Nancy Dahn
{{Short description|Canadian musician}}
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M.Mus., Juilliard School
D.M.A., Cleveland Institute of Music
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Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Nancy Dahn {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSC}} is a Canadian violinist. Alongside her husband, she co-founded the Tuckamore Festival in 2001 and is a University Research Professor of Violin and Viola at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Education
Dahn studied at the New England Conservatory, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she earned her doctorate in violin performance.{{cite web |title=MUSIC FROM THE NEW WORLD |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/155492816.pdf |website=core.ac.uk |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |page=2 |date=1997}}
Career
Dahn taught violin and chamber music at the Cleveland Institute of Music. In 1995, she joined the faculty of Music at the Memorial University of Newfoundland.{{cite web |title=President's Award for Outstanding Research |url=http://www.mun.ca/2004report/research/presidents_award.php?print=yes& |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019}} She was the University's first professor in strings.{{cite web |title=Friends and Alumni Newsletter 2007–2008 |url=http://www.mun.ca/music/dev/newsletter/summer07.pdf |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |page=5}} While there, she collaborated with her husband Timothy Steeves to create a musical duo named Duo Concertante. The name, which was inspired from Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata, was also the first piece the duo played in 1997.{{cite web |title=DUO CONCERTANTE |url=http://duoconcertante.com/bio/ |website=duoconcertante.com |date=4 December 2012 |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403121439/http://duoconcertante.com/bio/ |archivedate=April 3, 2019}}
By 2001, Dahn and her pianist husband Steeves launched the Tuckamore Festival together,{{cite news |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Ashley |title=Tuckamore at 10 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-telegram-st-johns/20100731/283996123538648 |accessdate=November 25, 2019 |publisher=The Telegram |date=July 31, 2010}} which later earned the support of the Canadian government.{{cite web |title=Government of Canada Supports Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival in St. John's |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2008/02/government-canada-supports-tuckamore-chamber-music-festival-st-john-s.html |website=canada.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=February 22, 2008}} That year, the duo received the 2001 Touring Performers Award from Contact East.{{cite web |title=outabout |url=http://www.mun.ca/gazette/2001-2002/oct18/outabout.html |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=October 18, 2001}}
In 2010, Duo Concertante received the Artist of the Year Award from the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council.{{cite web |title=Classical couple tops N.L. Arts Council awards |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/classical-couple-tops-n-l-arts-council-awards-1.971312 |website=cbc.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=May 2, 2010}} The next year, the duo commissioned and wrote R. Murray Schafer’s Duo for Violin and Piano, which won Best Classical Composition at the 2011 Juno Awards.{{cite web |title=Music professors record Juno-winning classical composition |url=http://www.mun.ca/gazette/issues/vol43no12/juno.php |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=April 7, 2011}}
In 2016, Dahn and her husband were elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Jeff |title=Big Thrill |url=https://gazette.mun.ca/research/big-thrill/ |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=September 14, 2016}} They were also promoted to University Research Professor, which the Memorial University of Newfoundland ranked above Full Professor.{{cite web |title=Recognizing excellence |url=https://gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-community/recognizing-excellence/ |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=December 16, 2016}} The next year, Duo Concertante received the 2017 East Coast Music Award (ECMA) for Classical Recording of the Year.{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Marcia |title='Special win' |url=https://gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-community/special-win/ |website=mun.ca |accessdate=November 26, 2019 |date=May 15, 2017}}
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Category:Canadian classical violinists
Category:Canadian women classical violinists
Category:21st-century Canadian violinists and fiddlers
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Category:Canadian women academics
Category:Juilliard School alumni
Category:New England Conservatory alumni
Category:Cleveland Institute of Music alumni
Category:Cleveland Institute of Music faculty
Category:Academic staff of the Memorial University of Newfoundland