Biography
Charles Quevillon (b. 1989) is a Canadian-Finnish composer and performer living in Helsinki. He collaborated for twelve years with choreographer Tedd Robinson on 27 projects, some of which (e.g., TRUST) he co-authored and performed in as a musician-dancer at Canada’s leading dance festivals (FTA, VIDF, CDF, FND). Their collaboration culminated in 2018 with the co-creation of his first opera, Love and Other Things, presented at the National Arts Centre in Canada. The work began during a three-month CALQ residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (JP) in 2016.
His most recent opera, Loudspeaker Baptism, funded by the Kone Foundation, premiered at the Ooppera Kesä Festival in 2024. Now touring in Canada, it has received glowing reviews for its “ideal balance between formal innovation and emotional depth.”
Charles’ holistic, multidisciplinary approach to composition has led to international collaborations with musicians and ensembles redefining music performance, including defunensemble (FI), Sound Initiative (FR), Sawtooth Duo (CA), kollektiv international totem (CH), and Émilie Girard-Charest (QC). He also works with Finnish visual artist Maija Tammi, with whom he created The 1m³ of Human Experiment (Kiasma Theatre, Meidän Festivaali) and the 2020 exhibition Immortal’s Birthday at Forum Box, Helsinki. They are now working on their seventh video work, Care Fall.
In addition to composing, performing, and creating sound design for award-winning films, dance, and theatre, Charles teaches the Ritual and Sound workshop and is completing doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. His artistic research, funded by the SSHRC, is titled Sacred Technologies: Numinous and Grotesque Symbolism of Electronic Music Devices in Instrumental Theater.
Charles Quevillon (b. 1989) is a Canadian-Finnish composer and performer living in Helsinki. He collaborated for twelve years with choreographer Tedd Robinson on 27 projects, some of which (e.g., TRUST) he co-authored and performed in as a musician-dancer at Canada’s leading dance festivals (FTA, VIDF, CDF, FND). Their collaboration culminated in 2018 with the co-creation of his first opera, Love and Other Things, presented at the National Arts Centre in Canada. The work began during a three-month CALQ residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (JP) in 2016.
His most recent opera, Loudspeaker Baptism, funded by the Kone Foundation, premiered at the Ooppera Kesä Festival in 2024. Now touring in Canada, it has received glowing reviews for its “ideal balance between formal innovation and emotional depth.”
Charles’ holistic, multidisciplinary approach to composition has led to international collaborations with musicians and ensembles redefining music performance, including Defunensemble (FI), Sound Initiative (FR), Sawtooth Duo (CA), Kollektiv Totem (CH), and Émilie Girard-Charest (QC). He also works with Finnish visual artist Maija Tammi, with whom he created The 1m³ of Human Experiment (Kiasma Theatre, Meidän Festivaali) and the 2020 exhibition Immortal’s Birthday at Forum Box, Helsinki. They are now working on their seventh video work, Care Fall.
In addition to composing, performing, and creating sound design for award-winning films, dance, and theatre, Charles teaches the Ritual and Sound workshop and is completing doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. His artistic research, funded by the SSHRC, is titled Sacred Technologies: Numinous and Grotesque Symbolism of Electronic Music Devices in Instrumental Theater.
Charles Quevillon (b. 1989) is a Canadian-Finnish composer and performer living in Helsinki. He collaborated for twelve years with choreographer Tedd Robinson on 27 projects, some of which (e.g., TRUST) he co-authored and performed in as a musician-dancer at Canada’s leading dance festivals (FTA, VIDF, CDF, FND). Their collaboration culminated in 2018 with the co-creation of his first opera, Love and Other Things, presented at the National Arts Centre in Canada. The work began during a three-month CALQ residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (JP) in 2016.
His most recent opera, Loudspeaker Baptism, funded by the Kone Foundation, premiered at the Ooppera Kesä Festival in 2024. Now touring in Canada, it has received glowing reviews for its “ideal balance between formal innovation and emotional depth.”
Charles’ holistic, multidisciplinary approach to composition has led to international collaborations with musicians and ensembles redefining music performance, including Defunensemble (FI), Sound Initiative (FR), Sawtooth Duo (CA), Kollektiv Totem (CH), and Émilie Girard-Charest (QC). He also works with Finnish visual artist Maija Tammi, with whom he created The 1m³ of Human Experiment (Kiasma Theatre, Meidän Festivaali) and the 2020 exhibition Immortal’s Birthday at Forum Box, Helsinki. They are now working on their seventh video work, Care Fall.
In addition to composing, performing, and creating sound design for award-winning films, dance, and theatre, Charles teaches the Ritual and Sound workshop and is completing doctoral research at the Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. His artistic research, funded by the SSHRC, is titled Sacred Technologies: Numinous and Grotesque Symbolism of Electronic Music Devices in Instrumental Theater.