Tafelmusik: Forging Connections with Chamber Music
Why are Toronto-based Tafelmusik’s performances and recordings of early music so electrifying?
Andrea Rush
Andrea Rush
Andrea Rush B.Mus, L.Mus. LLM. , R.M,T. , Dipl. D’etudes theoriques graduated from the Conservatoire de Que., ( premiere medaille) and McGill University, after studying ( on full scholarship ) with pianists Dorothy Morton, Irving Heller, Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppe Herman David and conductor Alexander Brott. She has guest lectured on music, computer technology and related legal issues at York University, OCAD, McGill and Stanford University. Andrea is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Music Critics Association of North America. She continues as a member of the string section of various community orchestras in Toronto.
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