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Volume 12, Issue 20, Week of May 18, 2015
Saskatoonʼs REAL Community Newspaper
Mother knows best Music ticket for DuWors to travel the world
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iolinist Kerry DuWors has reached some rather amazing musical milestones. She was twice a member of Canada’s National Youth Orchestra, chosen as the concertmaster for a tour of Europe when she was 17 and the second-youngest member in the 70-piece orchestra. Then, as a member of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, she was able to play at Carnegie Hall. Just four years ago, she played on the same stage as Yo-Yo Ma, arguably the world’s finest cello player, at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, N.Y. In January 2015, she toured Japan with pianist Futaba Niekawa, with whom she has People formed a concert pairing called duo526. As someone who has appeared in Europe at last half a dozen times, she laughs that her career has turned out somewhat like her mother, Maureen, of Saskatoon, predicted. “My mother gave me every chance to enjoy activities,” said DuWors, “but she told me that music would allow me to travel around the world. It has.” There’s another thrill just around the corner for DuWors. She will be performing Affairs of the Heart, a 1997 violin concerto written by Marjan Mozetich, a Canadian composer, with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra on May 23 at TCU Place. When the concerto was first introduced as a CBC Vancouver Orchestra CD release, the
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network’s telephone switchboards lit up like never before. “It is a great experience to be a soloist with the Saskatoon Symphony. It is a homecoming, and what an opportunity to play a concerto which has never been featured in Saskatchewan before,” said DuWors, 34, who is now an associate professor of violin and chamber music at Brandon University. “In the early planning stages with Mark Turner, the symphony general manager, we were looking at a different option. I loved Affairs of the Heart, which is about 23 minutes long, and demanding because I am continuously playing. I think I was one of the few people who knew about the piece. Mark jumped at the idea, because it gave the orchestra a chance to celebrate a great Canadian composition.” Her memories of growing up in Saskatoon are fond. “Saskatoon is where I was Violinist Kerry DuWors will perform with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra introduced to the violin, when I on May 23 (Photo Supplied) was about two and a half years old. I joined the Saskatoon Suzuki program. I was playing songs and trying Maureen Rever, a highly ranked sprinter ican Games, where she earned a bronze to learn when Mary Wedgwood told my in Canada. She, Eleanor Haslam and medal in the women’s relay and was fourth mother we should join the Suzuki proMargaret George, all from Saskatchewan, in the long jump and fifth in the 60-metre gram, where a child and a parent studied qualified for the Canadian team at the 1956 sprint. Rever went to Cambridge Univertogether. I left my mother behind in the Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia. sity in 1962, and came back to Saskatoon musical dust. I was a competitor, just like In 1958, she raced for Canada at the Brit- to coach, officiate and marry Richard Dumy mother was in sports.” ish Empire and Commonwealth Games in Wors, a founding father of indoor track. Sports fans knew her mother as Wales. In 1959, she went to the Pan-Amer(Continued on page 4)