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Krystel Rose Tretter makes music. Music for people who remember when instruments were more than keys on a synthesizer or an adjustment in Logic Pro. Music for people who listen to the music itself rather than waiting impatiently for a catchy refrain. Classical music. Music that is best heard echoing though a 17th Century cathedral rather than the earbuds of the latest iPod.

Krystel lives in Ottawa where she teaches vocal music and sings with the Cantata Singers of Ottawa. Her personal website includes original music licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Canada licence. This enables her to publicly release her work to the widest possible audience while ensuring that some rights remain reserved. In other words, a Creative Commons licence empowers creators to determine in advance how their work can be used. This leaves artists like Kristel Rose Tretter free to do what they do best: make more music.