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 Aldo Parisot
Long acknowledged as one of the world’s master cellists, Aldo Parisot has led the career of a complete artist—as concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist and teacher. He has been heard with the major orchestras of the world, including Berlin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Rio, Munich, Warsaw, Chicago, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh under the batons of such eminent conductors as Stokowski, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Mehta, Monteux, Paray, Carvalho, Sawallisch, Hindemith and Villa-Lobos. As an artist seeking to expand his instrument’s repertoire, Mr. Parisot has premiered numerous works for the cello, written especially for him by such composers as Camargo Guarnieri, Quincy Porter, Alvin Etler, Claudio Santoro, Joan Panetti, Yehudi Wyner and Villa-Lobos, whose Cello Concerto No. 2 (written for and dedicated to him) was premiered by Mr. Parisot in his 1955 New York Philharmonic debut. Since then, he has appeared with the Philharmonic on nearly a dozen occasions.
Born in Natal, Brazil, Mr. Parisot began studying the cello at age seven with his stepfather, Tomazzo Babini, and made his professional debut at age twelve. He came to the United States in 1946 and made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, followed by extensive touring in the United States, Canada, and South America. After his first European tour in 1957, he has toured annually as a solo cellist throughout the world. Mr. Parisot’s recital activities have been equally international since his Town Hall debut in 1950, and recent appearances have included London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, and both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. Washington D.C. was the scene of another recent coup by Mr. Parisot when he played the difficult and rarely performed Schoenberg Cello Concerto in the Kennedy Center. In the spring of 1976, Mr. Parisot made a five-week tour of Poland, which included concerts with orchestras and recitals. He created a sensation when he introduced Donald Martino’s composition for solo cello entitled Parisonatina Al’Dodecafonia at the Tanglewood Festival. The New York Times remarked: “Those at this performance are not going to forget [Parisot’s] feat overnight,” and the Boston Globe wrote that “there is
probably no cellist that can equal Parisot’s dazzling achievement.” Harold Schonberg of the New York Times has said of him: “A very strong technician with a sweet tone and impeccable intonation, he is altogether a superior instrumentalist and musician.” Articles have appeared about him in a number of magazines including the New York Herald Tribune Magazine, Music and Artists, Musical America, Music Journal, New York Magazine, U.S. Camera, They Talk About Music, Reader’s Digest, The Strad, and
Instrumentalist, as well as in innumerable newspapers around the globe. Mr. Parisot has recorded for RCA Victor, Angel, Westminster, and Phonodisc.
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 Joseph Elworthy
Described by the Boston Globe as, “An extraordinary cellist—a consummate instrumentalist,” Joseph Elworthy has garnered critical acclaim for his interpretive insight and technical prowess. Elworthy has been a featured soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the world, performing on such stages as Alice Tully Hall, Suntory Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, and Seojong Hall. He has appeared on numerous television and radio broadcasts around the globe including CBC, Arts & Entertainment, BRAVO, PBS, Radio Europe, and NHK. His recordings can be heard on EMI, Sony, Achtype, and Bose record labels. In addition to receiving the Sylva Gelber Award of $15,000 from the Canada Council, Elworthy has been the recipient of multiple Canada Council career grants.
Joseph began his cello studies with Audrey Nodwell at the Vancouver Academy of Music and continued his training under the tutelage of Eric Wilson, with whom he studied for seven years. Elworthy spent numerous summers at the Banff Centre, where he first encountered the legendary cello pedagogue, Aldo Parisot. After high school, Joseph continued his studies at Yale University and the Juilliard School under the guidance of Mr. Parisot. Upon graduation from Yale, Mr. Elworthy was the recipient of the Aldo Parisot Prize—the highest honour issued by Yale University to a graduating cellist.
Mr. Elworthy has been a member of the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra since 2002, and is currently Head of the Cello Department at the Vancouver Academy of Music, where he also serves as Director of Chamber Music. Many of Joseph’s students have been accepted to the finest music conservatories—Eastman, Curtis, Juilliard, the New England Conservatory—and are now active professional musicians occupying positions around the globe.
Joseph plays on a rare Ferdinando Gagliano circa 1760, that once
belonged to the legendary German cellist, Hugo Becker.
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 Roman Borys
Roman Borys is one of Canada’s most active chamber musicians and a founding member of the Gryphon Trio. As a producer, Roman oversees the production and development of the Gryphon Trio’s various projects and education and outreach initiatives including Constantinople, Colour . . . for the End of Time and the Young Composers Initiative. In 2009, Borys became the Artistic Director of the Ottawa Chamber Music Society, which presents Chamberfest, one of the largest and most comprehensive chamber music festivals in the world.
A native of Toronto, Roman Borys studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University and Aldo Parisot at Yale University. Roman now teaches at the University of Toronto Faculty of Music along with Gryphon Trio pianist Jamie Parker and violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon.
