Shauna Rolston

Cellist

One of Canada’s most celebrated musicians, Shauna Rolston has been captivating audiences with her passion for music since the age of two. She made her Town Hall debut in New York City at the age of 16, and she continues to perform regularly around the world, in recital and concerto engagements. Following the completion of her studies at Yale University with the distinguished cellist and pedagogue Aldo Parisot, where she earned a BA in History of Art and a Masters of Music, Shauna joined the faculty at the University of Toronto as a professor of cello and co-head of the string department. She has toured to Finland and Iceland with Her Excellency Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, as a member of her delegation, and performed with the China Philharmonic at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and with the Utah, Winnipeg and Toronto Symphonies. She has had work written for her by composers including Oskar Moraweta, Jean Coulthard, Violet Archer, Bruce Mather, Christos Hatzis, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Chan Ka Nin, and Heather Schmidt. Shauna is also a visiting artist at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

Shauna Rolston first performed with Peggy Baker in 2000 in Words Fail. She has since collaborated with Baker on Tedd Robinson's 2003 work The Transparent Recital, and has recorded Song of Songs by Karen Tanaka as the score to Baker's latest choreography, Krishna's Mouth.