Music lovers can hear what a $3-million violin sounds like when Canadian violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou and her Guarneri fiddle are featured in a fundraising concert June 6 for Ottawa's Thirteen Strings.
Hou has the 1729 Guarneri for a three-year loan, thanks to the instrument bank of the Canada Council for the Arts.
The council holds a competition every three years for the prized instruments in the collection, and Hou won first prize in the 2006 competition. She's the first musician to win the competition twice in a row. Hou, who was born in Shanghai, grew up in Mississauga and studied at Juilliard, had also won top prize in 2003, and it was then that she first chose the collection's "Ex-Heath" Guarneri.
~ From: Ottawa Citizen ~
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