveiled in 2025. Sorstu.ca reviewed the Pop Montreal launch show: “Sarah Rossy has proven that she remains a pillar of our local scene with a richness and interpretation that is always well-felt and deserves to be better known.”

Compositionally, Sarah explores experiential processes which traverse through a feminist lens and nurture the ecosystems of artistic community, unifying her passions for social justice, representation, and unity. Sarah Rossy's work is a unique and compelling representation of art, culture, and the human experience.

Sarah holds both a B.Mus and M.Mus from McGill University, where she was mentored by John Hollenbeck, Christine Jensen, and Ranee Lee. Sarah's research has been graciously supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the SOCAN Foundation.

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acknowledgement

I acknowledge that the majority of my artistic pursuits on Turtle Island (North America) are situated on the traditional territory of Indigenous nations, specifically, the Kanienkehá:ka Nations, in Tiotia:ke (Montreal). I acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather, create, and live. I acknowledge the histories of slavery, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and people of African decent; whose creativity, ingenuity and ancestral knowledge was responsible for the birth of jazz. I pay my respects to this body of practice in which I now share. I commit to amplifying, celebrating, and uplifting voices of marginalized race, gender, ability, class, and other historically oppressed identities in my creative pursuits. I dedicate my career to fighting against systemic oppression through education and action.