Ethel Stark, is a Canadian

Canada

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 violinist and conductor.

Born in Montreal

Montreal

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, she studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève

Alfred De Sève

Alfred De Sève was a Canadian violinist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output includes works for violin and piano, solo piano, and orchestra; many of which were published by Arthur P. Schmidt and Charles H...

 and Alfred Whitehead

Alfred Whitehead

Alfred Ernest Whitehead was an English composer, organist, choirmaster, and music educator who was primarily active in Canada. He taught music at several Canadian institutions of higher learning during his career and held the post of organist/choirmaster at a number of prominent Canadian churches...

. From 1928 to 1934, she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...

 with Lea Luboshutz, Louis Bailly, Artur Rodziński

Artur Rodzinski

Artur Rodziński was a Polish conductor of opera and symphonic music. He is especially noted for his tenures as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic in the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:...

, Fritz Reiner

Fritz Reiner

Frederick Martin “Fritz” Reiner was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music in the twentieth century.-Biography:...

 and Carl Flesch

Carl Flesch

Carl Flesch was a violinist and teacher.Carl Flesch was born in Moson in Hungary in 1873. He began playing the violin at seven years of age. At 10, he was taken to Vienna, and began to study with Jakob Grün. At 17, he left for Paris, and joined the Paris Conservatoire...

. In 1940, she founded the Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra, which she conducted until 1960. For many years she taught on the faculty of the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.

In 1979 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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. In 2003 she was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec

National Order of Quebec

The National Order of Quebec, termed officially in French as l'Ordre national du Québec, and in English abbreviation as the Order of Quebec, is a civilian honour for merit in the Canadian province of Quebec...

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External links

• Ethel Stark at The Canadian Encyclopedia
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