A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music's Performance Diploma Program, the Orchestral Training Program, and earning a Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Toronto, cheryl has studied and performed music from early Baroque to Contemporary. cheryl has experienced solo, orchestral, and ensemble opportunities prior to her current focus of experimental and improv.
She continues to learn from and enjoy all playing opportunities, including her continuing involvement with the improvising and experimental community, as well as workshops and visiting artists. She is a founding member of quasiMODAL, a floating electro-accoustic improv trio that has played several jazz festivals.
Using her cello with electronic and looping technologies as well as unusual noise makers, cheryl creates textures, rhythms and soundscapes over which she layers her cello, creating washes of sound and colour, as well as her trademark soaring melodies.
Cheryl enjoys working with singers, dancers, visual artists, poets and movie makers, and welcomes all inquiries. She currently resides and teaches in Toronto.
2001-2002
Part-time member of Niagara Symphony
1992-1996
University of Toronto - Faculty of Music
Degree in Performance under Daniel Domb
Chamber Music studies under Norbert Kraft, Brian Epperson, Shauna Rolston and Lorand Fenyves
Additional Baroque cello studies with Sergei Istomin
Contemporary Studies with Gary Kulesha
1987-1990
Royal Conservatory of Music - Artists'
Diploma Program graduate
1988 -1990 under Denis Brott
1990-1992
Orchestral Training Program
1990 - 1991 cello studies under various visiting artists including Kim Scholes and Jose Louis Garcia
1992 under Daniel Domb
1988-1992
Member of the Royal Conservatory Orchestra under the direction of John Barnum and Jose Louis Garcia and including visiting guest conductors of the Toronto Symphony