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Awards
• Winner of the 2004 Laurie Pallet Award for Lifetime Achievment in the Arts
• 2006 JUNO award nomination for Best Children’s Album for Peggy’s Violin, A Butterfly in Time
• One of 10 finalists of 1,200 active/retired teachers across Canada who were nominated for “Thank A Teacher Award”
Musical Education
1965, Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
1967 and 1968 National Youth Orchestra of Canada
1971 Beethoven Master Class with Max Rostal Koln, Germany
1972 Max Rostal Master Class, Berne, Switzerland
1973 Bachelor of Music Degree, University of Western Ontario
1974-76 Private studies with Ivan Galamian at Julliard
1975 Chigiana Academy of Music, Sienna, Italy (Master Classes with Salvatore Accardo)
1976 International String Workshop, Cambridge, England (Pedagogy classes with Paul Roland)
2005 Banff Chamber Music Residency
Teachers
Ralph Aldrich (viola)
Gwen Thompson (violin)
Ivan Galamian (violin)
Teaching
Private Studio teaching since 1973
Performance
Principal Second Violin in the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra
Management
Artistic Director of The Chamber Music Society of Mississauga since 1997