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Professor Timothy Steeves
Canada and America
Canadian pianist Timothy Steeves is widely recognised for his dynamic artistry, both as a soloist and as one half of Duo Concertante, withviolinist Nancy Dahn. Over almost three decades, Duo Concertante has commissioned more than seventy new works, and their performances and recordings have earned praise from Gramophone and The Strad for their technical brilliance and musical conviction.
Timothy and Nancy co-founded the Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival in 2000, bringing together emerging musicians with world-class artists for two weeks of intensive learning. He is also a highly regarded teacher, having led hundreds of masterclasses and workshops across Canada.
As a soloist, Timothy released a recording of Haydn sonatas on Marquis Classics. With Duo Concertante, he has produced fifteen commercial recordings, including the complete Beethoven sonatas, Schubert's complete violin-and-piano works and Bach's Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard, on labels including ATMA, Delphian, PARMA and Centrediscs.
Timothy maintains an active international schedule, appearing at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Forbidden City Concert Hall and Roy Thomson Hall. Originally from Saskatoon, he studied at the University of Western Ontario and trained in Germany at the Hannover and Freiburg music academies. In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2021 he received the John Lewis Paton Distinguished Professor title from Memorial University where he taught from 1996 to 2026.
