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The Canadian soprano is the winner of the 2024 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award (Classical Music) from the Governor General's Performing Arts Award Foundation. She recently discussed making an album with her hero, Canadian author Margaret Atwood, on Q with Tom Power.
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He had a deep commitment to education and was a founding instructor at the ambitious but short-lived Advanced School of Contemporary Music in Toronto, along with pianist Oscar Peterson and bassist Ray Brown