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Catherine Manoukian and Susanne Ruberg-Gordon

Catherine Manoukian's professional career began at the age of twelve when she won the grand prize at the 1994 Canadian Music Competition. She was born in Toronto, began violin studies with her father, and made her first stage appearance at the age of four. From 1994 to 2000, Catherine studied with the late, world-renowned violin pedagogue Dorothy DeLay in New York.

Catherine's orchestral debut was with the Vancouver Symphony in 1994, playing Paganini's first violin concerto. In subsequent years, she has soloed with many major North American and international orchestras, including, among others, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Istanbul State Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, the Osaka Century Orchestra, and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, all received to great critical acclaim. She has collaborated with such conductors as Mario Bernardi, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Keith Lockhart, Roy Goodman, Peter Oundjian, Tomomi Nishimoto, Seikyo Kim, Eduard Topchjan, and Jonas Alber.

As a recitalist, she has appeared on major stages of such cities as New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo, and Osaka, and has appeared as a chamber musician at the Aspen, Caramoor, and Newport International Festivals.

Catherine's extra-musical education includes undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in history and philosophy. She is currently on leave from the PhD programme in philosophy at the University of Toronto. Her research has been on the nature of rationality and she's worked on giving an account of deviant belief-forming processes. (This means that she's secretly a neuroscientist.) Catherine holds a CGS doctoral research grant, awarded by the social sciences and humanities research council in Canada


Quoted by the Chronicle Herald as “A superb musician” and other critics as “accomplished, experienced….providing an evening of musical magic”, Swedish-born pianist Susanne Ruberg-Gordon’s passion for chamber music is evident.

She has collaborated with artists such as Andres Cardenes, Andras Diaz, Desmond Hoebig, Ian Swensen, Alain Trudel, Ron Leonard, Jens Lindemann, Ning Feng, Arnold Choi, and Nikki Chooi.

Studies at the Banff Centre Music and Sound program brought her to the Bow Valley where she now resides with her family. Her primary teachers include Jose Ribera and Greta Eriksson from the Edsberg Institute of Music in Stockholm where she graduated with a Diploma in Chamber music, but she has also had the privilege to learn from Gilbert Kalish, Marc Durand and David Moroz.

Susanne has been on faculty at the Mount Royal University Conservatory since 1991 where she is the coordinator of Collaborative Pianists and teaches chamber music. She has also been a Collaborative Artist for the acclaimed Morningside Music Bridge program in Canada, China and Poland since 2001. Susanne also teaches and performs at the Valhalla Summer School of Music in Silverton, B.C

Pricing: Tickets: $20.00 Advance, $18.00 Members, $22.00 Door, $5.00 Youth

209 St George Street
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

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