Nia Devetzis
Nia Devetzis is a percussionist driven by the vivid and vast world of contemporary music, whether as a soloist or chamber musician. As a teaching artist, she is dedicated to education through performance and instruction, leading by example and questioning audience expectations by asking: What exactly is percussion?
Notable performances include solo engagements with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Calgary Wind Symphony, and Calgary’s contemporary music and sonic arts festival, Forms of Sound, as well as the Stratford Summer Music Festival. As a chamber musician, she is dedicated to the support of new music in Calgary as a core member of Timepoint Ensemble and has made appearances with The Rubbing Stone Ensemble and Land’s End Chamber Ensemble. In the realm of noise music and free improvisation, Nia has performed with Bug Incision and is a founding member of the Secret Lady Project.
Nia’s creative work expands across disciplines. She has been a collaborator for devised theatre works at the University of Calgary, including Conduct, Pierrot’s Gender Reveal Party, and Just Like the Moon, performing as a musician/actor. This work continues with Mudfoot Theatre on Yabber, where she has built instruments and musical puppets alongside story and music development.
She did foley design for Murder in the Studio with Vertigo Theatre, for which she won a Betty Mitchell Award.
