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Name
  
Eli Kassner


Role
  
Guitarist

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Eli Kassner, (born 27 May 1924 Vienna, Austria) is a Canadian classical guitar teacher and musician.

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Eli Kassner studied guitar in Vienna and Israel before moving to Canada in 1951. He also studied in the United States, Israel, and in Spain, under the great virtuoso classical guitarist, Andrés Segovia. He performed until 1967.

In 1956, he founded the Guitar Society of Toronto. He was its president from 1960 to 1966 and artistic director from 1970 to 2008. In 1967, he established the Eli Kassner Guitar Academy.

He established the guitar program at the University of Toronto and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (RCMT) in 1959 and started the University of Toronto Guitar Ensemble in 1978.

In the 1970s, Kassner became interested in microphotography, and worked as a composer and performer for the CBC Television series The Lively Arts and The Nature of Things.

Eli Kassner was awarded an honorary doctorate from Carleton University and was also inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America's Hall of Fame. In 2009, the Guitar Society of Toronto, honored Eli Kassner with a lifetime 'Artistic Director Emeritus' appointment.

In 2016, he was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada.

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Notable students

  • Liona Boyd
  • Annabelle Chvostek
  • Jesse Cook
  • Atom Egoyan
  • Norbert Kraft
  • Gordon O'Brien
  • Timothy Phelan
  • Pavlo Simtikidis
  • References

    Eli Kassner Wikipedia


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