Classical Music

I started studying violin and viola at the Vancouver Academy of Music at the age of 7 and continued to the end of high-school. I then spent one summer touring and performing with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, under Kazuyoshi Akiyama. During my undergraduate years I served as principal viola in both the Queen's Symphony Orchestra and the Queen's String Orchestra. During this same period I played professionally with the Kingston Symphony. During this time we recorded a CD of Disney music which was #1 on the Billboard charts (off-priced classical category. heh). After finishing my undergraduate degree I effectively retired from the world of serious classical music.

Teachers that I am proud to have studied under include Mark Koenig, Gerald Stanick, of the Fine Arts Quartet, and Kenneth Perkins, of the Orford String Quartet.

The Saw Rex Project

On a more recreational note, I've spent a while messing around with popular music of a rock bent. Many years ago some friends and I formed "The Spanish Inquisition," now on hiatus. My solo efforts, some of them closely tied to SI stuff, are labelled as "The Saw Rex Project."

• Butterfly - Cover of a Weezer song from the album "Pinkerton"
• Funny Music Man
• Untitled
• Kletva cover of a famous Bulgarian song by Sturzite
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Saxophone Colossus A
• Saxophone Colossus B
• Saxophone Colossus C
• Saxophone Colossus D

The Spanish Inquisition

• Tree Huggers
• GST
• TV

My Musical Timeline (some dates approximate)

• Vancouver Academy of Music, 1983 - 1994
• National Youth Orchestra of Canada, 1994
• Queen's Symphony Orchestra, 1994-1995
• Queen's String Orchestra, 1994-1997
• Kingston Symphony, 1994-1998

Orchestral Repertoire (that which I remember)

• Bach St. Matthew Passion
• Bach Concerto for 2 Violins
• Bartok The Miraculous Mandarin
• Beethoven Symphony #1, #2, #3, #5
• Dainty Suite for Strings
• Franck Symphony in D minor
• Mahler Symphony #1, #5
• Mendelssohn Symphony #4
• Mercure Kaleidoscope
• Mozart Symphony #39
• Prokofiev Symphony #5
• Respighi Pines of Rome
• Respighi Fountains of Rome
• Saint-Saens Cello Converto #1
• Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
• Sibelius Finlandia
• Strauss Death and Transfiguration
• Strauss Till Eulenspiegel
• Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Stravinsky The Firebird
• Stravinsky Rite of Spring
• Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #3
• Tchaikovsky Symphony #4, #5, #6
• Vivaldi The Four Seasons
• Vivaldi Concerto for Bassoon