09/01/1989
My Parents
Adam Ben Ezra or Esperanza Spalding
Saturday Night Jazz with Laila Biali (CBC radio show)
Christian McBride
Yoga, Feldenkrais, Doggie Mom, Pet Sitting, Trail Walking, Baking, Reading, Golf, Jewelry Crafting, Karate, Painting Watercolour
09/07/1979
Ewald Hajek (former NSO violinist) was my first teacher – he was the string teacher at St.Patrick’s. Up until that point I didn’t know what a double bass was.
Gaslighter by The Chicks
My grandson would think it was amazing if Nanny could share the stage with The Wiggles. I have seen performances of the Wiggles with Symphony orchestras.
Knitting
09/01/1993
My high school music teacher, Mike Bergauer
Natalie Noseworthy
Any song on VOCM cabin party.
Photography
09/01/2009
I just always wanted to play…
Owen Pallett
Sufjan Stevens
Hiking, skiing, anything outdoors.
10/10/2005
Theo Weber
David Pomeroy
What’s a good song that’s currently playing on the radio?
Anything Julia Nesrallah plays on Tempo!
If you could open a show for any artist or tour, who would it be?
James Taylor
Web design, gardening, baking cakes
02/13/2009
My first music teacher. Mrs. Murray
Two Cellos
All You Need is Love
Cirque de Soleil
I enjoy gardening, drawing animals, collecting rocks, and painting rocks
09/01/2020
My parents and early teachers
Yo Yo Ma. Sounds trite, but he’s an amazing human being and musician
Oh man… I even have a teenager and don’t know any
2Cellos
Gardening, reading (usually Sci-Fi), hunting for the perfect gluten-free beer.
09/01/1984
Joan Woodrow. She was my piano teacher at the time but also taught cello. Her cello students would perform during our studio recitals and I loved it!
Martha Argerich – she is a BRILLIANT pianist and accompanist
What’s a good song that’s currently playing on the radio?
I don’t listen to the radio
U2
I love to cook and am making my way through a new cookbook, “Run Fast. Eat Slow”. My other passion is running, hence the cookbook. Running clears my mind. My most creative ideas come when I’m running
09/01/2013
Jacqueline Du Pre
Artisanal bread baking, knitting, gourmet cooking, playing the viola de gamba
09/01/2016
A childhood friend who started playing cello a year before me.
Edgar Meyer
All Hands – Tim Baker
I’m With Her
I maintain a growing collection of houseplants!
09/14/1993
Bonnie Hampton
Gerald Blackmore
Peaceful Easy Feeling
David Blackwood
Cooking, baking bread, and building things that go
01/08/2018
My father (Carl Stevenson)
John Williams
Roses
Supertramp
Model Railroading, Model Building, FRPG (as DM)
09/01/2018
My parents forced me! … But I would say my initial teachers (Angela Schneider, Joan Blackman, and the instructors at the Vancouver Academy of Music), as well as James Ehnes were my greatest inspirations in my youth.
Patrick Watson
Hell N Back by Bakar
The Marias
I enjoy hiking, dragon boating, watching most sports, and quidditch. Yes – it’s a thing, no – we don’t fly (yet), and yes – World Cup exists.
09/01/2016
My parents bought my first violin before I was born, so I never had much of a choice!
Mandolin player Chris Thile, I’m obsessed with how his brain works, and every collaboration he’s involved with is brilliant.
Ha! Hmm…I have Blinding Lights by The Weeknd on my “bangers” playlist. Are they still cool?
I’d love to tour with Dolly Parton. She seems like an absolute angel, and is the ultimate country/bluegrass icon!
I spend a lot of my free time learning new instruments (recently the banjo, and a Ukrainian instrument called the bandura), but I also love painting, cooking Ukrainian food, and I’ve recently learned how to keep a couple house plants alive
09/01/2019
Emile Benoit, James Ehnes and Django Reinhardt stand out among many.
Margaret Atwood
I don’t listen to the radio that much but have enjoying Robert Lippok’s Spotify Radio!
Tony Rice
I’ve recently been exploring making my own clothes!
09/01/2016
Mother; pianist and music teacher
Yo Yo Ma
Academic writing, gardening, officiating competitive swimming, travelling
09/01/2011
I have no clear memory of any one person who inspired me to learn the violin. I do remember the only violinist I saw growing up was a man who played violin at church. Later in life I can definitely say that I was inspired to continue to play by the other young musicians and faculty I met at the Kincardine Summer Music Festival.
My Dad, who claims he can only play the radio, but we all know he plays harmonica every chance he can get.
I rarely listen to the radio… BUT I am currently listening to Billy Sutton’s newly released album: Not a Word. (Available at Fred’s!)
No idea.
Oh my, I love so many things! Thankfully my husband never gets upset when I bring home more plants, canvases, or yarn.
09/01/2013
Many people along the way!
Kim Kashkashian
Hiking, cycling, swimming, gardening, cooking
09/11/2019
My grandmother
The Gryphon Trio
Metallica with the San Francisco Orchestra
I write short stories and am working on a novel. I also really enjoy reading just about any genre.
09/17/2012
My brother Andy
Boston Pops
Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
Who has time?
09/01/2020
I’m told that at age 2 I stood up and pretended to play along at a violin concert. I don’t remember this, but I am inspired daily to keep playing and striving to play better by the many wonderful musicians around me.
This is really hard to choose, but these days I am pretty into the amazing violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery.
What’s a good song that’s currently playing on the radio?
