Q: When did you start playing?
A: I started the playing the bassoon in Grade 7
Q: What made you choose your instrument?
A: When I entered Grade 7 at school I had already been playing flute for two years and the piano for five years. Everyone in my Grade 7 class was just starting to learn an instrument. It cost $30 a month to rent a clarinet or other instruments from Ward Music, but the school owned a bassoon and it was available for $5 a month. I thought that since my mom had already bought me a flute, she may be convinced to spend just $5 a month on a bassoon so that I would not be bored in band class.
Q: What is your most memorable HPO experience?
A: My first day in my new job as second bassoon. I got on the GO bus at Union Station in Toronto and thought to myself, “I am the luckiest person in the world.”
Q: What kind of things do you like to do when you’re not playing?
A: Play with my daughter. Go on dates with my husband. Cook. Bake. Work out at the gym.
Q: Who is your favourite composer to play or listen to?
A: To play: Brahms. To listen to: Elton John or Dave Matthews.
Q: Favourite book? Movie?
A: Favourite book: Out of Africa; Movie: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Q: Do you have a secret indulgence?
A: Not a secret- good chocolate
Q: Who was your hero when you were 10? Who is your hero now?
A: Don’t have one in particular
