Suba Sankaran

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Suba Sankaran is a renowned Dora Award-winning, thrice JUNO-nominated world/fusion artist who effortlessly combines musical worlds. She has performed in over 25 countries across 6 continents with Indo-fusion ensemble Autorickshaw, master drummer Trichy Sankaran, and the a cappella live-looping duo FreePlay, among others. 

Performance highlights include performing for Peter Gabriel, Nelson Mandela, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and performing with Jane Siberry, Lorraine Segato, Alan Frew, Bobby McFerrin, and the Swingles.

Suba is in demand as a choral director, arranger, composer, and educator, having taught at York University, the University of Toronto and Humber College, and has given masterclasses across the globe. She has composed and produced music for theatre, film, radio and dance, including collaborations with Deepa Mehta, the CBCStratford Festival, Shaw Festival and the debut of her original music at the Barbican Theatre in London as part of Why Not Theatre’s Mahabharata.

Her upcoming project “Blue Skies, Red Earth, Tall Pines” in collaboration with Jumblies Theatre’s Gather Round SingersCity Choir and Autorickshaw, brings together poetry, songs and stories around the theme of border crossings.

Suba was recently awarded one of the 2023 Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prizes, and the 2023 Kathleen McMorrow Music Award.

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