Ethel Stark
Ethel Stark , CM , GOQ (born August 25, 1910 in Montreal ; † February 16, 2012 ) was a Canadian conductor, violinist and music teacher.
Life
Ethel Stark took first violin lessons from Alfred De Sève and then studied with Saul Brant at McGill University . From 1928 to 1934 she studied violin with Lea Luboshutz , chamber music with Louis Bailly and Artur Rodziński and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia . She also had violin lessons from Carl Flesch .
In 1934 she played a radio recording of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Fritz Reiner in the USA . She kicked u. a. with the Montreal Orchestra , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra , the CBC Montreal Orchestra and Les Concerts symphoniques de Montréal . In 1946 she recorded the world premiere of Violet Archers' Sonata for Violin and Pianoforte, dedicated to her, and Hugh Poynter Bell's Sonata with John Newmark at the piano for the CBC .
Stark was the founding director of the New York Women's Chamber Orchestra in 1938 . In 1940 she founded Canada's first all-women symphony orchestra, the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra , which she directed until the late 1960s. Finally, she founded the Ethel Stark Symphonietta in 1954 and the Montreal Women's Symphony Strings that same year , which lasted until 1968.
As a guest conductor, Stark u. a. with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (1946) and the Orchester Symphonique de Québec (1950), the Miami Symphony Orchestra (late 1950s and early 1960s) in the USA and with radio orchestras in Israel and Japan. In total, she participated in more than three hundred radio productions as a violinist or conductor.
Stark taught at the Catholic University of Washington in 1951 , then at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal until 1963 and at Concordia University from 1974 to 1975 .
In 1976 she received an award from the Concert Society of the Jewish People's Schools and Peretz Schools as an outstanding Canadian artist. In 1979 she became a member of the Order of Canada and in 2003 Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Québec .
Ethel Stark passed away on February 16, 2012 at the age of 101.
A park in Montreal was named after her. Parc Ethel-Stark is on the corner of Prince-Arthur Ouest and Clark streets.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ethel Stark, 1910-2012 - Jewish Montreal of Yesterday. In: jewishpubliclibrary.org. Retrieved March 14, 2012 .
- ^ Parc Ethel-Stark ( fr ) Ville de Montréal. Retrieved August 24, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strong, Ethel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian conductor, violinist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 2012 |