Tag: Music

Raffi Cavoukian was born on July 8, 1948 in Cairo, Egypt. His family immigrated to Canada in 1958. He began his career as a Toronto-based singer/songwriter in 1970 and began performing for young children in 1974. He has written a number of inspirational songs for parents, educators, children’s advocates and children of all ages including Blessed…
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Bruce Pullan was born in England, and after education as a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford, came to Canada in 1974. In Canada he performed as a singer with most of the Symphony Orchestras and became a successful Choral Conductor. He was appointed Music Director of the Vancouver Bach Choir…
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 Harry Pryce was the Senior Music Director of Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS) for many years.  He also conducted and directed music for the Victoria Music Foundation productions and for many other musicals in various cities.  He was widely acclaimed throughout Canada for his outstanding work on many CBC shows – both radio and TV.…
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Began his singing/music career in Winnipeg in the early ’30’s…moved to Vancouver in 1936 and worked extensively in radio as a variety performer…appeared at Theatre Under The Stars in CAN CAN…starred with Betty Phillips in CBC Radio’s LOLLY TOO DUM…had a column in The Province newspaper in the late ’50’s “Some Folks Say”… and has…
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Polson, Arthur (Ludwig). Violinist, composer, conductor, b Vancouver 2 Mar 1934, d there 25 Feb 2003. Polson began violin lessons with his father at four and studied subsequently in Vancouver and at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, Calif, and privately in New York. He was a member 1954-62 of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra…
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