- Peter Oundjian
Peter Oundjian is a violinist and conductor, the youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother. He was educated in England, where he began studying the violin at age seven with Manoug Parikian. He then attended the Royal College of Music. He went to New York to study at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, Itzhak Perlman, and Dorothy Delay. In 1980, he won First Prize at the International Violin Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile. - Andrew Davis
Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE (born 2 February 1944) is a British conductor. Davis was born in Ashridge in Hertfordshire and studied at the Royal College of Music, King's College, Cambridge where he was Organ Scholar, and in Rome with Franco Ferrara. The first major post he held was as associate conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, a job he took in 1970. In 1975, he took the job of principal conductor with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Jukka-Pekka Saraste is a Finnish conductor. He trained as a violinist, and later studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy with Jorma Panula, in the same class as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Osmo Vänskä. With the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (YLE), Saraste was co-principal second violinist and later an associate to Leif Segerstam. He was chief conductor of the YLE from 1987-2001, and is currently its Conductor of Honour. - Bramwell Tovey
Bramwell Tovey joined the VSO as Music Director in September 2000. Since September 2002 he has also been Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. From 1989 to 2001 he was Artistic Director of the Winnipeg Symphony where he established the WSO's New Music Festival as one of the premiere new music events in North America. - Ernest MacMillan
Sir Ernest Alexander Campbell MacMillan CC (August 18, 1893; died May 6, 1973) was an internationally renowned Canadian orchestrial conductor and composer. His notoriety for choosing slow tempos when conducting earned him the affectionate name "Lord Largo". MacMillan was born in Mimico, Ontario. A child prodigy, he gave his first organ recital at the age of ten. After studying in London at the Royal College of Organists, … - Jacques Israelievitch
Jacques Israelievitch is a French violinist. At 11 years old he was the youngest graduate in the history of the Le Mans Conservatory. He went on to study at the Paris National Conservatory, receiving three first prizes at age 16. He also studied at Indiana University with Josef Gingold, János Starker, William Primrose and Menahem Pressler. Israelievitch also performs as a soloist and chamber musician. - Joel Quarrington
Joel Quarrington (born January 15, 1955), is a Canadian double bass player and soloist. He was born in Toronto, and began playing the double bass at the age of eleven in order to complete a bluegrass trio with his brothers, Paul Quarrington and Tony Quarrington. At the age of thirteen, he began to study with Thomas Monohan, who was at the time the principal bassist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He also studied under Peter Madgett, who is still a member of the TSO. - Stephen Hough
Stephen Hough (born November 22, 1961) is a British-born classical pianist and composer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005. Hough was born in Heswall (then in Cheshire) on the Wirral Peninsula, and grew up in Hoylake, where he began piano lessons at the age of five. In 1978, he was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition. In 1982, he won the Terence Judd Award in England. - Steven Dann
Steven Dann (born December 27, 1953) is a prominent Canadian violist. Dann was born in Burnaby, British Columbia. He played the violin until 1970, when he switched to the viola. He began studying with Lorand Fenyves in Toronto in 1972, and continued his studies until he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1977. During this time, he also studied with Robert Pikler in Australia, as well as William Primrose and Bruno Giuranna. - Victor Feldbrill
Victor Feldbrill, OC, O.Ont, FRHCM, (born April 4, 1924) is a Canadian conductor and violinist. He attended Harbord Collegiate Institute at an early age. From 1973 to 1978, he was the Resident Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 1974, he founded the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and was its conductor until 1978. In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1999, he was awarded the Order of Ontario. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto. - Louis Lortie
Louis Lortie CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a French-Canadian pianist. He is known for his interpretation of Ravel, Chopin and Beethoven. He is an international soloist, and has made over 30 recordings on the Chandos label. Born in Montreal, Louis Lortie made his debut with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of thirteen and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra three years later. Soon after he performed an historic tour of the People’s Republic of China and Japan. - Raffi Armenian
Raffi Armenian (born June 4, 1942) is an Armenian-Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher. Armenian was born in Cairo and had his first music lessons there, moving in 1959 to Vienna to study piano with Bruno Seidlhofer. After graduating, he put his musical studies aside and attended the University of London from 1962 to 1965, where he majored in metallurgy. He returned to the Vienna Academy of Music and studied from 1965 to 1969. - Walter Susskind
Jan Walter Susskind, was a Czech-born British conductor. He conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Susskind was born in Prague. His father was a Viennese music critic and his Czech mother was a piano teacher. At the State Conservatorium he studied under Josef Suk (Dvořák’s son in law and grandfather of the violinist Josef Suk). He later studied conducting under George Szell. - Robert Aitken
