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Amanda Goodburn
Violin
South African–born violinist Amanda Goodburn is a founding member of the Tokai String Quartet and a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
She has collaborated as a chamber musician with the Art of Time Ensemble, ArrayMusic, and the ARC Ensemble; and has performed at the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Festival, and the Ahuntsic en Fugue and Concerts aux Îles du Bic festivals in Québec. She has also performed as soloist with the Toronto Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic, and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic orchestras.
Amanda completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Stellenbosch, and holds a master’s degree from the University of Toronto and diplomas from the Royal Northern College of Music in England, where she was an Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) scholar.
Violinist Csaba Koczo is currently Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, and holds a position with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra.
Mr. Koczó also enjoys a prolific career as a chamber musician and soloist both in Canada and abroad. As a founding member of the Banff Competition prizewinning and Dora award nominated Tokai String Quartet, Mr. Koczó has toured across Canada and the US and some of his performances have been broadcast on the CBC and the Hungarian National Radio. He has performed at Ottawa Chamberfest, and the Toronto Summer Music Festival where he has worked with Ian Swensen and the Leipzig String Quartet. Mr. Koczó has taught at the Universities of Stanford, Toronto, Kingston, Halifax and Acadia in Wolfville NS, and spent many summers as a faculty member of Music at Port Milford in Picton, ON. He also often appears on the Chatter Chamber Music series in New Mexico and plays with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He is a member of the TakeFive Ensemble, and was one of the founding members of the Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra.
Mr. Koczo has shared the stage with such illustrious musicians as Mayumi Seiler, Steven Isserlis, Scott St.John, Douglas McNabney, Yehonatan Berick and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. As a soloist, he has been featured with the Sandor Frigyes Chamber Orchestra and has also had the opportunity to perform the Beethoven Violin concerto and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Born in Hungary, Mr. Koczó began his studies in Yugoslavia and then continued in Hungary at the Richter Conservatory in Gyor and the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. After attaining his bachelor’s degree with distinction from the College of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he continued his studies in Toronto with Lorand Fenyves and Erika Raum at the Glenn Gould School and the University of Toronto, where he was the recipient of the H. Carter scholarship.
Csaba Koczo
Violin
Carolyn Blackwell
Viola
Originally from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Carolyn Blackwell has shared the stage with esteemed artists such as Geoff Nuttall, Daniel Phillips and Mayumi Seiler.
Carolyn is a member of the Canadian Opera Company, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra and regularly performs with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the National Ballet of Canada. She has also performed with The English National Opera. As a busy freelancer in Toronto, she is guest violist with the Artists of The Royal Conservatory and the Art of Time Ensemble. She completed her studies with Steven Dann and Nick Pulos.
Carolyn is violist of the Tokai String Quartet as well as an avid chamber musician who performs annually at Cervo Chamber Music Festival (Italy), Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove (UK) and is a member of the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra (Switzerland). She can be heard on CBC and BBC Radio.
Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, the Associate Principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a diverse career as a recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician, and teacher.
An accomplished chamber musician, Emmanuelle is a member of the Tokai String Quartet. She is regularly invited to perform in festivals and series across Canada. She has participated in a Debut Atlantic tour in the Maritimes; played at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Ahuntsic en Fugue, and Concerts aux Iles-du-Bic in Quebec; Sound at Parry Sound, Toronto Summer Music, and Stratford Music Festival in Ontario; and Music-by-the-Sea and the Pender Harbour Music Festival in British Columbia.
She has also performed as guest principal cellist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Les Violons du Roy in Quebec City.
As a teacher, Emmanuelle has collaborated with students at the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program in Vermont, Music at Port Milford, and at the Toronto Summer Music Festival.
Emmanuelle is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, the Juilliard School and Rice University. Her teachers have included Denis Brott, Joel Krosnick, Bonnie Hampton, and Norman Fischer. She is a prizewinner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Prix d’Europe Competition, and Radio-Canada’s Young Artist Competition. She is a twice-awarded laureate of the Canada Council Bank of Instruments competition.
She is also an alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, UCLA Piatigorsky Seminar for cellists, and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England.
Emmanuelle was born in rural Quebec, grew up in Montreal, and currently lives in Toronto, where she listens to French radio every day often while eating cheese and baguette.
Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron
Cello
