Olivia is a registered music teacher and runs the Olivia Whiddon Academy of Music, which is dedicated in providing quality instruction in voice, piano, theatre and theory. She is also the creative director for the Kenora Opera Theatre. Olivia began playing a small Celtic harp (which she built with Esme Boone) about four years ago and in 2019 picked up her own 34 string lever harp. She moved into songwriting at her Bridge and Falls Creative Residency in Sioux Narrows in 2019 and received a grant in 2020 from the Ontario Arts Council as part of a collaborative music and visual arts project with painter, Teresa Bowyer to write and record Written by Water. She enjoys collaborating with artists of different disciplines and gains her inspiration from art and the natural world.
You can reach Olivia at olivia_whiddon@yahoo.ca or on her Olivia Whiddon Adacemy of Music Facebook page at facebook.com/KenoraOWAM.
Written in Water
Olivia Whiddon has an exciting show at The Muse – Douglas Family Art Centre, running until July 6, 2023. Written by Water is a collaborative exhibition of music and paintings inspired by the textures, colours, and temperament of the water from the Lake of Woods region.
Go to the Written by Water page on The Muse website to hear Dragonfly’s Minuet , a sample from the album Written by Water along with more details of the show: themusekenora.ca/exhibit/written-by-water.
