Pandora Topp
Vocalist
Hailing from Mont St-Hilaire Québec, or Wigw8madensis (meaning ‘the small mountain in the shape of a house’), the traditional territory of the Waban-Aki, Pandora Topp is a nationally recognized bilingual artist, educator, entrepreneur and single mum of two adult children from N’Swakamok, (‘Where the Three Roads Meet’), Sudbury, Ontario, on the traditional lands of the Atikameksheng Anishnawbek. Her life’s work-in-progress is to explore and articulate how the embodied human voice contributes to individual and collective transformation and wellbeing.
Pandora has created and toured extensively with more than ten ensembles, the most celebrated being Café Piaf, with International Accordion Champion Iona Reed (Prague, 1962) since 1998. Her heartfelt interpretation of Édith Piaf’s repertoire has been featured on CBC, France’s TV5, at the National Arts Centre, the Francophone World Summit and at the French Embassy in Canada.
Since 1992 she has performed in the theatre, (working with the likes of Margaret Atwood, Tomson Highway, George F. Walker and Debajehmujig Storytellers), film & television, and music industries, sharing the stage with Michael Bublé, the Juno-nominated Silver Birch String Quartet, the Toronto Concert Orchestra, The Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra and most recently the Amici Chamber Ensemble.
In 2015 Pandora was honoured with the Northern Lights Festival Boreal Jackie Washington Award for her distinguished contribution to Northern Ontario’s cultural life and she was a nominee for the 2018 Ontario Arts Foundation Artist-Educator Award. In 2020 she was honoured with Sudbury’s Celebration of the Arts Award for Exceptional Achievement in the Arts. Pandora is currently in studio, workshopping her upcoming show, Stakeholder, an interdisciplinary offering about rupture and way finding, with fellow clown Christianna Burke, due to be staged in late 2026.
