Core Members.
The core group members live in Vancouver and were assembled shortly after, Katelin Coleman founded Artemis Musicians’ Society. The core members’ biographies are listed below. Other members and contributors are listed at the bottom of this page.
Katelin Coleman
Bassoonist
Katelin was born in 1989 in Burnaby, B.C. and first picked up the bassoon near the end of high school, studying for a year in Vancouver with Julia Lockhart before moving to Montreal to study with Martin Mangrum and Stéphane Levesque at McGill University in 2008. She completed her Bachelor's in bassoon performance at McGill in 2012, and went on to pursue a Master's at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Datstellende Kunst in Mannheim, Germany, where she studied with Ole Kristian Dahl.
Katelin has freelanced extensively throughout Europe; during her studies, she played regularly with Kammerphilharmonie Mannheim, Heidelberger Sinfoniker, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra and Het Gelders Orkest as both a principal and a tutti player. She later won the position of second bassoon in the Danish Radio National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen, Denmark, on a temporary contract, and went on to hold a contract in Odense Symphony Orchestra as well. During this time, she has also been a trialist for the position of co-principal bassoon in the RTÉ Irish National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, and continued to freelance throughout Scandinavia, playing with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, the Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the Finnish Radio Orchestra. Since her return to Canada in 2016, Katelin has played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra, Allegra Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, and the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra. She is also a passionate chamber musician and member of the Loïc Dequidt Ensemble - a Jazz/Classical nonette based in Sweden, performing all original compositions fusing the two idioms. She is a member of the Ventos Wind Quintet, based in Vancouver, B.C.
Since founding Artemis, Katelin has taken on a position of leadership not just as a skilled performer and musician, but as an artistic director and activist as well. In stepping into these new roles, Katelin hopes to provide an artistically authentic new way forward for herself and other musicians who, like her, have become disillusioned with the classical music world, while still being in love with classical music.
Morgan Zentner
Oboist
Morgan Zentner is a Vancouver based free lance oboist who got her start in the southern United States. After completing her bachelors in music at East Carolina University, she immigrated to Canada to do her Masters in Orchestral Performance at the University of British Columbia. She won a principle position right after completion to begin what she thought would be a long career as an orchestral musician. However after a few years of intense free lance work she decided she wanted to do something completely different. She decided to move to Montreal to study contemporary music techniques at McGill University (subsequently where she met and worked with Katelin Coleman) and to try her hand at bringing oboe into the world of heavy metal. This genre of music was a huge passion in her life and she wanted to make her mark as Canada’s leading heavy metal oboist. She recorded for a handful of bands while on the East Coast until she caught the attention of a West Coast folk metal band: Scythia. She joined them on their Canadian tour and quickly moved back to Vancouver to perform with them full time until 2013. With this group she was given the nickname “oboe of death” and was featured in the International Double Reed Society’s magazine. Since parting ways with Scythia she has performed and recorded with various groups of all types of music. Her recent favorite has been her work with the Vancouver Intercultural Orchestra and being able to play fusion music from a wide range of cultures. Since reuniting with Ms. Coleman, she has had the great pleasure of being able to now add Artemis to her ever growing resume of performing groups and looks forward to bringing its message to audiences all over the world.
Joanna Lee
Violinist
Born in Vancouver, Korean Canadian violinist Joanna commenced piano lessons at the age of 3. Two years later, she took up the violin. At the age of 12 Joanna moved to Edmonton where she studied with retired ESO concertmaster and Curtis Music of Institute alma mater, James Keene.
For her undergraduate studies, Joanna attended McGill University where she received her Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance. There, she studied under the tutalege of Andrew Dawes, Mark Fewer and Richard Roberts. She later received an invitation to study with former ESO concertmaster, Martin Riseley at the New Zealand School of Music, where she pursued a Master of Musical Arts in one year. At NZSM, Joanna participated in Concerts, Music forums, Orchestra and Masterclasses with violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Schmuel Askenasi.
Joanna enjoys performing both as a soloist and a chamber musician and teaching at her home studio in Vancouver. As a teacher, she works towards catering the needs of each individual, whether it may be learning music for fun, re-gaining confidence or preparing for competitions or exams. As freelancer, she finds time to perform with several groups such as Chilliwack Symphony, Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Island Symphony Orchestra, Plastic Acid, Kamloops Symphony, and the Prince George Symphony.
Julie B. (Chronfused)
Poet
Julie B. (aka Chronfused) is a poet, vocal looper, improv performance artist who may actually just be a puff of smoke vaguely shaped like a lady. A performer since childhood, she attended her first acting classes through, Kids In Sync, between the ages of 9-13 with Heather Ross, in her home town of Yellowknife. As a teenager Julie joined a competitive french improv team as well as increasing her involvement with the local, Ptarmigan Theatrics, company for their productions of A Christmas Journey, Hello Dolly, and Evita.
She continued her informal study of music and performance through high school productions, musical and dramatic summer camps (with instructors such as Carmen Braden, Ellen Mackavaile, Aurora Jane and Rachelle Van Zanten) while also playing regularly as a solo singer/songwriter and as part of various bands.
Since 2005, Julie has continued to exhibit her unique style of interdisciplinary art at various festivals and concert venues across North America including (but not limited to); Vines Festival, Hulaween, FL, Astral Harvest Festival, TD Vancouver Coastal Jazzfest, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Vancouver Pride, CBC North, and Folk on the Rocks (the latter two as a member of Fish Be?). In 2015, Julie founded, The Julboree for Charity, a yearly fundraising musical concert for a rotating charitable cause. The recipients of The Julboree donation in the past have been, Food Not Bombs YVR, The Beauty Nights Society, The Yellowknife Rainbow Coalition and Saige Community Food bank.
Most recently Julie (Chronfused) has begun to produce and host a twice-monthly radio show on citrDiscorder Radio called “Muse-ish”. Julie has focused on creating improvised music through collaborative performance with other eclectic musicians, which lead her to join forces with "the Artemis Musicians Society" a group that uses music to battle the stigma faced by survivors of sexual assault. No matter if it’s silly or serious a Chronfused performance is always a stirring experience.