Shauna Rolston

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Born in 1967 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Rolston was the daughter of two classical musicians. Her father, Thomas Rolston, a violinist, set up Canada's first Suzuki music instruction program. Her mother was a pianist. Both taught music at the University of Alberta. They gave Shauna a one-eighth-size cello for her second birthday. Before long it was clear that she had the makings of a serious musician. She was enrolled for lessons with Claude Kenneson, who later wrote a book about musical child prodigies. At age five, Rolston gave a concert in London, England. She attended the Geneva Conservatory in Switzerland at age fourteen. She studied with Pierre Fournier, and later at the Britten-Pears School in Aldeburgh (England) where she also studied with William Pleeth. At sixteen, she played at New York's Town Hall, with her mother at the piano. Following her formative studies at the Banff Centre and abroad, Rolston earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University, where she majored in art history. She then earned a master's degree in music at Yale, studying with cellist Aldo Parisot and serving as his teaching assistant. During that time she also served as artistic director of music at the Yale Club in New York City. The recording that really put Rolston on the map was a 1995 CBC release on which she performed a technically difficult cello concerto by British composer Sir Edward Elgar, backed by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Classic CD magazine compared Rolston to one of

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Faure - Franck

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Elgar / Saint-Saens: Cello Concertos

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Strauss, R. / Debussy / Barber: Cello Sonatas

Icicles of Fire

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Bliss: Cello Concerto / Morawetz: Memorial To Martin Luther King / Bruch: Kol Nidrei

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ROLSTON, Shauna: Cello - This is the colour of my Dreams

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Dreamscape

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Elgar and Saint-Saëns: Cello Concertos

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This is the colour of my Dreams

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Dreamscapes

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Cello Sonatas : Faure, Franck

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Cello Sonatas - Shauna Rolston

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