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William Aide (March 27, 1938) is a Canadian pianist, poet and teacher with a long career as a soloist, chamber musician and accompanist. Later in his career he started writing poetry and has had four collections of his verse published.

Biography

He was born and raised in Timmins, Ontario. In his teens he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto’s summer school with Pierre Souvairan and Boris Roubakine, gaining his ARCT in 1954.

From 1956 to 1959 his principal teacher was Alberto Guerrero, under whom he obtained the Artist and Licentiate Diplomas of the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto. In 1961, with the support of the Canada Council, he studied at the Juilliard School of Music with Beveridge Webster, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in music. In 1962 he won first prize in the CBC Talent Festival and the Canada Council Award for Young Performing Artists.

William Aide toured the U.S. for Columbia Artists with bass-baritone, James Milligan, and the U.S.S.R. with mezzo-soprano, Phyllis Mailing. He has been concerto soloist with the Toronto, Winnipeg and National Arts Centre Orchestras, including many national broadcasts with the Winnipeg CBC Orchestra. The CBC has recorded many solo chamber and song recitals, including work with Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Rivka Golani, Elizabeth Söderström, Lois Marshall, Catherine Robbin and Roxolana Roslak.

He has held faculty positions at Mount Allison and Acadia Universities, the University of Manitoba and the University of Western Ontario. In 1978 he joined the music faculty of the University of Toronto until his retirement in 2003. A number of his students have gone on to significant careers, Tomson Highway, Douglas Finch, Sara Davis Buechner, Renée Rosnes and Angela Park among them.

As a performer and promoter of Canadian music, Aide has premiered works of John Beckwith, Walter Buczynski, Samuel Dolin, S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté, Srul Irving Glick, Peter Paul Koprowski and Arthur Polson.

His interest in poetry was stimulated by the work of Margaret Avison, and he has published 5 books with Oberon Press.

He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2012.

Books (Oberon Press):

Starting From Porcupine

Massenet’s Elegy

Letters to a Musical Friend

Pieces in My Hands

Sea Voyage with Pigs

Students:

Tomson Highway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomson_Highway,

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aide-william-emc

https://music.utoronto.ca/mob-our-people.php?fid=205

https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/classicalabeyond/25738-massenet-s-elegy-william-aide

https://www.oberonpress.ca/titles/?v=2014#massenets_elegy

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