The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) are proud to announce the appointment of award-winning Canadian Violin Soloist and Educator, Alexandre Da Costa, to the position of Associate Professor, Classical Performance. Alex will commence his tenure at WAAPA in January 2015 but will be visiting Perth to perform a showcase concert in the Music Auditorium on Saturday 16 August and to assist with WAAPAs student recruitment activities for its 2015 intake into the Classical Music program. Winner of the 2012 Juno Award, Alexandre Da Costa was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Alex has lived and breathed music his entire life. At the age of nine, he performed his first concerts with stunning virtuosity on both violin and piano, which brought him recognition as a musical prodigy. As a recording artist, he has more than 20 CDs on, variously, Warner Classics, JVC/Victor, ATMA, XXI-21 Records and Octave/Universal. In 2012 he won the JUNO award for Classical Album of the Year for his recording of the concertos by American composer Michael Daugherty, with the Montreal Symphony under Pedro Halffter for Warner Classics. He now records for Warner Classics International and Acacia Classics/Universal Music Group. In addition to his international concert schedule, Alexandre Da Costa has held the position of Professor of Violin at the Gatineau Music Conservatory (Ottawa, Canada) and regularly gives masterclasses at various universities and conservatories around the world. He was also named Musical Development Director for Canimex, a company gathering an impressive collection of fine instruments for the benefit of talented artists, as well as Artistic Director of the Laurentians Classical Festival of Canada. Alexandre Da Costa now plays a Guarneri del Gesù of 1730 and a Sartory bow, loaned by Canimex. youtube/watch?v=D4uB7g9DzRo
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 07:23:42 +0000
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