Fiona Marchetto is a multi-genre composer and performer who is fascinated by how music can be a driving force in storytelling. She has performed in multiple opera productions, served as concertmaster at the Trentino Music Festival and Opera McGill, and collaborated with indie bands like Hot Little Rocket and the Shiverettes, opening for Death Cab for Cutie.

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Fiona hosted the award-winning Classicool on CJSW and was commissioned by the American Modern Ensemble, with her work Bedtime Stories premiering at the 2024 Mostly Modern Festival. She recently completed her B.Mus. at McGill University under the guidance of Andrew Wan, Nicole Lizée, and Chris Paul Harman, and has had several of her works performed through the McGill Association of Student Composers. She also scored Impressions, a short film by Kendall Scully, released the single your eyes only, and placed third at the inaugural Arts and Letters Club of Toronto’s Emerging Canadian Composer Competition.

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As a composer, Fiona strives to write music that reflects her identity and brings stories to life. This translates into writing music for the stage and screen. Her recent compositions are rooted in the concept of ekphrasis: a mode of intertextuality with Greek origins. Though often a verbal medium that describes, expands, and comments on a visual artistic work, Fiona has extended this approach to music.

Studying classics has taught her about art that survives the test of time and has helped her hone creative skills and understand artistic voice. She is interested in exploring her relationship to classical works through music, and often uses acoustic spatialization, aleatoric notation, and non-classical references to engage in dialogues with existing artworks.

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Recent compositions include Dramatis Personae, a suite for solo strings based on Shakespearean characters, and I Ask Myself, for 23 string instruments, which draws on non-classical musical elements to tell the story of her life in Montreal.