By Cam Fuller, The StarPhoenix:
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James Ehnes travels the world, and always knew he would. Photograph by: Photographer: Benjamin Ealovega.
Before the record-setting Juno Awards (the eight and ninth coming this past weekend), before the more than 30 albums, there was just a boy with a violin growing up in Brandon.But even then, James Ehnes had an idea of what his life would be like.“This is kind of nerdy but funny in retrospect,” Ehnes laughs. “I would go into my parent’s bedroom — that would be Carnegie Hall. And then I would go down into the basement and that would be Vienna. The living room, that’s Paris: I would go on tour in my own house.”
How right he was. So far this year, he’s been to London, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, German and Nashville. In two weeks, he’ll be in Prague.
That kind of life came as no surprise to Ehnes because he grew up in music. His parents met on tour — his mother a ballet dancer, his father a musician in the orchestra. She would go on to start a ballet school while his father taught trumpet at Brandon University.
Naturally, talent had something to do with it. He started violin at four, progressed rapidly, and stood out from his classmates and knew it.
“It certainly was the love of music that pushed me along, but I can’t deny that having that feeling that I was kind of special at this was helpful. I’m really thankful that I got that kind of encouragement from my family and my teachers and peers...Continue reading...
Before the record-setting Juno Awards (the eight and ninth coming this past weekend), before the more than 30 albums, there was just a boy with a violin growing up in Brandon.But even then, James Ehnes had an idea of what his life would be like.“This is kind of nerdy but funny in retrospect,” Ehnes laughs. “I would go into my parent’s bedroom — that would be Carnegie Hall. And then I would go down into the basement and that would be Vienna. The living room, that’s Paris: I would go on tour in my own house.”
How right he was. So far this year, he’s been to London, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, German and Nashville. In two weeks, he’ll be in Prague.
That kind of life came as no surprise to Ehnes because he grew up in music. His parents met on tour — his mother a ballet dancer, his father a musician in the orchestra. She would go on to start a ballet school while his father taught trumpet at Brandon University.
Naturally, talent had something to do with it. He started violin at four, progressed rapidly, and stood out from his classmates and knew it.
“It certainly was the love of music that pushed me along, but I can’t deny that having that feeling that I was kind of special at this was helpful. I’m really thankful that I got that kind of encouragement from my family and my teachers and peers...Continue reading...
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