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 Paul Marleyn
Anglo-Canadian cellist Paul Marleyn tours regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. As a frequent participant in summer festivals including the Prussia Cove, Busan, Festival of the Sound, Domaine Forget, Casalmaggiore, Leicester and Ottawa international festivals, he collaborates with artists such as Boris Berman, Miriam Fried, James Somerville, Paul Neubauer, Marc-André Hamelin, Steven Dann, Joshua Bell, and with members of the Tokyo, Vermeer, St. Lawrence and Hagen quartets. He has appeared as soloist with the Belgrade Philharmonic, European Chamber, Winnipeg Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Kitchener-Waterloo, Thunder Bay and Manitoba Chamber orchestras. Since 2000, Paul has been Artistic Director of the Agassiz International Chamber Music Festival in Winnipeg, and in 2006, joined the Trio Hochelaga , a group currently recording a series of discs of French music for the ATMA label. Paul Marleyn has made several compact disc recordings as on the United Records, CALA, Agassiz, Signum Classics, CBC and RCA Victor labels. From 1993 to 1997, Paul was Principal Cellist of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and has served as professor of cello at the University of Manitoba, and most recently, at the University of Ottawa.
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 Shauna Rolston
Award-winning Canadian cellist Shauna Rolston is considered by peers and fans to be one of the most compelling and unique musical voices on the stage today. Praised for her blazing technique and ability to captivate the imagination and touch the heart of each audience member, Shauna continues to astonish and delight with concerts, recordings and world premieres. Shauna is a frequent collaborator with leading contemporary composers with whom she enjoys creative partnerships in developing new works and contexts for her artistry. Upcoming projects include multiple recordings, performances with the National Ballet of Canada of “A Suite of Dances” choreographed to selected movements of Bach’s “Suites for Solo Cello,” and commissions including cello concertos by Kelly-Marie Murphy, Heather Schmidt, Douglas Schmidt and Vincent Ho, a concerto for cello and jazz orchestra by Darcy James Argue, a whistling concerto by Heather Schmidt, and groundbreaking double concertos by Heather Schmidt and Jazz sensation David Braid.
Shauna holds a BA in Art History and a Master of Music degree from Yale University where she studied with the distinguished cellist and pedagogue, Aldo Parisot. She is Professor of Cello and Head of Strings at the University of Toronto and a Visiting Artist at The Banff Centre.
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 Thomas Wiebe
Cellist Thomas Wiebe is well-known to Canadian audiences as a soloist and chamber musician. He has performed on numerous occasions as a guest artist with Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra London Canada. He has also been heard as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York, and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He has recorded for CBC and Centrediscs.
Thomas Wiebe is also cellist with the Duke Trio, along with violinist Mark Fewer and pianist Peter Longworth. Besides his performances with the Duke Trio, he plays regularly with some of the world’s leading chamber musicians.
Mr. Wiebe studied cello in his native Winnipeg with the late Julie Banton. He also studied at the Eastman School of Music with Robert Sylvester, and with Aldo Parisot at Yale and Juilliard. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from Yale.
He is Associate Professor of Violoncello at the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. He is also on the faculty of the Domaine Forget Summer Music Academy in Quebec.
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 Judith Fraser
Alberta born cellist Judith Fraser received her early musical training with Mary Shortt, Audrey Piggott and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, England. Returning to Vancouver, she became a member of the Vancouver Symphony and the CBC Radio Orchestra. A founding member and manager of the Baroque Strings of Vancouver for 10 years, Ms. Fraser was treasurer of the Vancouver Cello Club for 37 years and also delegate to the American Cello Council. She played with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and was orchestra manager for 12 years. As a participant in the Banff Summer Residency programs, Ms. Fraser worked extensively with Aldo Parisot on pedagogy, and has given workshops for the Australian String Teachers Association in Brisbane, Hobart and recently in Melbourne. Together with John Kadz from Mount Royal College in Calgary, Judith has organized eight “Cellofests” at the Banff Centre with International Mastercellists.
During the past year, Judith has given master classes at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England, Eindhoven in Holland and at the University of Ottawa. She is Editor of the Vancouver Cello Club newsletter, is a life member of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, teaches and coaches in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, coaches Adult Ensemble Classes, has taught at Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Summer Strings and at Valhalla Summer School of the Arts in the Kootenays, is a regular Festival adjudicator and is currently on the Faculty of the Vancouver Academy of Music.
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 Audrey Nodwell
Audrey Nodwell is a professional cellist and music teacher. She studied cello with Kurt Engert at the Richard-Strauss-Konservatorium in Munich and was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree by the University of British Columbia and a Master of Music degree by the University of Victoria.
Audrey was a member of the Victoria Symphony and the Vancouver Baroque Ensemble, and was a founding member of the Rossetti Trio. For over twenty years she has been a member of the Pro Nova String Quartet. The longest running professional string quartet in Vancouver, they currently present ten concerts in their annual series and provide educational concerts in schools upon request.
A former member of the faculties of the Victoria Conservatory of
Music and Capilano College, Audrey is a current faculty member of the Vancouver Academy of Music. Her students, ranging in age from pre-school to grade 12, have won many competitions including first place wins in the Canadian Music Competition finals, the Senior Strings National Finals of the Kiwanis Festival, the Seattle Young Artists Concerto Competition, and the New Westminster Cello Concerto Competition. Many of her students have been accepted into prestigious music schools after leaving high school, and have established successful careers in music.
In addition to her regular teaching and performing activities, Audrey has taught at numerous workshops, institutes, summer music camps and festivals in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba, Washington, Montana and California.
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