Bibik Duo is back on stage with the new program featuring sonatas by J.S. Bach, F. Schubert and J. Brahms as well as Tchaikovsky’s Waltz-Scherzo. This year duet’s new recital space is Parkdale United Church that generously offered four concert bookings for 2024-25 season and duo’s new concert series in town: “Music Dialogues”. Bibik Duo…
Beethoven, Frank, Saent-Saëns at Woodroffe United Church in October 2023.
Breathe Music- Chamber Music Series: Bibik Duo Music for Piano and Violin Saturday, June 22, 2024 7:30 p.m. 9:00 p.m. 10,000 Hours Piano Rehearsal Studio Ltd. 353 Montréal RoadOttawa, ON, K1L 6B1Canada(map) Program: Sonatina No. 1 for Violin and Piano in D Major Op. 137, Schubert Sonata No. 1 in G Major Op. 78, Brahms…
We had a beautiful concert at the School of Music on June 9th. Beethoven Spring sonata Brahms Sonata no 1 Brahms Scherzo Wienyavsky Polonaise in D
Congratulations to our students with Second Place at Ottawa Kiwanis Festival duet competition!This is the first year we decided to send our students to compete at Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival! Our students took second place among other duets and had a great experience participating in the festival, listening to others, learning and getting feed back…
Our April Events and Weddings Highlights The season has just begun and we already have tons of fun photos and memories about April events. It’s been a busy month here! We had few weddings, a corporate event, special occasions.
Duo Pleiades had a beautiful time recording videos at Gordon Harrison’s Canadian Landscape gallery in the beginning of March. Art and music always get along easily and smoothly. Duo is very grateful for this project made possible by the admins of the gallery located down town on Ottawa Sussex Drive to make it possible for…
What can be more fun than Violin POW Wow?! This was a memorable meeting with the Toronto based violin maker Edward Pong and University of Ottawa violin professor Timothy Chooi. Edward brought several violins and we enjoyed listening to their beautiful sound and differences in personalities. Timothy knows hours of violin music by memory, so…
On December 10, 2024 our students had a great party/ concert playing Fiddle and Holiday music for our family and friends as well as sharing treats and good food. Everyone learned tons of fiddle tunes and Christmas songs and performed as our soloists of all ages, duets, quartets, and as a big group. What a…
Anna Baksheeva Music Academy presents Holidays Student Recital on December 10, at 1pm. Location: Manordale Community Building at 68 Knoxdale Rd., Nepean Program: Students performances of Fiddle Tunes, Christmas music and more! Guest Artist is Coming as well: Anna Ludlow, fiddle, voice. Donations welcome!
Bibik Duo performed music by Schubert, Beethoven, Franck and Saint-Saëns on October 29, 2023 at Woodroffe United Church. Anna Baksheeva, violin and Natalia Bibik-Chabukiani shared their exciting program with some familiar and new faces from Ottawa music loving community. Duo is looking forward to more concerts in 2024! Please visit and subscribe to our YouTube…
We Welcome New Students for 2023-24 School Year!
Summer Afternoon With Brahms Sunday, August 13, 2.30pm Where: 207 Woodroffe Ave. Woodroffe United Church Admission by Donation Anna Baksheeva, violin Olena Gapey, cello Frederick Lacroix, piano Local professional musicians inviting everyone to join them for musical Sunday afternoon at Woodroffe United Church featuring best works of Johannes Brahms for violin and piano and violin,…
Ottawa Pianos welcomed Bibik Trio today with their debut concert performing music by Johannes Brahms. Legendary trio no.1 was performed entirely making the successful launching of the chamber group. Ottawa local musicians and music teachers came together to play lots of concerts and learn lots of repertoire together. Trio also splits into duos of cello…
Four of Our Students Are Getting Ready for OYO Auditions! We are so excited for our intermediate and advanced students who are preparing to audition for Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy Senior strings and Youth Symphonic Orchestra programs this year! Candidates are getting ready to face the audition judges on May 27-28 and perform their requirements.…
The first wedding of the year is finally here! We are so excited to welcome our first couple, a lovely newly wed from Toronto who came to Ottawa to celebrate their intimate wedding together with few friends and family at the tiny gallery down town Ottawa. Sweet small scale wedding surrounded by art and paintings,…
Duo Pleiades performed at the Dominion Chalmers chapel this Good Friday and added special musical content to the somber occasion of the day of the Cruxifixction of Jesus Christ. We thank the music director Nick Veltmeyer for inviting us to be part of this very celebration of Easter Friday service. Music performed: Prelude: Preludio –…
Anna Baksheeva Music Academy had a first ever Master Class for our students! Leading Violin teacher, Maestro Yosuke Kawasaki, National Arts Orchestra concertmaster and famous chamber musician gave an inspiring master class to our students. Students level 4-8, ages 10-15 participated in master class. Very nervous at first, children performed their pieces and worked with…
