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Siamsa Biography |
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Sarah Burnell |
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| Expertise: Fiddle, Voice |
| Now Teaching: Singing |
| Email: manager@sarahfiddle.ca |
| Web Site: http://sarahfiddle.ca/ |
| _________________________________________________________________________ Sarah hails from Ottawa, but her musical roots may be found in Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland, and Québec. Her energetic fiddling reflects the wide variety of coaches with whom she has studied, including Alasdair Fraser, Jerry Holland, Shannon McDade-Johnson, April Verch, David Greenberg, Sandy MacIntyre, Stan Chapman, Carl MacKenzie, and Glen Graham. In July, 2006, Sarah toured Scotland, and she enjoyed her first taste of Shetland, Norwegian, and Welsh fiddling! Sarah is also an accomplished singer, and she particularly enjoys singing in top-level choirs. She is a graduate of the Cantiamo Girls’ Choir (Ottawa), the Canterbury High School Concert Choir, and has twice been selected to be part of the Ontario Youth Choir. Her beautiful mezzo-soprano voice is perfectly suited to Celtic songs. Sarah also plays the bodhran, which she has studied with Lisa Gallant (Nova Scotia) and Eoin Coughlan (Ireland). Sarah is a premier-level highland dancer, and has enjoyed performing with the Loch Murray Dancers (Ottawa) and the RCMP Pipes and Drums Dance Ensemble (Ottawa). Sarah was born in Ottawa, where she studied classical violin and celtic fiddle, first with Nancy Eadie, and later with Sylvie Rocheleau. In June, 2006, she graduated from the prestigious Canterbury High School Fine Arts programme (strings). She is currently studying Violin and Music Education concurrently at McGill University, Montreal. |
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