Calliope’s Musical Director has been involved in most of our productions since 2018, composing and performing AND for HYDRA: The Spirit of Water he adds “large-scale installation artist” to his list of titles. A multi-instrumentalist and instrument maker, Teilhard Frost specializes in traditional Appalachian old-time music. He was raised on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, spending time with the elder fiddlers in the area. At the age of three, he was given a jaw harp and harmonica by his father, and his mother gave him a fiddle and a record of Kentucky fiddle tunes. He has continued to play them all ever since. As a teenager, he moved to Southern Ontario, where he took up the more ‘urban’ Saxophone, leaving the fiddle in the case for over ten years. Coupled with a keen interest in drumming, he pursued a career as a percussionist, co-founding the acclaimed Cuban Folkloric ensemble, Klave Y Kongo. In the ten years with Klave Y Kongo, the band hosted many Cuban artists including Eliados Ochoa and Quartetto Patria of Buena Vista Social Club fame. Yet after a while, he felt a responsibility to take his Great-Grandfather’s fiddle out of the closet and get re-acquainted with the tunes. His website is https://tfrostmusic.com/