Masters in Music Performance (Violin), Brandon University
14 years teaching experience (Winnipeg, Brandon, and Kingston)
23 years professional performance experience
Bio
Sandra Kanjee is a violinist and harpist living in Winnipeg, MB. She has recently completed her Masters in Music at Brandon University, studying with Kerry DuWors. Prior to moving to Manitoba, she was a regular member of the Kingston Symphony Orchestra, Concertmaster of the chamber strings group 13!, and Principal Second Violin in the Quinte Symphony Orchestra (Belleville).
She began her professional career in 2001 and enjoys performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. Recent performances include concerts with Canadian Tenor, Ken Lavigne on his “Road to Carnegie Hall” tour, as well as solos with the Quinte Symphony Orchestra and Orchestra Kingston. Her recent recordings include the sound track composed by Ken Nichols for the MTS “Stories from Home” project titled “Wheat City: 1900s: Making Modern Brandon.”
In addition to her performance career, Sandra is an active and engaged music teacher, with 14 years of full-time teaching experience in Kingston, Brandon, and Winnipeg. She was the in-school violin instructor in the Mulberry Waldorf School in Kingston. More recently she taught as a violin instructor with the Eckhardt-Gramatté Conservatory of Music in Brandon, and as the harp teacher and head violin instructor at Tauber School of Music in Winnipeg.
Sandra teaches a variety of styles and using different method books, depending on the needs of each individual student. For violin/viola, she uses both the Suzuki and the Royal Conservatory programs, but includes fiddle music and popular music as well. For harp, she has studied both the Grandjany and Salzado techniques, and has had students on all sizes of harp from non-lever harps to full concert harps. Most of her harp students study a mix of classical harp and Celtic harp, with individual programs of study designed for each student.