Robert Aitken (born August 28, 1939 in Kentville, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian composer and flautist. He has played with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, CBC Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - Klaus Tennstedt
Klaus Tennstedt (Merseburg, Germany, June 6, 1926 - January 11, 1998) was a German conductor. He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became concertmaster of the orchestra at the Halle Municipal Theatre in 1948. However, a finger injury stopped his career as a violinist, and afterwards he worked as a coach to singers at the same theatre. Tennstedt then directed his talents toward conducting. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, … - Günther Herbig
Günther Herbig is a German conductor. He studied conducting with Hermann Abendroth, Hermann Scherchen and Herbert von Karajan. After operatic jobs in Erfurt and Potsdam, he held principal conductor positions with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra and the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. In 1984 he emigrated to the USA. Since then he has worked with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - Jane Glover
Jane Glover (born 13 May 1949) is a British-born conductor who is Music Director of the Chicago's Music of the Baroque. Having read Music at St Hugh's College, Oxford, she went on to complete a DPhil on 17th century Venetian Opera. She holds a number of honorary degrees from several universities, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. In December 2005, she conducted Handel's Messiah with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. - Eve Egoyan
Eve Egoyan is a concert pianist who specializes in the performance of new works. Her intense focus, command of the instrument, insightful interpretations, and unique programmes welcome audiences into unknown territory, bridging the gap between them and contemporary composers. Composers have a uniformly high regard for her performances of their works, often considering them definitive. - Jasper Wood
Jasper Wood (born April 29, 1974 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian concert violinist. Jasper Wood was born into a musical family of six brothers and sisters in Moncton, New Brunswick and gave his first public performance at the age of five. Mr. Wood holds a master of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with David and Linda Cerone. An acclaimed competition winner, Jasper Wood has won numerous prizes and awards in the United States, Canada, and Europe. - Steven Staryk
Steven (Sam) Staryk is a Canadian violin virtuoso. He is of Ukrainian descent. He went to Harbord Collegiate Institute when he was young. As a renown teacher, orchestral and chamber musician, and international soloist, he is considered to be the leading Canadian-born violinist of his generation. "The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada" describes him as “one of the most assured” technical players of the 20th century. In 1951, he was one of the symphony six, … - Karel Ančerl
Karel Ančerl was a great Czech conductor, respected for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers. His recordings with Czech Philharmonic Orchestra acquired many international awards (several times Golden Harmony Award, Grand Prix du disque, etc.) and digitalized set of them with the name “Karel Ančerl Gold Edition” (42 CD) was awarded by Grand Prix du disque de l´Académie Charles Cross. - Stuart Laughton
Stuart John Laughton (born August 19, 1951, St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. He was an original member of Canadian Brass in 1970, but left the group the following year to attend the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. While still a student Laughton was appointed principal trumpet of La Scala Opera, by Claudio Abbado. Returning to Canada Stuart Laughton established a reputation as a trumpet concerto soloist (with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, … - Stephen Fox
Stephen Fox is a clarinetist, saxophonist and clarinet maker based in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. He is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost makers of custom, hand-built professional clarinets. Born in England, Fox completed a master's degree in physics at the University of Saskatchewan before earning a degree in clarinet performance. He began a career in instrument repair in 1985 and started making clarinets in 1990. - Richard Raymond
Richard Raymond (born in 1965 in Campbellton, New Brunswick, Canada) is an award-winning, Canadian pianist. He has performed with the Toronto and Montreal Symphony Orchestras, but is most known for his solo chamber music recitals and recordings. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton and chair of the piano area at McGill University s Schulich School of Music. - Adrian Anantawan
Adrian Anantawan is an Ottawa-born Canadian violinist. Anantawan, who began studying violin at age nine, has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and has performed at the White House. He is an alumni of Etobicoke School of the Arts. - Stephan Moccio
Stephan Moccio (b. 1972) is a pianist, composer, producer, arranger and artist. He co-wrote Celine Dion's 2002 hit "A New Day Has Come" with Aldo Nova, which reached and held the number one spot on the Billboard charts for 21 weeks.<br /><br /> An accomplished piano player, Stephan studied at The University of Western Ontario. After completing an honours degree in composition and piano performance, he was accepted into the famed Berklee College of Music. - Walter Prystawski
Walter Prystawski is a Canadian violinist. Prystawski studied at the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and with Austrian violinist Wolfgang Schneiderhan. In June 2006 he retired as concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada. He was the founding concertmaster of this orchestra in 1969. He is the former concertmaster of the Lucerne Festival Strings and the Basler Orchester Gesellschaft in Basle, Switzerland. - Eugene Rittich
