Cellist Joanne Grant received her Bachelor of Music and Master’s of Music degrees from the University of Alberta and San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Claude Kenneson, Bonnie Hampton and Margaret Rowell. Further training was received through the Banff Centre with master musicians, Lorand Fenevich, Thomas and Isobel Rolston, the Hungarian String Quartet and at the Aspen Music School with Claus Adam, cellist of the Julliard String Quartet. Joanne has performed with the Edmonton Symphony, the Berkeley Promenade Orchestra, the Canadian Chamber Orchestra and the Musician’s of the World Orchestra. For many years she was principal cellist of the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra and the Southern Alberta Chamber Orchestra. As well, Joanne was a founding member and cellist with the professional chamber ensemble Musaeus, with whom she recorded for the CBC and toured throughout much of western Canada and as far afield as the former Soviet Union.
Ms. Grant maintains an active independent teaching studio teaching both Suzuki (bks 1-3, 5,6) and traditional cello.