Nancy Dahn

Nancy Dahn FRSC is a Canadian violinist. Alongside her husband, she co-founded the Tuckamore Festival in 2001 and is a University Research Professor of Violin and Viola at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Nancy Dahn
Spouse(s)Timothy Steeves
Children2
Academic background
EducationB.Mus., New England Conservatory of Music
M.Mus., Juilliard School
D.M.A., Cleveland Institute of Music
Doctoral advisorDonald Weilerstein
Academic work
InstitutionsCleveland Institute of Music
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Websiteduoconcertante.com

Education

Dahn studied at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she earned her doctorate in violin performance.[1]

Career

Dahn taught violin and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music.[1] In 1995, she joined the faculty of Music at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.[2] She was the University's first professor in strings.[3] While there, she collaborated with her husband Timothy Steeves to create a musical duo named Duo Concertante. The name, which was inspired from Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, was also the first piece the duo played in 1997.[4]

By 2001, Dahn and her pianist husband Steeves launched the Tuckamore Festival together,[5] which later earned the support of the Canadian government.[6] That year, the duo received the 2001 Touring Performers Award from Contact East.[7]

In 2010, Duo Concertante received the Artist of the Year Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.[8] The next year, the duo commissioned and wrote R. Murray Schafer’s Duo for Violin and Piano, which won Best Classical Composition at the 2011 Juno Awards.[9]

In 2016, Dahn and her husband were elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.[10] They were also promoted to University Research Professor, which the Memorial University of Newfoundland ranked above Full Professor.[11] The next year, Duo Concertante received the 2017 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) for Classical Recording of the Year.[12]

References
  1. "MUSIC FROM THE NEW WORLD" (PDF). core.ac.uk. 1997. p. 2. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  2. "President's Award for Outstanding Research". mun.ca. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  3. "Friends and Alumni Newsletter 2007-2008" (PDF). mun.ca. p. 5. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  4. "DUO CONCERTANTE". duoconcertante.com. Archived from the original on April 3, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  5. Fitzpatrick, Ashley (July 31, 2010). "Tuckamore at 10". The Telegram. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
  6. "Government of Canada Supports Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival in St. John's". canada.ca. February 22, 2008. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  7. "outabout". mun.ca. October 18, 2001. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  8. "Classical couple tops N.L. Arts Council awards". cbc.ca. May 2, 2010. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  9. "Music professors record Juno-winning classical composition". mun.ca. April 7, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  10. Green, Jeff (September 14, 2016). "Big Thrill". mun.ca. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  11. "Recognizing excellence". mun.ca. December 16, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  12. Porter, Marcia (May 15, 2017). "'Special win'". mun.ca. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
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