Eugene Rittich (15 August 1928 - June 18 2006) was a Canadian musician who taught horn, chamber music, conducting and ensemble master classes and seminars for over 30 years in Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to his seminars, Rittich's services as advisor, adjudicator and jury member for Arts Councils, Universities, Music Festivals, … - Fraser Elliott
Roy Fraser Elliott (November 25, 1921 - January 26, 2005) was a Canadian lawyer, supporter of the arts, and philanthropist. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, a son to Colin Fraser Elliott (at one time, the Deputy Minister of Finance of Canada) and Marjorie Sypher, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1943 from Queen's University, a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1946, … - Harold Sumberg
Harold Sumberg is an American-born Canadian violinist, teacher, conductor, and adjudicator. Born in Rochester, New York, he studied violin with Carl Markees, Henry Holst, and Willy Hess at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin (now the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler). Sumberg taught for many years at the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto) and founded the Conservatory String Orchestra in 1941. - Caroline Leonardelli
Caroline Leonardelli is a French-Canadian world renowned harpist. Caroline began to study the classical harp in France at the age of seven as a student at the Paris Conservatory and with Lily Laskine, one of the most celebrated harpists of the 20th century. After arriving in Canada, Caroline continued her studies with Judy Loman, world-renowned harp player and Toronto Symphony harp soloist. Caroline is well known throughout Canada as an accomplished classical harpist, … - Andrew Paul MacDonald
Andrew Paul MacDonald, a Canadian composer, was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1958. He earned a DMA in Composition at The University of Michigan in 1985. His compositions have been performed in many countries including England, Norway, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey, the United States and Australia, as well as in Canada by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, "l'Orchestre symphonique de Montréal", the Esprit Orchestra, … - Joseph Lerner
Joseph Lerner (Born 1972, in Tehran) is an Iranian-Canadian composer, conductor and motivational coach. He began his musical studies in violin at the age of 8 and in piano at the age of 11 in Tehran, Iran. Later on he joined the Iran's National Conservatory Chamber Orchestra as a violinist, and was soon thereafter appointed as the assistant conductor for the NTO. - Kam Ning
Violinist Kam Ning was born in 1975 in Singapore, daughter of artist, violinist and composer Kam Kee Yong. A recipient of the National Arts Council’s Young Artist Award in 2000, Kam was first given violin lessons at the age of six by her violinist and composer father Kam Kee Yong. In 1987 she received scholarships from the Lee Foundation and Shaw Foundation to study in the Yehudi Menuhin School, … - Martin Turnovský
Martin Turnovský is a Czech conductor. Turnovský was born in Prague. He studied conducting at the Prague Academy of Music as a pupil of Karel Ancerl and George Szell. He won first prize at the International Conductors Competition of 1958 in Besancon, France. During the 1960s, Turnovský was appointed chief conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra Plzeň (1963-66), the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Semperoper (1966-68), the Norwegian State Opera (1975-80), … - Ralph Sauer
Ralph Sauer is an American trombonist and teacher. Sauer is the recently retired Principal Trombonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Sauer joined the orchestra in 1974, after serving as the Principal Trombonist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for six years. During that time, he was also the Principal Trombonist with the Canadian Opera Company and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and taught at the University of Toronto. - Donald Whitton
Donald Whitton was the former principal cellist of the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) in Ottawa, Canada. Prior to that, Whitton was a member of the CBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), both in Toronto. He studied cello with Leonard Rose and Cornelius Ysselstyn. Whitton is a cello teacher, and was the member of several music groups including: The Jack Groob Trio and the Jack Groob String Quartet, the Toronto Baroque Ensemble (1958-1963), … - Sharon Coste
Sharon Coste French Soprano of Canadian origin. Recipient of several prizes and awards, among which at the Geneva, Paris, Toulouse and Bilbao international competitions, the Voix d’Or Prize (France), and the Mozart Prize of the Canadian Opera Company, soprano Sharon Coste has sung on numerous European and North American opera stages including the Opéra National de Paris-Bastille, the Opéra National du Rhin, Florida Grand Opera, the Opéra de Nantes, … - Reva Gerstein
Reva Appleby Gerstein CC (born 27 March 1917 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian psychologist and educator. She was the first woman Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario from 1992 to 1996. A pioneer in Canadian mental health, she helped establish the Hincks Treatment Centre for adolescents, the Gerstein Crisis Centre for psychiatric patients and initiated Mental Health Week. Reva Appleby married Bertrand Gerstein on 5 June 1939 at Toronto's Holy Blossom Temple. - Hank van Sickle
Hank Van Sickle (born December 31, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an electric and upright bassist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California. His father Rodney Van Sickle is a classically trained double bassist who graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and played in the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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