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Meran Currie-Roberts (cello), Meran Currie-Roberts is currently one of Toronto's most active cellists. Recent chamber music appearances have included performances at the Glenn Gould Studio, Festival of the Sound, Elora Festival, Festival Ibero Americano (Puerto Rico), Huntsville Festival, Festival Vancouver, Toronto Music Garden, and Barrie's Colors of Music. As an orchestral performer, she plays with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony, Orchestra London, the Windsor Symphony, Tapestry New Opera, and the Thunder Bay Symphony. An active recording musician, Meran has recorded for CBC records, the NFB, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio 2's "Music Around Us" and "In Performance". Meran maintains a studio of private students and has taught and performed at the Kincardine Festival, Interprovincial Music Camp, Music at Port Milford, and the University of Toronto. She is a certified Suzuki teacher and holds a teaching diploma from the Victoria Conservatory of Music. She has an M.Mus from UofT, where she studied with Shauna Rolston. Susan Gagnon (cello), Principal contributor to new RCM cello syllabus. RCM examiner. Adjudicator and workshop teacher in Montreal and Ontario area. RCM faculty since 1984. Member Hamilton Philharmonic and String Quartet Panache. Mus. B., U. of Western Ontario. Master Classes with Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi. Rachel Handman (violin), Extensive work with alternative string styles: Bolivian Salsa Band, Guapacha, Accoustic Folk Bluegrass Band, Barebones and Wildflowers. Healing Through Music Project. Has accompanied Richie Havens, Livingston Taylor, Roberta Flack, Ray Charles among others. Member Tourmaline String Quartet, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Ridgefield Symphony. Rohan Gregory (violin), Member, award-winning Arden String Quartet. Wide-ranging interest in chamber music, including performance with Klezmatics and Itzhak Perlman, tours to Thailand with flutist Abbey Rabinovitz, to India with the Indo-jazz group Natraj, and nationally with the SophiaBilides Greek Folk Ensemble. Active freelancer throughout New England, has played with Boston Symphony, B.S.O. Pops, Boston Ballet Orchestra and Boston Lyric Opera. Coached for Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. Mus.B. from Oberlin Conservatory with Marilyn McDonald; M.M. from Univ. of Mass. with Charles Treger. Angela Rudden (viola - Session II), Principal violist National Ballet, member Canadian Opera Co. Performances as soloist and chamber musician in Europe and Japan. Private teaching studio, Toronto. Mus.B. Queens U., M.M. Musik Hochschule Munich. Paul Widner (cello - Session II), is active as a cellist in Toronto and has performed throughout Erope, the United States and Canada as soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. He is on the faculty of the Glenn Gould School and the University of Toronto and is the assistant principal cellist of the Canadian Opera Company orchestra. His expertise and specialty has been in contemporary music. He is the principal cellist with the Esprit orchestra, founding member of the Continuum ensemble and performs regularly with New Music Concerts, Arraymusic and Soundstreams. He has debuted and commissioned numerous Canadian works. He has recently performed as soloist in the North American premiere of the Penderecki "Triple Concerto" and "Seven Words" by Sofia Bubaidulina. Mr. Widner records with CBC records and other independent labels. He has performed at numberous music festivals including Huddersfield, Chicago, Amsterdam, Athens as well as the Edinburgh Festival.
Rebecca Kenneally, Conductor and Mezzo-Soprano is Director of Choral Activities and Musical Theater at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. In addition, she conducts GirlChoir, a professional high school ensemble in Chestnut Hill, Ma., directs the Old North Church Youth Choirs and teaches privately. She was previously Director of the women’s chorus and Assistant Director of choral activities at New England Conservatory of Music. Ms. Kenneally has directed "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying…," "Damn Yankees," "Really Rosie," and "Newsies". Recently, she co-directed the children’s chorus for the Boston Lyric Opera’s production of The Little Prince at the Schubert Theater.
Michael Newnham (orchestral conductor), Music Director: Peterborough Symphony Orchestra, New Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, Northumberland Orchestra and Choir, Mississauga Youth Orchestra, Kawartha Youth Orchestra. He is an alumnus of the Indiana University School of Music and of the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. Former Conductor of the Warsaw Chamber Opera and Professor of Conducting at the Taegu-Hyosung University in South Korea. Conductor of Gala Concert for Pope John Paul II at Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
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The Tokai String Quartet was formed in August 2002, and since this time they have made themselves known as one of Toronto's finest young ensembles. While its members come from a range of cultural backgrounds - Canada, Russia/Israel, Hungary and South Africa - the quartet strives for musical unity in its explorations of the traditional repertoire, as well as works by contemporary composers. The Tokai Quartet was awarded the Felix Galimir Chamber Music Award at the University of Toronto in 2003, which led to exciting performances in collaboration with Scott St John, Douglas McNabney and most recently, the St Lawrence Quartet. They have performed at the University of Toronto's Walter Hall and Art Centre, at McGill University, in Barrie at the 'Colours of Music' Festival and at Toronto's Music Garden and Heliconian Hall. The quartet has also attended masterclasses given by the Emerson, Ying and St Lawrence Quartets, and received regular coachings from the late Prof. Lorand Fenyves. 4th Place BANFF 2007! (
The Windermere String Quartet was formed in the spring of 2005 to perform the music of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and their contemporaries on period instruments. The Quartet is rapidly gathering notice for its dynamic performances and distinctive sound. Violinists Rona Goldensher and Cristina Zacharias, violist Anthony Rapoport, and cellist Laura Jones are well known to audiences as long-time performers with leading period instrument ensembles throughout Canada and the U.S., between them performing with Tafelmusik, Toronto Consort, Aradia, Theatre of Early Music (Montreal) Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), Aston Magna (New York), and many others. Along with their wealth of experience in Baroque and Classical styles, the members of the Windermere String Quartet have a wide range of musical tastes and have also been acclaimed for their performances with such groups as Sinfonia Toronto and Talisker Players and Klezmer music with the ensemble HuTsaTsa. These eclectic interests bring a freshness and passionate spontaneity to their performances. (
