Andrea Weber Steckly was born and raised on a farm outside of the Ontario town of Elmira. As a child, she would sit and listen to her older sisters practicing the piano or the violin or singing in a children’s choir and her imagination was captured. Once Andrea turned 6 years old, the 3 of them headed off together to piano lessons and waited for one another as they suffered under the rule of their eccentric European piano teacher. Somehow, … Read More
Cathy Anderson is a member of the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony and a freelance cellist and teacher based in Kitchener, Ontario. She has performed with the: St. Lawrence, Penderecki, Borealis and Lafayette String Quartets at the Festival of the Sound and the Elora Festival, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio Two. She has played solo recitals at: Various colleges and universities in Ontario, and more recently has played duet concerts with bassist (and husband) Brian Baty. Cathy has performed concertos … Read More
Take your typical rock band – guitar, keyboard, bass, drums and vocals – and replace the guitar and keyboard with a string quartet and – voila! – you have: The Classical Rock Show! This show features the Mannheim Virtuosi String Quartet (MVSQ), performing on acoustic and electric instruments, with Ross Daly on 4 and 5-string violins and viola, Angela Cox-Daly on violins, Andrea Weber Steckly on 4 and 6-string violins and Cathy Anderson on cellos. Completing this phenomenal band, we have Robert Laporte on … Read More
