About

I’m Glenn James, a songwriter, composer, and pianist drawn to music that can hold contradiction: loneliness and connection, doubt and acceptance, tension and release. For me, music is one of the clearest places hope can still be found, and that sense of possibility is what keeps pulling me back to the piano, to songwriting, and to the work of shaping sound.

Ideas often arrive out of nowhere. I catch them quickly, then return to them later to figure out what they were trying to say. Sometimes that becomes a song, sometimes an instrumental piece, sometimes an arrangement shaped by strings, synths, and the search for the right atmosphere. I’m as interested in the process as the result. The play, the experimentation, and the small moments of discovery are part of what makes making music worthwhile.

My background in composition and piano includes classical training and a DMA in composition from UBC, but I’ve always been drawn just as much to the emotional directness of popular music. That pull between structure and intuition, craft and curiosity, is at the centre of what I make.