Isabella Perron
Isabella after winning the 2024 Corcoran Concerto Prize, Toronto.
Isabella on stage at Carnegie Hall, NYC, performing Four Seasons by Vivaldi and Astor Piazzolla, 2024.
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Isabella D’Éloize Perron brings incredible style and passion to all of her violin performances. She believes that music and nature are deeply intertwined, and that they both have the ability to teach us about the human experience. A child protege, she started learning violin when she was four years old with her grandmother as her first teacher. In 2024, she performed Vivaldi's and Piazzolla's Four Seasons as solo violinist at a sold-out symphony tour in North America, including her debut on the Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall, NYC.
She made her solo debut at 7 years old with the I Musici String Ensemble and has performed with orchestras worldwide winning numerous awards including First Prize at the National Music Festival of Canada (2014), First Prize at the International Rado Competition for Young Musicians Concertino Praga (2015). She holds a Bachelor of Music Performance from The Glenn Gould School in Toronto and is the winner of the prestigious 2023-24 Corcoran Grand Prize.
Isabella was recognized as CBC Radio Canada’s Classical Revelation for 2020-2021 and has completed her Bachelor of Music under the tutelage of Erika Raum at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto. Originally from Montreal, her formal music studies began at Mount Royal University’s Royal Conservatory of Music in Alberta, studying with violinist Bill Van der Sloot from 2010 to 2017. Throughout her development, she has been mentored by acclaimed violinists such as Andres Cardenes, Ian Swensen, and Gwen Hoebig, and participated in masterclasses with esteemed artists including Tadeusz Gadzina, Ning Feng, and Pinchas Zukerman. The Calgary Philharmonic recognized her as their "Emerging Artist" during their 2017-2018 season. Perron’s exceptional talent has been further acknowledged with awards such as the NYO’s Michael Measures Prize (2020) and the Orford Musique competition's Grand Prize. As well, Isabella is an accomplished singer and pianist. She is known to experiment with music, exploring both classical and contemporary genres, and enjoys playing demanding violin works while also singing. She currently performs on a Guadagnini 1768 violin, generously on loan from CANIMEX.
Jason Krugman
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Jason Krugman is an American light sculptor who develops novel techniques for arranging electricity and light in three dimensions. He considers the efficient structure of plants as an inspiration, particularly their fluid transfer of energy which he mirrors in his large-scale light sculptures using circuit boards. His monumental wave structures can be found suspended in New Lab at Brooklyn Navy Yard and in public-private spaces throughout the USA. In his work, organic gestures are revealed through vast illuminated arrays, balancing mass-produced exactitude with flowing choreography. Working primarily on site-specific commissions, Krugman utilizes each artwork as a way to invest in the research and develop of his LED systems. In his 15-year career, Krugman has specialized in developing sculptures that manifest the same forms at vastly differing scales, from the palm of one’s hand to soaring atriums and rolling green fields. For Tuscan Creative Lab, he is designing a large lit ‘cloak’ to hang behind Isabella as she performs with Simon at the Castle di Gargonza concert. The circuit board sculpture will then be exhibited at the Lab.
Simon Gidora
Simon Gidora and Isabella Perron, May, 2024 Mazzoleni Concert Hall, Toronto
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Canadian musician and baritone Simon Gidora is a graduate of the Artist Diploma in Vocal Performance at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto on full scholarship. Previously, he received his Bachelor of Music in violin performance with a minor in conducting from the Schulich School of Music McGill University, where he studied voice concurrently with John MacMaster. Notable achievements including winning first place in the chamber music category at the 2014 National Music Festival of Canada as part of the Forza String Quartet. He further honed his skills at prestigious events such as the Tanglewood Music Festival and the Pender Harbour Chamber Music Festival, collaborating with esteemed musicians like James Campbell and the Lafayette string quartet. Gidora's dedication to music education has also led him to serve as a teaching assistant at the Summer Soundfest music camp of the Haw Par Music Foundation in Hong Kong.
An award-winning performer, Simon remains passionate about all music, both classical and contemporary, and continues to play violin in a string quartet, as well as piano. In his spare time, Simon loves to cook, and to spend as much time as possible outdoors where he finds the natural world provides endless artistic inspiration. He grew up in a small farming community on the Canadian west coast.