Leah Abramson’s music centres the voice. Starting as a singer-songwriter leading her own band, Leah now uses her love of form and melody, along with her academic and choral background, to compose for vocal ensembles and delve into her love of research-based process and conceptual projects. She debuted the first of such work with Songs For a Lost Pod, her interdisciplinary song cycle that premiered in 2022, presented by Music on Main and The SFU School of Contemporary Arts.
With her MFA in Creative Writing (focus on lyrics), Leah is comfortable in the liminal zone between poetry, lyrics, and music. She is currently working on “Distance Between,” a song cycle and collaboration with poet/therapist-in-training Samantha Sternberg, which taps into writing, editing, and composing as a somatic, embodied process. She is also working on a new EP of songs with her band, The Abramson Singers. Leah is the winner of the 2024 Viva Composition Competition (Toronto) for the SATB arrangement of her song, “Skana,” about the first orca held in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium.