Anna Baksheeva Music Academy presents Master Class open for public This Saturday. Intermediate and Advanced violin students will present their pieces during the Master Class led by NAC Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki, violin. Piano Accompaniment by Natalia Bibik. Everyone is welcome to join us for this very special occasion! 1-3pm at St.Aiden‘s Church 934 Hamlet Rd.,…
Dear Friends and Students, please come and join us for this fun evening on December 19! Lots of great music done by our own violin students, teachers and guests artists. You can expect to hear and see lots of violins, some cellos, viola and piano. Maybe more ! Great music selection, fun surprises, treats and…
Violinist Anna Baksheeva and her piano partner Natalia Bibik present a concert in memory of Anna’s violin professor Yehonatan Berick who died last year. Music of Brahms and Schubert for violin and piano will be performed at Woodroffe United Church 207 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa at 1.30pm. Donations are accepted at the entrance. Everyone is welcome!…
Despite of ongoing pandemic, Student Holiday Concert at Southminster Church was a Success this year! We all worked hard, prepared, managed and organized our recital as a community of parents, students and teachers. We thank our piano accompanist Wayne for playing with us, we really appreciate it. Also special thanks to videographer Manuel for his…
An amazing little concert in a living room of one of my adult violin students took place last Saturday! Frederick Lacroix at the piano and myself on violin , we played Spring sonata by Beethoven, Schubert’s Sonatina no 1 and Vocalise by Rachmaninoff at the end. Everyone enjoyed the beautiful music right at their sight…
What a treat for residents of Prince of Wales Retirement Community to have a violinist performing during their special Christmas dinner last week! Christmas carols, new and old Holidays songs flavoured by classical favourites played with wit and passion by Anna Baksheeva with backing tracks accompaniments. Everyone had blast, even staff danced around and had…
Anna Baksheeva Music Academy Presents: “Let’s Share Music and Joy of Christmas Again!” Date: December 12, 2021 Time: 6pm-8pm Long awaited Holiday Student Recital is here this year! Covid-19 virus has taking all the performance opportunities from us for too long and still continue to do so… Yet we decided to dare to prepare for…
Exciting news! Duo Pleiades is happy to welcome Dejan into our team and looking forward for many great music making moments, concerts and weddings with him! Great skills, professional music education, ton of concertizing experience and performance full time career in Europe and Canada. Warm Welcome and Best Wishes to Dejan!
Anna Baksheeva has been truly blessed with so many weddings booked this Spring-Summer-Fall season! More than ever before weddings and special events clients are asking for a violin performance or duo with guitar! We are very grateful and happy to share music almost every weekend with people in Ottawa-Gatineau and travel all around to bring…
Exciting new duet is here and available for bookings! Please welcome Susan Toman on Irish Harp newly joined by Anna Baksheeva on violin and their duo that makes pretty heavenly sounds for the ears! This new string duo is available for WEDDINGS, YARD AND HOUSE CONCERTS, SPECIAL EVENTS AND MUCH MORE. Type of repertoire that’s…
Shout Out to 2021 RCM Violin Exams Participants !This year we had two student who took Royal Conservatory violin exams. They worked hard and prepared all the requirements for their summer remote examinations. We give shout out to Valentina who did level 2 violin and got 88 out of 100 at June exam and Jeff…
Our First Pandemic Style Video Student Recital Winter 2020-2021 Anna Baksheeva Music Academy celebrated our first pandemic style video recital where most of our students performed their pieces and Christmas tunes on video. It’s very exciting to see how our regular students and the brand new beginner students are playing and working hard after just…
Duo Pleiade, Andrew Mah and Anna Baksheeva had their first ever zoom concert! They performed on August 11 for the entire community of Algonquin college. They played variety of music from Classical to Brazilian choro, fiddle tunes. The internet connection was pretty good hopefully enjoyed the music at the end of their Summer school session.…
Fortunate to have been able to study at special music school in Vladivostok, Russia where the love for music started, Anna had this dream of being part of a tradition and innovation, fun and nourishing talents music school, where students of all ages would learn solid skills, meet new friends and play great variety of…
Anna Baksheeva and a friend guitarist are featured in Celtic and Blue Grass Fiddle Tunes album that just recorded and released during Corona Virus Summer of 2020. Slow and fast tunes of Celtic and American Old Times and new tunes are maybe fun to listen not only for fiddle music fans but for anyone who…