Five Minutes With: Toronto-based Musician Vivienne Wilder [Video]

Vivienne Wilder is a Toronto-based singer/songwriter and bassist whose music channels raw vulnerability, defiant resilience, and fleeting beauty through an alt-rock lens. Classically trained but forged in the neon glow of dive bars and restless touring circuits, her songs fuse confessional lyricism with a sharp-edged emotional intensity, delivered through a voice that swings effortlessly between haunting fragility and blistering ferocity.

Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Vivienne grew up in an obsessively musical household—her father was a classical bassist, and her mother a singer. She began violin lessons at age three, piano at four, and later followed her father’s path to upright and electric bass. By the time she was a teenager, she was performing professionally in string quartets and had become a sought-after player in jazz ensembles and alongside local singer-songwriters. She won a full-time chair in the Regina Symphony Orchestra and became a member of the National Youth Orchestra before …