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Founded in 2004 by violinist Brenna Hardy-Kavanagh and cellist Sonya Matoussova, They have studied at many highly acclaimed summer institutions, including Domaine Forget Summer Music Academy (St. Irenée, Québec), Orford Arts Centre (Magog, Québec), Morningside Music Bridge (Calgary, Alberta), Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Alberta), Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists’ Program (Ottawa, Ontario), Encore School for Strings (Cleveland, Ohio), Schleswig-Holstein Orchestral Academy (Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), Schlern International Music Festival (Voels, Italy), ScotiaFest (Halifax, Nova Scotia), Tiberius International Chamber Music Festival (Targu Mures, Romania), Orchestre Bavière-Québec (Montréal, Québec & Munich, Germany), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (Aldeburgh, UK), Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. |
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Brenna was born in Ottawa. She holds a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from the Université de Montréal, where she studied with Vladimir Landsman. Brenna plays on a 2002 violin by luthier Guy Harrison. She resides in Montréal.
Sonya was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and grew up in Ottawa. She completed her undergraduate degree in cello performance, under the direction of Yuli Turovsky, at Université de Montréal. Sonya currently resides in Montréal.