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Nancy Dahn FRSC is a Canadian violinist. Alongside her husband, she co-founded the Tuckamore Festival in 2001 and is a University Research Professor of Violin and Viola at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Nancy Dahn | |
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| Born | February 22, 1968 |
| Spouse | Timothy Steeves |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.Mus., New England Conservatory of Music M.Mus., Juilliard School D.M.A., Cleveland Institute of Music |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Weilerstein |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Cleveland Institute of Music Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Website | duoconcertante |
Dahn studied at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she earned her doctorate in violin performance.[1]
Dahn taught violin and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music.[1] In 1995, she joined the faculty of Music at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.[2] She was the University's first professor in strings.[3] While there, she collaborated with her husband Timothy Steeves to create a musical duo named Duo Concertante. The name, which was inspired from Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, was also the first piece the duo played in 1997.[4]
By 2001, Dahn and her pianist husband Steeves launched the Tuckamore Festival together,[5] which later earned the support of the Canadian government.[6] That year, the duo received the 2001 Touring Performers Award from Contact East.[7]
In 2010, Duo Concertante received the Artist of the Year Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.[8] The next year, the duo commissioned and wrote R. Murray Schafer’s Duo for Violin and Piano, which won Best Classical Composition at the 2011 Juno Awards.[9]
In 2016, Dahn and her husband were elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.[10] They were also promoted to University Research Professor, which the Memorial University of Newfoundland ranked above Full Professor.[11] The next year, Duo Concertante received the 2017 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) for Classical Recording of the Year.[12]
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