Jo Ann Simpson CONTACT Jo Ann Simpson 613 729 8207 | Jo Ann Simpson Jo Ann Simpson is best known professionally as the manager and artistic director of Virtuosi Productions - The Music Makers, specializing in booking classical and jazz musicians as background music for weddings and special events. www.virtuosi.info Virtuosi Productions is also a respected contractor having booked orchestras as large as 60 musicians to perform with such artists as Anne Murray, Colin James, Leahy, Sarah Brightman, Diana Krall, Holly Cole ... to name a few! Virtuosi Productions also manages the career of violinist Ioan Harea www.ioanharea.com assisting him in the production of his many cds and videos, his tours and his concert series on The Fourth Stage of the National Arts Centre. As a bassoonist, Jo Ann Simpson has performed with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Ottawa Symphony and the Kingston Symphony, The Montreal Symphony, the McGill Chamber Orchestra, The Montreal Chamber Orchestra and The Quebec Symphony. Presently Jo Ann is principal bassoon of l`Ochestre Symphonique de Gatineau as well as the bassoon professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Gatineau and Carleton University. She also teaches the bassoonists at Canterbury High School and Centre d`excellence artistique Delasalle and runs The Beginner Bassoon Program at the Ottawa Youth Orchestra Academy, as well as teaching privately! |
