Recording Industry and Recording Awards

Producer   2000 to present

• 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.

1994 to 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 world wide 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 premiere of Chip and His Dog, opera by Gian Carlo Menotti
  Commissioned and performed by The Canadian Children's Opera Chorus.
• Recorded and produced 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, first variety show to entertain Canadian Troops full-time, World War I.  Selected from The Public Archives of Canada and re-mastered from 78s.

Award

Juno Award, Best Classical Recording, Beethoven Sonatas, volumes I, II, III

1976

• Re-engineered and produced, from 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

• 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.  First LP an immediate success and production recognized as 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 first recording of Canadian, Liona Boyd, guitar. 

The Guitar; Liona Boyd.  Immediate best seller whose production was acknowledged equal to highest world standards.  Outsold all other classical LPs in Canada in the year of its release.