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ethel stark in 1941 16 february 2012 montreal , quebec montreal , quebec non_vocal_instrumentalist 25 august 1910 violin file : music . ethel stark banq p48s1p07025.jpg ethel stark
 ethel stark
ethel stark

ethel stark , -lrb- 25 august 1910 -- 16 february 2012 -rrb- was a canadian violinist and conductor .
born in montreal , quebec , she studied at the mcgill conservatory of music with alfred de sève and alfred whitehead .
from 1928 to 1934 , she studied at the curtis institute of music with lea luboshutz , louis bailly , artur rodziński , fritz reiner and carl flesch .
in 1940 , she founded the montreal women 's symphony orchestra , which she conducted until 1960 .
for many years she taught on the faculty of the conservatoire de musique du québec à montréal .
in 1979 she was made a member of the order of canada .
in 2003 she was made a grand officer of the national order of quebec .
she was awarded a doctor of laws , honoris causa degree from concordia university .
she died in montreal and was buried in montreal 's spanish and portuguese congregation cemetery .
david gutnick of the cbc radio one program the sunday edition produced a radio documentary about the montreal women 's symphony orchestra in april .
2012 .
you can hear the orchestra and interview segments with ethel stark and musicians pearl aronoff -lrb- rosemarin -rrb- , lyse vezina and violet grant states who was the first black woman in a canadian symphony orchestra and the first black woman symphony musician to play carnegie hall .
you also hear from musicologist maria noriega who wrote her master 's thesis -lrb- university of calgary -rrb- and is writing a phd on women in classical music in canada .
