Recording Industry and Recording Awards

  • DWG: Dealing with Grief. (2002) Recording of her speech for the Seventh Annual Women’s Health Conference, augmented for CD.
  • Ever Yours, Oscar Wilde Letters Read by Brian Bedford, based on his August 2000 performance at the Stratford Festival.

Producer: 2000 – Present

1994 – 1999

  • Initiated campaign for Naida Cole, pianist, and coordinated evaluations of Canadian and European recording executives to secure the first-ever contract and recording by century-old DDG of this Canadian performing artist, whose recordings are now released worldwide to rave reviews.

1981

  • Recorded and produced Joe Coughlin (including jazz sidemen: Ed Bickert, Don Thompson, Marty Morell, Terry Clarke, Bernie Senensky).

Award

  • Grand Prix du Disque Best Canadian Soloist, Judy Loman, Harp, The Crown of Ariadne

1980

  • Recorded and Produced Stravinsky's Petrouschka and Chopin Ballads - Arthur Ozolins, Piano
  • Recorded and Produced Jade Eyes - Riki Turofsky, Soprano; Michael Laucke, Guitar

Award

  • Juno Award Best Classical Recording, Stravinsky‑Chopin Ballads

1979

  • Recorded and produced the premiere of Chip and His Dog, an opera by Gian Carlo Menotti, commissioned and performed by The Canadian Children's Opera Chorus.
  • Recorded and produced the premiere performance of R Murray Shafer’s The Crown of Ariadne, Judy Loman, harp.

Awards

  • Grand Prix du Disque, Best Canadian Soloist - Gisela Depkat, Cello
  • Juno Award, Best Classical Recording - The Crown of Ariadne

1978

  • Recorded and Produced Gisela Depkat, cello (Kodaly, Neikrug, Hindemith)
  • Recorded and Produced Sentient, Judy Loman, Harp

1977

  • Recorded and produced Liszt and Glazounov sonatas, Anton Kuerti, piano.
  • Produced 100 Years of Recorded Sound with CBS and The National Library of Canada.
  • Produced The Original Dumbells, the first variety show to entertain Canadian Troops full-time, during World War I. Selected from The Public Archives of Canada and remastered from 78s.

Award

  • Juno Award, Best Classical Recording - Beethoven Sonatas, Volumes I, II, III

1976

  • Re-engineered and produced from a previously unknown recital recording, Lotte Lehmann, soprano, Gwendolyn Koldofsky, piano.

1975 – 1977

  • Produced and completed entire Beethoven Sonatas and Diabelli Variations in a fourteen-record set, Anton Kuerti, piano.

1975

  • Produced Canadian Brass; raz-ma-tazz.
  • Founded and financed Aquitaine Records to accommodate classical artists who did not wish to record on a Boot Records label.
  • Recorded and produced Gisela Depkat, cello, and Raffi Armenian, piano (Schubert, Brahms). First live commercial recording of classical artists, Stratford Festival, Stratford, Canada.

1973 – 1974

  • First woman director of Artist and Repertoire of the first Canadian classical record company, Boot Records.
  • Recorded, produced, and promoted The Canadian Brass: Canadian Brass: The first LP was an immediate success, and the production was recognized as the best produced and engineered of classical records. Canadian Brass in Paris: First recording ever made in L'Eglise de St Chapelle, Paris, France.
  • Produced and promoted the first recording of Canadian, Liona Boyd, guitar. The Guitar; Liona Boyd. Immediate best seller whose production was acknowledged as equal to the highest world standards.  Outsold all other classical LPs in Canada in the year of its release.