Denise Djokic

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Denise Djokic (born November 13, 1980 in Halifax / Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian cellist.

Life

The daughter of music educators Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic played the piano and violin in her childhood and had her first cello lessons at the age of eight with her uncle Pierre Djokic . Other teachers were Olive Shaw and Shimon Walt . At the age of fifteen she was accepted into the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music , where she was tutored by Richard Aaron . She continued her education at the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz and as a Canada Council scholarship holder with Philippe Muller in Paris.

Djikoc has performed as a soloist with almost all well-known Canadian symphony orchestras (including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra , Toronto Symphony Orchestra , Vancouver Symphony Orchestra ), the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas , the North Carolina Symphony , the Syracuse, Portland and Santa Cruz symphony orchestras, the Aachen Symphony and others, and as a recitalist she has performed at the San Miguel de Allende International Music Festival in Mexico, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in New York, the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival and the Kohl Mansion Chamber Series in San Francisco.

She founded the SuperNova Quartet in 2001 with violinists Mark Fewer and Scott St. John (later replaced by Jonathan Crow ) and violist Douglas McNabney . She is also a member of the Triple Forte piano trio with David Jalbert and violinist Jasper Wood and has performed with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and the Omega Ensemble . With her parents and brother Marc Djokic , she participated in the St. Cecilia Society Series in Halifax and the Indian River Festival in Kensington. At the Toronto Summer Music Festival 2008 she gave the world premiere of Christos Hatzis ' In the Fire of Conflict with percussionist Ryan Scott and dancer Peggy Baker . She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Edmonton Symphony under William Eddins with John Estacio's Triple Concerto (with Angela Cheng and Juliette Kang ). At the Peninsula Music Festival 2016 she played with the festival orchestra under Victor Yampolsky Richard Prior's cello concerto.

She works regularly with David Jalbert, with whom she has appeared at the Phillips Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, at the Dame Myra Hess Series in Chicago and at New York's Bargemusic . Both were the subject of Paul Kimball's documentary Seven Days, Seven Nights (2002). Her album Folklore (2005) was nominated for the 2006 Juno Award and the East Coast Music Award for Classic Album of the Year. In 2008 an album of Benjamin Britten's cello sonatas was released .

Djokic won several music competitions. In 2002 MacLeans Magazine listed her among the 25 young Canadians who are changing our world . With Jalbert, her brother Marc and the clarinetist Jean-François Normand , she received the Opus Award of the Conseil québécois de la musique in 2009 .

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SURNAME Djokic, Denise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian cellist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Halifax (Nova Scotia)