Performing

Film Music Magic

There’s nothing quite like the dance of live music to film.

I perform and curate audio-visual projects inspired by people, place and the human experience.

Through performing live music to contemporary silent film, I take audiences on a memorable journey as they reflect on their own lives and think about what next steps they might take to capture their own memories.

I’ve collaborated with filmmakers and musicians from Canada, U.S.A., South America, Europe and Scandinavia.

Upcoming Events

Ways We Can Work Together

  • Keynote Concerts at events focused on wellness, leadership and teamwork

  • Private Events

  • House Concerts

  • Festivals

  • School Concerts (elementary, high school, college and university)

  • Live Music for Yoga & Meditation Classes

  • It‘s easy to fall for the eclectic sounds of this creative mastermind, and you will probably get lost in your imagination while falling.

    Pamela Hodder, Rock Eden Magazine

  • Rozalind MacPhail knows no boundaries. A classically trained flutist and electro-music renegade, MacPhail has covered the length of the country playing her compositions and leaving art in her wake.

    Ken Simmons, The Telegram

Live Projects

  • Join multi-award-winning touring and recording artist, inspirational speaker, and Canadian flute innovator Rozalind MacPhail—sponsored by Di Zhao Flutes—for an inspiring and interactive 45-minute audiovisual performance and keynote titled REJECTION = REDIRECTION.

    In this engaging session, Rozalind will share her personal journey, including her experiences of being bullied in school, highlighting invaluable lessons from rejection and how to embrace it as a catalyst for growth.

    Drawing from her challenges—such as being flunked out of her master’s degree—Rozalind will discuss how these experiences transformed her dream of becoming an orchestral soloist into an exhilarating adventure as a one-woman orchestra performing live music for film. She will reveal how this unconventional path has proven to be more rewarding than she ever imagined.

    Attendees will learn practical strategies for dealing with rejection, cultivating resilience, and finding their unique voice.

    By the end of the session, participants will feel empowered to embrace their journeys, knowing that rejection can lead to unexpected and enriching opportunities. Don't miss this chance to gain insights from a true trailblazer in the music world!

    Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 45 minutes

  • Inspiration Soup is a 45 minute interactive keynote concert experience for live music, contemporary silent film and inspirational speaking. It’s aimed to inspire innovation, creation, collaboration and compassionate communication.

    Award-winning performer, coach, music educator and artist advocate, Rozalind MacPhail helps participants discover innovative ways to ignite their creativity, tap into their flow, communicate with empathy and bring out the best in others.

    She shares inspiring tips and tricks gathered from a lifetime of courage, resilience, rejection, persistence and luck.

    INSPIRATION SOUP was developed with the assistance of Business and Arts NL Creative Edge program. It has been featured at CB Nuit, MusicNL Week and the Unscripted Twillingate Digital Arts Festival.

    The length of this program is flexible. It can be shortened or lengthened to suit your event’s needs.

    Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 45 minutes

  • A special live music, storytelling and cinema event featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning performer Rozalind MacPhail.

    PUSH & PULL was largely inspired by MacPhail’s Digital Arts Residency in Twillingate through Unscripted Twillingate: Digital Arts Festival.

    During this residency, she was exposed to the oral traditions of the Twillingate region through various individuals she was connecting with.

    MacPhail observed how local history was being passed on from one generation to the next through storytelling. She felt a sense of urgency to document all of their stories so that these memories would never be forgotten by future generations.

    Using the lens of a singer-songwriter, she puts their stories at the center of each song as she shares stories and performs live music to film.

    Mode: In-person
    Length: 90 minutes

  • A special live music and cinema event featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning performer Rozalind MacPhail.

    Watch Trailer

    It tells a timeless story of self-discovery experienced by a young woman navigating her way through a vulnerable period in her life. Haunting, lonely, dreamy and deeply honest. The film adapts the Indigenous tradition of the vision quest and explores themes of attachment, loss and longing.

    MacPhail’s music score features moody vocals, electrifying flute loops and driving electronics reminiscent of Pink Floyd, Mazzy Star and New Order.

    Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 30 minutes with optional 15 minute Q&A by Rozalind after the performance

  • Flute Loops & Film takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey where live music, short film and storytelling weave together a tapestry about people, place and the human experience.

    Rozalind’s original live music scores combine multi-layered sound looping, traditional songwriting, field recordings and loads of effected flute, MacPhail’s specialty.

    Mode: In-person or Virtual
    Length: 60 minutes with an option for a 15 minute Q&A with Rozalind

  • MacPhail accompanies wellness classes with her uplifting original live music for flute and electronics. Experience heightened focus, energy. creativity and flow. Suitable for yoga and meditation classes of all levels, styles and lengths.

    Mode: In-person or Virtual
    Length: Flexible to suit every class and wellness retreat

Performance Highlights

TEDx St. John’s, National Flute Convention, Radio Sweden, CBC Radio, First Night Raleigh, Banff Centre, Live at Heart Sweden, Unscripted Twillingate Digital Arts Festival, NewFest, CB Nuit, Cameron Art Museum, Contact East, The Rooms, Cat's Cradle, Cat Fly Film Festival, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Canadian Flute Convention, Cucalorus Festival, NPR, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Nickel Film Festival, Festival of Small Halls, Stephenville Winter Jazz Festival, St. John’s International Women's Film Festival, Gros Morne Summer Music, Sound Symposium and MusicNL’s Music Celebration Week.

The Gaze -
Live in Halifax

Of the film, Shona Thomson says “The Gaze” is an experimental film inspired by a 1947 civic film I found during an artist residency at Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina. Fascinated by reactions to the camera, I picked out every moment a citizen gazes directly at us.”

TEDx St. John’s

A live performance of two films
from my Head First DVD project,
”Dempster Highway” and “Victoria Street”

 Technical Requirements

  • Rozalind - vocals, flutes and electronics mixed through Rozalind’s laptop while video is being projected through an HDMI projector

    Rozalind provides her own vocal microphone

    No stage monitors required

    Audio goes to the soundboard from Rozalind’s audio interface (2 balanced quarter-inch cables in stereo from an RME Babyface Pro)

  • Rozalind + laptop located on stage left or right to avoid blocking the audience view of the visuals

  • PA system with a soundboard that has a stereo input

    AV technician receives 2 inputs (stereo mix from RME audio interface) to the soundboard

    2 power cords

    1 boom mic stand

  • 1 Projection Screen (preferably a 16 foot x 9 foot screen or whatever is the most appropriate size for the performance space)

    Projector with HDMI capability

    1 HDMI Cable from laptop feed from the stage to the projector

  • Lighting should be able to be dimmed in the performance space so that the visuals can be seen clearly on the screen.

    Spotlight lighting provided on Rozalind (if possible in venue)