Raised and rooted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Zoe Leger is a vocalist, composer, producer, and artistic director whose work explores the expressive possibilities of the human voice across contemporary music, jazz, choral, and interdisciplinary performance. Her creative practice is grounded in a fascination with voice as both an intimate human instrument and a site for experimentation, collaboration, and new forms of musical expression.

Zoe is currently developing her second album, a major new recording project supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, with recording scheduled for January 2027. Her work continues to move fluidly between jazz, art-pop, experimental music, and contemporary vocal practice, bringing together emotionally direct songwriting, adventurous composition, and an expanding interest in sound, texture, and technology.

In 2027, Zoe will present her pedagogical research at the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Winter Workshop in New Orleans, where she was selected as the sole Canadian presenter from an international field of proposals. She has also been invited to participate in a composition residency at the Canadian Music Centre in Toronto in April 2027, where she will begin developing her next major creative project.

As a performer, Zoe has appeared in solo and ensemble settings across Canada and the United Kingdom. Her debut album, The Girl From Yesterday (2016), received nominations for Jazz Recording of the Year from both the East Coast Music Awards and Music Nova Scotia. Her compositional work spans solo voice, chamber music, choral works, jazz ensembles, and orchestra, with a growing focus on creating new repertoire that expands the expressive and technological possibilities of the voice. She collaborates with artists working across jazz, pop, contemporary, and experimental music, and is increasingly interested in creating immersive musical environments in which voice, composition, production, and sound design become inseparable.

Zoe is the founder and artistic director of the Atlantic Contemporary Vocal Institute (ACVI), an organization dedicated to advancing contemporary vocal artistry through exceptional educational experiences for emerging and established singers. She also maintains a private voice studio in Halifax and teaches at the Fountain School of Performing Arts at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Community College. An experienced educator, she works with professional performers, post-secondary students, fellow voice teachers, and dedicated amateur singers, integrating evidence-based vocal science with artistic expression to help singers develop healthy, versatile, and authentic voices.

Zoe holds a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies (Vocal Performance) from St. Francis Xavier University and a Master of Music in Jazz Composition from Birmingham City University (UK). She has completed advanced training in Somatic Voicework™ (The LoVetri Method) at Baldwin Wallace University and Acoustic Vocal Pedagogy through the Embodied Music Lab at the University of Michigan. She is an active member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing.