Fides Krucker (she/her)

Fides Krucker has sung and created award-winning work internationally for forty years. In 1991 she founded the music-driven, interdisciplinary ensemble URGE; their final work is published by Playwrights Canada. Her company, Good Hair Day Productions, produced Girl With No Door On Her Mouth, an electroacoustic monodrama; CP Salon, an R&B disability love cabaret/NFB film; Julie Sits Waiting, a sexual catastrophe opera (five Dora nominations); and In This Body, a song cycle with dance (Baker/Lemieux/Strauss) for Canadian Stage. She has worked extensively with Peggy Baker Dance Projects, and directed pieces by choreographers Louis Laberge-Coté and Jessica Runge. Her vocal creation for Erica Mott Productions’ 3Singers was praised for its “feminist jolt,” “avant garde sensibility” and “heartbreaking descant” in the Chicago Tribune. Her recording of Berio’s Folk Songs on Vancouver's Turning Point Ensemble’s Curio Box CD was noted for its “blazing theatricality and playful brilliance.” In 2019 she released the improvisational album Vanishing with Philadelphia guitarist Tim Motzer and was praised for her “staggering range and control. Krucker’s voice is less an instrument than a force of nature.” Her long awaited book Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female Voice through Undomesticated Singing was published by North Atlantic Books in 2022.

She studied Pochinko based clown in the mid 80s with David MacMurray Smith, taught for Sue Morrison at The Theatre Resource Centre in the 90s, and for John Turner at the Clown Farm in recent years. Fides loves working in the particularly rich creative milieu of clown. 

Voice Teacher: fideskrucker.com

Author: Reclaiming Calliope: Freeing the Female Voice through Undomesticated Singing