Bios: Camilli String Quartet

Marie-Claude Brunet, viola

Originally from Winnipeg, Marie-Claude studied at the University of Toronto with David Zafer before heading West and making her home in Vancouver, where she studied with Gerald Stanick and Steven Dann. She was a founding member of the Babayaga string quartet. As a busy freelance violist, she played with the VSO, the CBC Radio Orchestra, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet tours, the Ford Theatre productions (Showboat, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph and the Technicolor Dream Coat, and Phantom). She also took part in many recording projects including major film scores, TV series and for various recording artists. Over the years she has performed with Ray Charles, Barbara Streisand, Sheila Jordan, Page and Plant, Micheal Bubble and The Who. She is currently a core member of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and teaches privately.

Angela Cavadas, violin

Angela Cavadas was the recipient of numerous awards early in her musical life, most notably winning First Prize in the CBC Young Artists Competition at the age of nineteen. Renowned violinists Steven Staryk and Ruggiero Ricci were major mentors in her training. Over the course of her distinguished and varied career, she has collaborated with many outstanding instrumentalists and conductors and has participated in hundreds of concerts, of which a number were broadcast nationally. She has enjoyed the diversity of performing as a soloist and in chamber music concerts, as well as playing for opera, ballet, musical theatre, film recording, and folk-dance troupes.

Angela is Associate Concertmaster of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra [VOO] and was Acting Concertmaster for their 2017-18 music season. She has also played for West Coast Chamber Music since its inception and has worked with the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Island Symphony, Lions Gate Sinfonia, Chilliwack Symphony, and the now defunct CBC Radio Orchestra. Angela was the violin instructor for the University Transfer Program at Douglas College for forty years and currently teaches violin and piano privately and for the Arts Conservatory in Richmond, BC.

Finn Manniche, cello

Finn is a cellist and guitarist from Vancouver. He went to UBC where he studied cello with Eric Wilson.
These days he plays guitar and cello in a gypsy-jazz group called Van Django. With them he has toured Canada, China and Ireland. Finn is also the cellist of the newly-formed Camilli String Quartet. With his familiarity with pop music and ability to play the cello in many styles, Finn has been called to play on many recordings.
He also does arranging for Canadian artists such as Steven Page, 54/40, and Murray McLauchlan.