Guillaume Tardif (Doctor of Musical Art, Eastman School, University of Rochester) is Associate Professor and Area Coordinator for Chamber Music and Strings at the Department of Music, University of Alberta. He is an active concert violinist, performing in Canada and abroad as soloist and chamber musician -recently at Carnegie Hall in
Paganini's 24 Caprices. His research also takes the form of recording productions and violin compositions. His main areas of teaching are violin, chamber music, string literature and string pedagogy. He also teaches for the Kule Institute and the School of Business ('Culture and Creativity from the Music and Business Perspectives). In the summer of 2012, he will be a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and at two international music festivals in Italy and the US. Among other ongoing projects, he is president of the Alberta String Association and leads the Enterprise String Quartet project (for which he was nominated for a TELUS Courage to Innovate Award, CIty of Edmonton). In recent years, he was the recipient of many grants from various agencies, such as Killam, Skarin, Edmonton Community Foundation, and Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

May 2012
Visiting Professor, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Concert, May 24, 2012 - CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION

May 15-16, 2012
Performance and teaching;
Liszt Academy, Budapest, Hungary

May 17-18, 2012
Performance and teaching; studio of Violinist Gyula Stuller,
Fribourg Conservatory, Switzerland

July 5-25, 2012
Artist Teacher; 2012 Schlern International Music Festival,
Völs am Schlern, Italy

August 3-12, 2012
Strings Faculty Member, Beverly Hills International Music Festival,
California, USA