Mona Bates
Mona Hazelwood Bates (born October 31, 1889 in Burlington / Ontario , † March 29, 1971 in Toronto ) was a Canadian pianist and music teacher .
Life
Bates studied in Hamilton with JEP Aldous and in Toronto first with Edward Fisher and AS Vogt , from 1913 with Viggo Kihl . From 1912 she taught at the Royal Conservatory of Music (TCM) in Toronto. As a pianist she made her debut in 1914 in the Massey Hall with Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies. In 1916 she met Ernest Hutcheson in Chautauqua and was his student and assistant at the Juilliard School until 1920 . Later she continued her training with Sigismond Stojowski . She made her New York debuts in 1919 at the Lewisohn Stadium and the Aeolian Hall with works by Liszt and Beethoven ( Waldstein Sonata ). In 1921 she performed with the New York Symphony Orchestra under Frank Damrosch at Massey Hall in Toronto.
Her debut in Europe followed in 1922 at London's Aeolian Hall ; it was followed by a concert tour through Europe with performances in Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Paris, taking in Paris with Isidore Philipp and in Budapest with Zoltán Kodály . She recorded several Duo Art piano roles for Victor Records . In 1925 she ended her career as a pianist and founded a piano studio in Toronto, where Muriel Albert , Elsie Bennett , Madeline Bone , Margaret Miller Brown , Etta Coles , George Crum , Erica Goodman , Marian Grudeff , Gordon Hallett , John Knight , Warren Mold , Patricia Parr , Clifford Poole and Naomi Yanova Adaskin attended her classes. In 1931 she founded an ensemble of ten pianists with her best students, which performed for charitable purposes and during the Second World War as part of the Musical Manifesto Group in support of the Canadian troops. In 1967 his was one of six recipients of the Centennial Citation of the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations (CFMTA). Some of her students donated a scholarship to the Royal Conservatory on their behalf in 1976, the first recipients of which in 1978 were Erica Goodman and Lawrence Pitchko .
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| SURNAME | Bates, Mona |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bates, Mona Hazelwood |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian pianist and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burlington, Ontario |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1971 |
| Place of death | Toronto |