Jasper Wood (born April 29, 1974) is a Canadian concert violinist. Jasper Wood was born into a musical family of six brothers and sisters: his brothers are Craig and Derek, his sisters, Anya, Heather and Lisette. He gave his first public performance at the age of five. He holds a master of music degree from the

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where he studied with

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and Linda Cerone. An acclaimed competition winner, Jasper Wood has won numerous prizes and awards in the United States, Canada, and Europe. In 1996 Jasper Wood embarked on his international solo career. Since then he has played with numerous orchestras including

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, and the

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symphonies. Wood has been awarded both the Sylva Gelber Award and the Virginia-Parker Prize,The Virginia-Parker Prize Cumulative list of Winners
two of the most distinguished prizes awarded by the

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. He has recorded numerous CDs for Endeavour Classics, Analekta, Disques Pelleas, and Naxos labels. His most recent CD was released in May 2006 with pianist David Riley (Endeavour Classics). This recording contains the violin/piano works of

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, and Contrasts for violin, piano and clarinet with the principal clarinetist of the

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. His debut recording of the complete Eckhardt-Gramatté solo violin caprices was released on the Analekta label in 1999. In 2004 Jasper Wood was appointed an Assistant Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at the

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. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009 and Professor in 2014. Wood has appeared in music videos on Bravo! television and on

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in the United States, and

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/ SRC Radio in Canada. In February 2007 he was featured on a one-hour documentary 'The Maritime Violin' for Mozus Productions and CBC TV.

Discography

* 1999 Eckhardt-Gramatte '13 Canadian Caprices' (Analekta) * 2001 Saint-Saëns 'Music for Violin and Piano' (Disques Pelleas) * 2003

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'Works for Violin and Piano' (Endeavour Classics) * 2004 MacDonald 'Music of Andrew MacDonald' (Centrediscs) * 2005

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'Works for Violin & Piano' (Endeavour Classics) * 2006 Bartók 'Contrasts' (Endeavour Classics) * 2007 Berio 'Sequenzas' (

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) * 2012 Triple Forte 'Piano Trios of Ravel, Ives and Shostakovich' ( ATMA) * 2012 Chartreuse 'Sonatas of Mozart, Debussy and Strauss' ( Max Frank Music) * 2013 Stradivarius Christmas 'Musical Settings of popular Christmas Songs' ( Max Frank Music) * 2015 Mathew Fuerst 'Complete Violin/Piano works of Mathew Fuerst' (

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) * 2015 Piano Trios of Dvorak 'Dvorak Piano Trios No. 3 & No. 4' ( ATMA)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Jasper 1974 births Living people Canadian male classical violinists Canadian expatriates in the United States Canadian people of British descent Cleveland Institute of Music alumni Musicians from Moncton Academic staff of the University of British Columbia 21st-century Canadian classical violinists 21st-century Canadian male musicians 20th-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers Canadian male violinists and fiddlers