About

Elizabeth Morris, viola
B.Mus(perf), originally from Edmonton, began studying the viola at age 12 in the Edmonton Public School System, continuing at University of Alberta, University of Western Ontario, the String Quartet Institute in Kingston, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. She is currently principal violist with Orchestra Toronto, Huronia Symphony (Barrie), the Peterborough Symphony as well as playing in the Tost String Quartet. As a freelance musician, she has played with many ensembles including the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Talisker Players, Canadian Opera Company, the Royal Winnipeg and National Ballets, Stratford and Shaw Festivals and was principal violist for Livent's productions of ShowBoat, Sunset Boulevard, and Ragtime. She is also active in the visual arts, creating watercolour and pencil crayon miniatures and original computer animations. An avid bread baker, she writes about it as well as humanitarian and environmental concerns at "blog from OUR kitchen".

Music

Loving all forms of "good music", whether it's folk, jazz, country, rock, Broadway or classical, Elizabeth primarily plays classical music. Her greatest passion is chamber music... The quartet plays Bach, Beethoven, Corelli, Elgar, Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Shostakovich....

The Tost String Quartet:

Catherine Sulem, violin
Gretchen Paxson-Abberger, violin
Elizabeth Morris, viola
Stephen Buck, violoncello

Formed in Toronto in 2010 by four friends with a mutual passion for exploring the string quartet literature, especially the works of Franz Joseph Haydn, the quartet is named after Johann Tost, to whom Haydn dedicated his frequently performed Opus 64 quartets. The Tost Quartet specializes in presenting music in intimate settings, bringing cheer to communities of those unable to get out to hear concerts in public performance spaces. (... please see the TSQ website for more information)

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Ensemble profiles

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  The Tost String Quartet

  • Instrument: specializing in presenting music in intimate settings
  • Location: Toronto, ON
  • 2 groupmuses played

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Past groupmuses (2)