Esther is primarily an acoustic composer with fixations on canon, folk song, words, colour, the internet, and human error. She loves 20^th and 21^st Century music (particularly minimalism and post-minimalism) and Renaissance music. She has a tendency towards being rather than going. She is also a fan of independent pop/rock/folk/etc. For her graduation project she drew from all these areas and composed an album in nine songs for chamber orchestra and soloists – sort of simultaneously a song cycle and orchestral pop record – called “Not Legendary” which she recorded and has since been distributing. A few days after she uploaded some of the songs to a CBC Radio 3 Artist Page, “Here Is How” became Craig Norris’ Track of the Day! Craig Norris has great taste. More information about “Not Legendary” may be found here.

Esther improvises and play new music too, and on November 25th, 2009, premiered three solo oboe (vegetable) miniatures: Doraji, by Narim Kim, Artichokes, by Amanda Lowry, and Radicchio by Jennifer Lynn del Duca. She has performed in many other new music concerts throughout her university career, including works by Wendell Glick, Rebekah Cummings, Andrew Mellanby, and Glenn Buhr.

Esther has been drawing the niche webcomic Obohemia since March of 2007. It slowly gained in popularity, and now has readers all over the world. An Obohemian comic was the impetus for a masterclass and recital given by Alex Klein, which became the MWM Financial Group Distinguished Artist Series at WLU.  Esther thinks this is pretty neat.

Currently she works in the Marketing Department at the KWS, writes music early in the mornings, cooks crazy vegetarian food, entertains her needy cat Q, and polishes her grad school applications.