Nancy Dahn 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

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Education

Dahn studied at the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a Private college, private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. The conservatory is located on Huntington Avenue along Avenue of the Arts (Boston), the Avenue of the Arts near Boston Symphony Ha ...

, the

Juilliard School The Juilliard School ( ) is a Private university, private performing arts music school, conservatory in New York City. Founded by Frank Damrosch as the Institute of Musical Art in 1905, the school later added dance and drama programs and became ...

, and the

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, where she earned her doctorate in violin performance.

Career

Dahn taught violin and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1995, she joined the faculty of Music at the

. She was the University's first professor in strings. 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. By 2001, Dahn and her pianist husband Steeves launched the Tuckamore Festival together, which later earned the support of the Canadian government. That year, the duo received the 2001 Touring Performers Award from Contact East. In 2010, Duo Concertante received the Artist of the Year Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. 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

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s. In 2016, Dahn and her husband were elected Fellows of the

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. They were also promoted to University Research Professor, which the Memorial University of Newfoundland ranked above

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. The next year, Duo Concertante received the 2017 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) for Classical Recording of the Year.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dahn, Nancy Living people Canadian classical violinists Canadian women classical violinists 21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Canadian women academics Juilliard School alumni New England Conservatory alumni Cleveland Institute of Music alumni Cleveland Institute of Music faculty Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland Canadian women violinists and fiddlers 1968 births