Collected Strands released their first two albums - Volume 1 and Volume 2 - at the NAC in July 2024 and July 2025. Volume 3 was released in January 2026 as part of the DOMS concert series. These are also available for purchase and streaming. 

As a versatile improvising chamber ensemble, we play music that is created fully in the moment. Engaging with a diversity of styles, our music tends to be classical-focused, with influences from the Baroque, Romantic, and Contemporary art music practices, as well as middle-Eastern, folk music, and jazz styles, while we collectively improvise.

The performances we've given have been enthusiastically received, including our previous shows in 2023 and 2024 at the NAC, at Carleton University, and at MacKay United Church, and at Southminister in May 2024 in the DOMS Concert Series. Our performances are acoustic and evoke the traditional chamber music sound of a piano trio (violin, cello, and piano), while Mike adds timbrally on drums and percussion in a way that can create a colourful sonic texture or a compelling rhythmic groove. 

 

 

Collected Strands performing a workshop for high school students in the Carleton Mini-Course Program (May 2023).

New Recording is now out! Listen to the music here! You can also check out our video clips and on Facebook!  Many links to listen here 

Collected Strands at the NAC; photo by Curtis Perry

Collected Strands, from left - James McGowan, Raphael Weinroth-Browne, Leah Roseman, Mike Essoudry; photo by Curtis Perry