LISA PATTERSON BIOGRAPHY & DISCOGRAPHY
Bio
An endorsee of YSL Pro Lisa Patterson is an award-winning music creator and entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada. She has been championing collaboration, inclusion and equity across 4 continents for the past 25 years.
An obsession with sonic architecture started as a 10-yr-old walking around with a mic and portable tape deck recording farm machinery. Classical piano training began at age 6, taken over by learning pop songs at 12, and then a foray into flute & alto sax study via high school swing band. After completing a 3-yr college music production & engineering program Lisa toured internationally in original bands for 10 years. She left the road to immerse in mentorships with ground-breaking educators Trichy Sankaran, Casey Sokol and David Mott at Toronto's York University. Explorations at York led to reconnecting with family music roots and inspired the writing and releasing of original songs blending Romanian & Scottish influences with contemporary songwriting.
Freelancing as a producer and engineer in various studios over the years this audio obsessed kid landed in her power in 2005, opening her own studio in Toronto. Lisa brings an expressive acoustic musicianship attitude to electronic cinematic sound design. Writing spirited string & horn arrangements for pop music is a passion and a forte. She's produced albums, EPs & singles for contemporary Roots, Pop, Folk, Indigenous, Jazz and culturally diverse artists including Haitian-Canadian Melissa Laveaux's breakthrough debut album Camphor and Copper for No Format / Universal and Indigenous artist Brenda MacIntyre's #1 charting Reverb Nation album Medicine Song. Between 2000 - 2017 she released 4 original albums and 5 official videos; garnered AAA Top Ten single internationally, Campus & CBC radio charting; sync placements; Rough Trade European distribution; tours and performance collaborations in Europe, India, Mexico and U.S.
Career Highlights
2020 SOCAN Foundation
Master classes with Juno-award winning & Polaris Prize nominated, producer-songwriter Lantz (Jazz Cartier, Charmaine).
2019 Music Publishers Canada
One of five producers selected for inaugural Women In The Studio cohort.
Production Collaborations:
> Lantz
Juno award-winning (Charmaine, Jazz Cartier).
> Michael Phillip Wojewoda
Juno & Polaris Prize winning (Bare Naked Ladies, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Great Big Sea);
> Adam Messinger
Grammy-nominated & Juno award-winning (Magic!, Iggy Azalea, Justin Bieber).
Vocal Production:
> Alysha Brilla 3X Juno-nominated
> Calypso Rose WOMEX 2016 Artist of the Year
> Lillian Allen Juno award-winning Dub Poet icon
> Medicine Song Woman Brenda MacIntyre award-winning Indigenous artist
Songwriting Collabs:
> Esma / sameasme Canada's Music Incubator Prize winner
> Drew Gonsalves Juno-nominated (Kobo Town)
> Aviva Chernick Juno-nominated (Jaffa Road)
> Donne Roberts Juno award-winning (African Guitar Summit) + nominee for solo album 2022
TV / FILM / DOC SYNC
Awaiting Atwood - Indie feature; Director Beth Mairs.
Roadkill - Feature; Director Bruce McDonald.
Tete A Tete - Short; Director Charles Johnston.
H - Feature; Director Darrell Wasyk
Three Sisters On Moon Lake - Indie feature, Director Ingrid Veninger.
Discography
>>> RECENT HIGHLIGHTS <<<
SINGLE Cheater - Sloane Duffy
Co-Producer/writer, Recording Engineer
2023
ALBUM Circle - Alysha Brilla
Recording Engineer
2022
SINGLE Inside Every Mistake - Izzy al jabri
Producer, Co-writer, Recording & Mix Engineer
2022
SINGLE Space From Each Other - Nova Carver-Cook
Producer, Co-writer, Recording & Mix Engineer
2022
SINGLE De Sur A Norte - Karla Garcia
Producer, String Arranger, Recording & Mix Engineer.
2022
SINGLE Only Love - Andrea Florian
Producer, String Arranger, Recording Engineer.
2021
>>> PAST HIGHLIGHTS <<<
ALBUM Camphor & Copper - Melissa Laveaux
Producer, Recording & Mix Engineer
ALBUM The Birth of Sprawl - Rita di Ghent (Urban Jazz). Co-Producer, Assistant Engineer
ALBUM Medicine Song - Medicine Song Woman Brenda MacIntyre
Producer, Recording & Mix Engineer
ALBUM Truths - Andrea Florian
Producer, Recording & Mix Engineer.
ALBUM Second Palla - Toronto Tabla Ensemble
Assistant Engineer.
>>> LISA PATTERSON ARTIST RELEASES <<<
ALBUM Lumina (2013) Independent
SINGLES Dulce Dolor; Silver Lining; Hymn To Her.
Co-Producer, Assist Engineer.
Co-Produced,Recorded & Mixed by Michael Phillip Wojewoda
ALBUM Points of Departure (2008) Phd Canada distribution
Producer, Recording & Mix Engineer
ALBUM Roam (2005)
Rough Trade Records (Europe).
Festival Distribution (Canada).
SINGLES Need Each Other; Say Goodbye.
Co-Producer, Arranger.
Co-Produced, Recorded & Mixed by Adam Messinger
ALBUM This Is What It Sounds Like (2000) Independent.
Producer, String Arranger.
Recorded & Mixed by Nick Blagona
OFFICIAL VIDEOS
Can't Stand By (2017)
The Colour Of Blood (2016)
Whole World (2013)
Aphrodite (2004)
This Time (2002)