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About Kerry DuWors
- Kerry DuWors (born September 26, 1980) is a Canadian violinist, chamber musician and educator.
- Praised as a “dynamic performer” (Scott St.
- John) with “fearless competence” (Winnipeg Free Press), Kerry DuWors is the first prize winner of the 26th E-Gré National Music Competition and has been among the winners of the Canada Council’s Musical Instrument Bank Competition in 2009, 2006 and 2003.
- DuWors has collaborated with many acclaimed soloists and ensembles including James Ehnes, Yo-Yo Ma, Isabel Bayrakdarian, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Martin Fröst, Marc-André Hamelin, Andrew Dawes, Scott St.
- John, St.
- Lawrence and Penderecki Quartets, and the Gryphon Trio.
- Recently, DuWors has performed as a soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (2009), Red Deer Symphony (2010), Manitoba Chamber Orchestra (2010) and Brandon Chamber Players (2011).
- In 2010–2011 she joined New York based The Knights for performances with Yo-Yo Ma and a tour of Germany with Jan Vogler.
- She also toured the USA with the Galileo Piano Trio and held a residency at the Banff Center for the Arts while collaborating with pianist Futaba Niekawa.
- DuWors began her musical training while growing up in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- She furthered her studies at University of Victoria with Ann Elliot-Goldschmid (B.
- Mus.) of the Lafayette String Quartet; and University of Toronto under Lorand Fenyves (M.
- Mus.).
- While at University at Toronto she was awarded the Eaton Graduate Scholarship, the Yo-Yo Ma Fellowship for Strings and the Felix Galimir Award for Chamber Music Excellence.
- DuWors has been Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Brandon University since 2003.
- In 2010 she began a Doctorate in Musical Arts at Eastman School of Music as a student of Charles Castleman.
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