Ethel Stark
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| Ethel Stark | |
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| Born | 25 August 1916 Montreal, Quebec |
| Instruments | Violin |
Ethel Stark, CM, GOQ (born 25 August 1916) is a Canadian violinist and conductor.
Born in Montreal, she studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève and Alfred Whitehead. From 1928 to 1934, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music with Lea Luboshutz, Louis Bailly, Artur Rodziński, Fritz Reiner and Carl Flesch. In 1940, she founded the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, which she conducted until 1960. For many years she taught on the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
In 1979 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2003 she was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
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