Victor Feldbrill conducts the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in October, 2017, in a concert titled With Glowing Hearts, part of the Canada Mosaic project.From childhood on, all he ever wanted to do was make music. Something of a prodigy, Victor Feldbrill first conducted the Toronto Symphony at the age of 18 in 1943, and went on to have an association with that orchestra over seven decades.
By the time he entered Harbord Collegiate at 13, he had such strong leadership skills that the head of the music program, Brian McCool, was happy to pass him his baton to rehearse the school’s orchestra as concertmaster. The attractive student couple was asked by the Women’s Committee of the TSO to help organize young people’s concerts to build future audiences, which they did. Soon Victor came to the attention of Sir Ernest MacMillan, conductor of the symphony, and Ettore Mazzoleni, the Swiss-born principal of the Toronto Conservatory of Music and sole instructor in conducting in English Canada. These connections had a lasting impact on the young man’s life and career.
On a veterans grant, he enrolled at the Royal Conservatory, studying with Canadian violin soloist Kathleen Parlow toward an Artist Diploma, while Zelda pursued her studies to become a social worker. After graduating in 1949, he joined the first violins of the TSO, and conducted its pops and children’s concerts. He seized any opportunity to conduct the CBC Symphony Orchestra and made guest appearances with the BBC orchestras in England.
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