Harry Adaskin

Harry Adaskin OC ( born October 6, 1901 in Riga, † April 7, 1994 in Vancouver ) was a Canadian violinist and music teacher.

The brother of Murray and John Adaskin came as a child with his parents to Toronto. He studied from 1913 to 1918 at the Toronto Conservatory of Music with Bertha Drechsler Adamson and 1918-1922 at the Canadian Academy of Music with Luigi from Kunits. He continued his education at Leon Sametini in Chicago and at Henri Czaplinski at the Hamburg Conservatory ( 1922-23 ) continued in 1930 and 1931 took private lessons with Marcel Chailley and attended classes in 1931, the interpretation of Jacques Thibaud and George Enesco in Paris.

1917-18 Adaskin played violin in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Frank Welsman. In the early 1920s he played second violin in the Academy String Quartet and the first violin in Milton Blackstone's string quartet. From 1923 to 1938 he was second violinist in the Hart House String Quartet. Supported by Vincent and Alice Massey ensemble was the first internationally recognized string quartet Canada and also appeared in the USA and Europe.

In 1923, Adaskin a duo with the pianist Frances Marr, who became his wife in 1926. The duo premiered numerous works of Canadian composers as Hector Grattons Réminiscence (1928 ), Healey Willan's Sonata No.. 1 (1930 ), Blomfield Holt's Pastorale and Finale (1936) and Suite No.. 2 (1940 ), John wine branch Sonata (1942 ), several works of Barbara Pentland, Jean Coulthard Two Sonatinas (1946) and Poem (1948 ), Robert Turner's Sonata (1956) and the Divertimento No.. 1 of his brother Murray, in which this played second violin. In addition, the duo's repertoire included a wide selection of works by American and European composers of the 20th century.

Already since 1915 Adaskin gave private violin lessons in Toronto. In addition, he taught from 1938 to 1941 at Upper Canada College and from 1941 to 1946 at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. From 1946 he taught at the University of British Columbia. Among his pupils were out of his brother Murray, among others Adolph Koldofsky, Maurice Solway and Harold Sumberg.

Since 1938, and intermittently until 1946 Adaskin moderated the program Musically Speaking at the CBC. From 1943 to 1946 he was the commentator for the Canadian transfer of the New York Philharmonic Sunday broadcasts. 1976-77 he acted as moderator of the live concert series of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Between 1977 and 1981, he worked on three documentaries under the title The Passionate Canadians as narrator. His memoirs he published in two volumes under the title A Fiddler 's World ( 1977) and A Fiddler's Choice ( 1982).

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  • The Canadian Encyclopedia: Harry Adaskin
  • Classical violinist
  • Music teacher
  • Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Canadian
  • Born 1901
  • Died in 1994
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