New Violin Students Welcome for 2023-24 Season!
We Welcome New Students for 2023-24 School Year!
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Professional Chamber Music Recital
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,…
Bibik Trio Debut at Ottawa Pianos
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…
Ottawa Youth Symphony Orchestra Academy Auditions
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.…
First Wedding of the Year 2023
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,…
Good Friday Easter Service at Dominion Chalmers United Church
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 –…
Bibik Duo Presents: Afternoon with Mozart, Schubert and Brahms
January 28, 2pm Ottawa Pianos (Yamaha House) 1412 Bank Street Ottawa’s new professional duet called “Bibik Duo” is made of Russian Canadian violinist Anna Baksheeva and Ukrainian Canadian pianist Natalia Bibik. This is their first year of playing concerts together. They invite everyone who loves classical music to their upcoming recital at Yamaha piano store…
Violin Students had Master Class with Yosuke Kawasaki
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…
Violin Students Master with NAC Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki
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.,…
Violin Studio Holiday Concert – Party
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…
Violin and Piano Recital in Memory of Yehonatan Berick
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!…
Holiday Student Concert was a Success!
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…
House Concert with pianist Frederick Lacroix
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…
Christmas Music at Prince of Wales Retirement Community
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…
Holiday Student Concert on December 12
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…
New Duo Partner: Guitarist Dejan Rafailovic
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!
What a Fantastic Wedding Season This Year !
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…
New! Irish Harp and Violin Duet
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…
2021 RCM Exams Participation
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…
First Video Student Recital
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 Pleiades performed for Algonquin College community on Zoom
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.…
New! Anna Baksheeva Music Academy is now open!
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…
Celtic and Blue Grass Fiddle Tunes Album on iTunes
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…
Welcome to Anna Baksheeva’s blog for violin students!
Welcome, Everyone! This is my great pleasure to welcome you to my violin learning and playing blog! I love violin and hope you do too! My blog is intended for my violin students and anyone who loves this instrument and curious about it, who wants to hear new ideas of how to improve and work…