 Danise
Ferguson, Associate Professor of Music, was appointed
to the Faculty at Mount Allison in 1973. She teaches
Music Theory, Aural Skills, Music Appreciation, Cello,
Double Bass, String Methods and Chamber Music. She is
Director of the Chamber
Orchestra, and is active as a performing cellist
in both solo and chamber recitals with Mount Allison
colleagues. She also performs regularly as Principal
cellist of the Prince Edward Island Symphony Orchestra,
and as a member of the Confederation Centre Orchestra.
Professor Ferguson also gives private instruction to cello and bass students
of all ages, has taught at the Université de
Moncton, and is a member of the Sackville and N.B. Registered
Music Teachers' Associations. A number of her former
students have gone on to successful careers in performance
and teaching.
Research interests in British and Italian cello and string music have
taken her to the Royal Academy, Royal College and Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London, England, and to the Cherubini Conservatory
in Florence, Italy.
Danise Ferguson began her musical education in Calgary, Alberta, where
she was born into a musical family. Her first cello teacher was Jeanette
Whitney.
From the age of ten she was an active performer of solo, chamber
and orchestral music. Later she played in the National Youth Orchestra,
the
A F of M Congress of Strings and the Calgary Philharmonic.
At the University of Calgary she studied with cellist
Talmon Herz, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music
degree in Cello Performance. At the University of Western
Ontario she studied with cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and
bassist Jeffery Stokes, and graduated with a Master
of Music degree in Performance and Literature.
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