Frances Adaskin

Frances Marr Adaskin O.C. ( Born August 23, 1900 in Ridgetown, Ontario, † March 8, 2001 in Vancouver ) was a Canadian pianist.

As the daughter of Del and Eunice Marr born, she learned to play the piano in childhood. She was in the Conservatory of Music in Toronto, a student Paul Wells, and in the summer of 1930 and 1931, a student of Céline Chailley - Richez in Paris. In 1926 she married the violinist Harry Adaskin, with whom she also formed a lifelong artistic collaboration. Until 1938, she accompanied the band of her husband, the Hart House String Quartet, on their performances in America and Europe. Thereafter, both formed a duo and took from 1944 to 1954 among others common toured Canada.

In 1976 Adaskin was admitted to the Order of Canada. In 1991, she ended her musical career with her husband and spent the evening of life in Vancouver, where both lived since 1946. She died in 2001 at the age of 100 years.