Born and raised in Kamloops BC, composer Stacey Brown has lived and worked in Montreal since 2002. Her musical output is diverse, ranging from solo, vocal, chamber, mixed and orchestral works to music for dance, theatre and film, to opera. Her creative projects demonstrate a marked interest in collaborative, interdisciplinary and multimedia environments and her music is performed throughout Canada. In addition to research and teaching, Stacey Brown also writes music analysis articles for the French journal L’Éducation Musicale. An Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre, a member of the Canadian League of Composers and a member of the Canadian New Music Network, she has also been active within the concert society Codes d’accès as a member of the Artistic Committee (2009-11) and previously as Treasurer (2006-07). Her composition teachers have included Michael Longton, John Celona, Michel Longtin and Denis Gougeon, and in 2011 she completed a doctorate at the Université de Montréal co-supervised by Isabelle Panneton and Caroline Traube. With research funding from the Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), Stacey Brown’s doctoral dissertation includes the composition of her second opera, Trahisons liquides, with original libretto by Sébastien Harrisson.