Canadian violinist and worldwide chamber musician William Fedkenheuer has been to guide Toronto Summer time Music because the group’s subsequent Creative Director. He’ll take over from present AD Jonathan Crow, whose tenure ends with the closing of this yr’s competition, working from July 10 to August 2, 2025.
BC born violinist Jonathan Crow has been the Concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2011. Previous to his appointment in Toronto, he joined the Montréal Symphony Orchestra as Affiliate Principal Second Violin proper after graduating from McGill College with a Bachelor’s diploma in Music in Honours Efficiency. He subsequently turned the MSO’s Concertmaster from 2002 to 2006 — the youngest particular person to carry the place in any main North American orchestra on the time.
On his appointment, Crow turned TSM’s third Creative Director, after founding AD Agnes Grossmann (2006 to 2010), and Douglas McNabney (2010 to 2016).
William Fedkenheuer, violin
Classical violinist, fiddler, instructor, and marketing consultant William (Will) Fedkenheuer was raised in Calgary, Alberta.
Whereas it wasn’t a musical household, his sister’s curiosity within the violin as a toddler sparked his personal, and his musical story started. After taking personal classes, on the age of six he auditioned for the Mount Royal Conservatory in Calgary, and was accepted.
His instructor there launched him not solely to classical approach, but additionally nation and western fiddling, collectively together with her husband, Dr. Norman Burgess, founding father of The Calgary Fiddlers. Fedkenheuer took to it instantly, and he turned the youngest member of The Calgary Fiddlers. He toured North America and internationally with the favored ensemble, and started to enter fiddle competitions, taking dwelling high prize within the 1989 Canadian Nationwide Championship Novelty class at 12.
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He was additionally studying the Conservatory classical program, and located his musical dwelling. Will made his his solo debut with the Calgary Philharmonic in 1994 on the age of 17.
Will went on to check violin efficiency on the Shepherd College of Music at Rice College, the place he earned a Bachelor’s diploma, adopted by a Grasp’s Diploma in Bloomington, Indiana. He joined the Borromeo Quartet throughout his second yr, and toured the world with the ensemble together with finishing his research. He taught full time at New England Conservatory throughout that very same interval.
After a transfer to the West Coast, he turned the primary violinist of the Fry Avenue Quartet. The Quartet would go on to develop and ran the string program at Utah State College.
In 2011, he made his subsequent transfer, this time on the invitation of the Miró Quartet, and have become their second violin chair. In the present day, along with his solo performing profession, and as a member of the Miró Quartet, he’s a professor on the Butler College of Music on the College of Texas.
His performing calendar as each as soloist and chamber musician has taken him everywhere in the world’s most famous phases, together with Carnegie Corridor, Esterhazy Citadel, Suntory Corridor, and the Taipei Nationwide College of the Arts, in addition to media appearances on retailers similar to NPR, PBS, NHK, and the Discovery Channel.
A twin citizen of Canada and america, Will is trying ahead to coming again to his Canadian roots.
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