Anna Bigland-Pritchard

Igniting her music and community leadership with a contagious and inspiring passion for social justice, climate justice, mindfulness, and art-making for all, Anna Bigland-Pritchard (she/they) is a creative interdisciplinary vocal artist.

 

Working as a singer, voice teacher, music director, and (soon an) Expressive Arts Practitioner, Anna is passionate about using any medium available to empower creative, resilient, and resonant communities.

 

Anna grew up in England, Treaty 6 (Saskatchewan), and Treaty 1 (Winnipeg MB). She currently lives on the unceded territories of the lekwungen speaking peoples (Victoria BC).

 

Anna has a Bachelor of Music from Canadian Mennonite University, a Post-bacc in Performance from the University of Manitoba, and will complete a Certificate in Expressive Arts through the WHEAT Institute in 2026.

 

Anna is co-creator of Gay4Nature Collective, an indie opera+ collective that recontextualizes the classical western canon through a queer and ecological lens. Gay4Nature’s Canada Council for the Arts-funded short film Green has won awards internationally. She is also co-director of Gay4Choir, a queer&trans choral project.

 

Resourced by studies in Expressive Arts Therapy, in addition to her classical voice and musical theatre training, and experience with experimental and devised theatre over the past three years, Anna shares her vulnerable and joyful singing with pleasure and generosity. Through performing, producing, directing, teaching, and connecting, Anna seeks to influence and interrupt culture for the benefit of Mother Earth, via the sneaky power of creativity.

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Recent projects

With funding from Canada Council, Anna has been developing a new electronic micro-opera about a Hummingbird building her nest, hum with composer Jami Reimer and poet Sarah Ens. A development residency at the Yellow House Centre on Galiano Island was followed by performances of this work-in-progress in Galiano, at Burnaby Blooms festival, and in Victoria with the Gorge Waterway Action Society.  In 2025, she performed new and improvised works in collaboration with contemporary dancer, Veronique Emmett, at Impulse Theatre, sang in the chorus of Paul Walde's opera about the Fairy Creek Blockade, Forestorium, performed in HIV/AIDS devised ambient opera project i am beauty (MJ Coomber and Rick Waines), toured Bach's Coffee Cantata around the Gulf Islands with Gay4Nature Collective, and performed at Kerry Graham (of Salt Spring Baroque)'s fascinating baroque bassoon recital, along with many other songwriter/looping gigs.

 

Committed to music-making that is connected to land, community, and climate justice, Anna is grateful to perform often in collaboration with the Gorge Waterway Action Society recently, and to co-host an open mic for classical singers. Anna has recently received artist residencies at The Yellow House, LENA, Rivendell, and has received grants from the City of Victoria, The Capital Regional District, Small Neighbourhood Grants, and Canada Council for the Arts.