Shauna Rolston

Shauna Rolston (born January 31, 1967 in Edmonton / Alberta ) is a Canadian cellist.

The daughter of pianist Isobel Moore and violinist Thomas Rolston began playing the cello at the age of two; her first teacher was Claude Kenneson . At the age of four she played in a chamber music line-up with her parents, at the age of seven she had her first radio appearance and at the age of eight her first concert at the University of Alberta .

When she was twelve, her parents became co-directors of the Banff Center's musical program . There Rolston had the opportunity to perform with musicians such as Zoltán Székely , György Sebok , Luciano Berio , William Primrose , Igor Oistrach and Aldo Parisot and to make recordings with Menahem Pressler .

She joined the Banff Center for the Arts program to promote talent and attended master classes with Zara Nelsova , János Starker , Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Gabriel Magyar . At the age of fourteen she had lessons at the Geneva Conservatory with Pierre Fournier , then in Aldeburgh with William Pleeth , the teacher of Jacqueline du Pré .

In 1983 she made her piano debut with her mother in New York's Town Hall with a program in which she a. a. Violet Archers performed improvisation for cello solo, dedicated to her . In 1986 she began studying at Yale University with Aldo Parisot . There she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Art History (1991) and a Master of Music (1992).

Since her New York debut, Rolston has performed at concerts and festivals around the world, including a. under the conductors Krzysztof Penderecki , Mario Bernardi , Hans Graf , Andrew Davis , Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Marin Alsop , Pavel Kogan , Andreas Delfs , Keith Lockhart , Kenneth Jean , Uri Meyer , Peter Bay , Sam Wong , George Hanson , Andrey Boreyko and Yoav Talmi . In addition, she worked with chamber music a. a. with the Gallois Quintet , Menahem Pressler and the pianist Heather Schmidt .

Numerous composers have dedicated works to her, including Kelly-Marie Murphy , Heather Schmidt, Oskar Morawetz , Bruce Mather , Christos Hatzis , Chan Ka Nin , Krzysztof Penderecki, Gavin Bryers , Mark-Anthony Turnage , Rolf Wallin , Augusta Read Thomas , Karen Tanaka and Jean Coulthard . More recently she has performed double concerts by Karen Tanaka, Ron Royer and Kelly-Marie Murphy, a concerto for cello and orchestra with children's choir by Gary Kulesha and cello concertos by Chris Paul Harman and Larysa Kuzmenko .

Rolston has been a professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music since 1994 .

Discography

• The Romantic Cello , 1983
• Morawetz, Bruch, Fauré, Dvorak, Bliss , 1991
• Saint-Saëns: Chamber Works , 1994
• Cello Sonatas , 1995
• Elgar and Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos , 1995
• Intimate Baroque , 1995
• Strauss, Debussy and Barber Sonatas , 1995
• Squeezplay , 1997
• Les Disques SRC Collection , 1999
• Shauna Rolston, cello , 2001
• This Is the Color of My Dreams , 2001
• Shauna and Friends , 2004

Web links

• Homepage of Shauna Rolston