I don’t really know much about what’s on the radio, to be honest! But I kind of like “Here” by Alessia Cara. It’s an introvert anthem.
If you could open a show for any artist or tour, who would it be?
Oooh, I suppose it would be Joni Mitchell (if I could travel back in time to when she was performing), Broken Social Scene (ditto re: time traveling back to their heyday), and Owen Palett.
I love hiking and reading. And baking cookies. I am a lapsed knitter/crocheter, and I have occasional forays into visual art and creative writing, which were passions when I was a child that I hope to make more time for someday.
09/13/2010
Andrew Mercer and Yvonne Stellisano
Joanna Newsom
What’s a good song that’s currently playing on the radio?
Billie Eilish’s “No Time to Die“
If you could open a show for any artist or tour, who would it be?
Deerhoof
Writing poetry, painting, gardening, spending time with my kids.
09/01/2018
My parents forced me! … But I would say my initial teachers (Angela Schneider, Joan Blackman, and the instructors at the Vancouver Academy of Music), as well as James Ehnes were my greatest inspirations in my youth.
Patrick Watson
Hell N Back by Bakar
The Marias
I enjoy hiking, dragon boating, watching most sports, and quidditch. Yes – it’s a thing, no – we don’t fly (yet), and yes – World Cup exists.
09/01/2016
My parents bought my first violin before I was born, so I never had much of a choice!
Mandolin player Chris Thile, I’m obsessed with how his brain works, and every collaboration he’s involved with is brilliant.
Ha! Hmm…I have Blinding Lights by The Weeknd on my “bangers” playlist. Are they still cool?
I’d love to tour with Dolly Parton. She seems like an absolute angel, and is the ultimate country/bluegrass icon!
I spend a lot of my free time learning new instruments (recently the banjo, and a Ukrainian instrument called the bandura), but I also love painting, cooking Ukrainian food, and I’ve recently learned how to keep a couple house plants alive
09/01/1993
My school music teacher
Sting
Grace by Lil Baby, Ft. 42 Dugg
Sting
Sewing (embroidery and quilting)
09/01/2014
Nancy Case-Oates, my first teacher!
Brett and Eddy from TwoSet Violin
Sunday Best – Surfaces
N/A
I love hiking and sailing when the weather is good! And if not, I like to bake
09/01/2010
My Mother
George Benson
Rosanna
Toto
Basketball, Running, Biking, Gardening, Reading
09/07/2011
My Mother
Bomsori Kim
Watermelon Sugar
Hey Rosetta
Hiking, Baking, Photography
09/01/2016
A violinist from a concert at a summer music camp I attended as a child.
Chris Thile
Danish String Quartet
Bread and dessert baking, beginner sock knitter.
01/01/1972
My parents. Very supportive. My teacher at age 12
James Ehnes or Michael Legrand
None
Dalida or Michael Legrand
Musical composition, gardening, construction, antiques
03/01/2005
Joy of music
James Ehnes
Straus
James Taylor
Woodworking, sailing, skiing
09/01/2016
My family!
Classical Music – Hilary Hahn, Popular Music – Lauryn Hill
Any Khalid or Dua Lipa song!
Amy Winehouse (if she was still with us!)
Journaling, meditation, exercise
09/01/2006
Grandfather
James Ehnes
Unknown
Unknown
Gardening
09/01/1989
Dr. Andrea Rose
Roger Waters
The Weeknd – Blinding Lights
Pink Floyd
Reading, Video Games
09/17/2015
Going to a NSO concert when I was 6 and watching the violins shifting all over the place. I thought that was the coolest thing ever and I wanted to learn how to do that.
Eminem. I’m sure that’s not an answer you were expecting, but it would be an incredibly unique collaboration and no matter what you think of his material, you have to admit he’s a one in a million talent.
I haven’t listened to the radio in awhile.
Cirque du Soleil. The one time I was fortunate enough to see them, I was in a gloriously overwhelmed daze for literally two days. I have never experienced anything so amazingly postmodern in my life and I doubt I ever will again!! (Yes, I know they declared bankruptcy 🙁 )
I love writing, watching bad TV, talking to people, and I loved cuddling with my recently-deceased guinea pig Gilbert (passed at age 6).
09/01/2017
Family influence mostly, at first. Then friends, teachers, youth orchestra opportunities.
Yo-Yo Ma
Next question please.
The Rolling Stones
Keeping my 3 creative and bright daughters challenged and entertained!
09/05/2011
My parents started me and all my siblings in the Suzuki method when we were very, very young. My parents were always the ones keeping us going when we were young.
That’s a REALLY good question, there are so many incredible artists out there! Although, if given the chance to play with anyone, I’m the type of person who would rather disappear into the Appalachian mountains or the rural villages of Eastern Europe and find old fiddlers to learn from old fiddlers.
“You Gotta Run” by Buffy St. Marie and Tanya Tagaq. What a JAM!
I’m With Her or The Highwomen. Two incredible groups of outstanding musicians who I would love to spend time with on the road.
So many! Being outside, generally — hiking, swimming, sitting and reading in the park.
09/08/2006
My Dad
Too hard to answer!
No tears left to cry
The Once
Gardening, cooking
11/01/2016
I can barely remember when I started playing! But it was my teacher, Carla Furlong, who fostered my love for the instrument
I would love to collab with harpist Emmanuel Ceysson, his performance energy is inspiring
I don’t listen to the radio often. I stick to the oldies.
I would open for anyone – any chance to play!
I enjoy being outside and doing adventurous things like hiking and biking