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FESTIVAL FACULTY
Virginia Barron Festival Associate Director, viola |
Violist Virginia Barron is equally adept as a chamber
player, orchestral musician and teacher. A native of Toronto, Canada,
Virginia received her training at the University of Toronto and the Manhattan
School of Music. Her major teachers include Lillian Fuchs, Kim Kashkashian
and Paul Armin. As an orchestral player, Virginia has performed with the
Chicago Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra, Canadian
Opera Company Orchestra and most recently the Toronto Symphony. Tours
with the Chicago Symphony over the past 10 seasons include concerts in
Berlin, South America, Lucerne, New York and Florida.
An ardent and experienced chamber musician, Virginia has been associated
for many years with the Colorado College Summer Music Festival as performer,
teacher and associate director.Other summer chamber music festivals include
the Ravinia Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Algonquin Music Festival
and the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival. She is also associate director
of the Sweetwater Chamber Music Weekend in Owen Sound, Ontario and has
recently performed with new music groups in Toronto such as New Music
Concerts and Soundstreams. A dedicated teacher who has taught many pupils
in her viola studio, she currently is on the faculties of the University
of Western Ontario and the University of Toronto. Virginia lives in London,
Ontario with cats Chuck and Percy and dog Zelda.
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