⟨Note to submitters: this is not a record label but a placeholder entry for LCCN roles as per [g4.6.2], primarily "Record Company" and "Funded By;" see also the "Canada Council" artist entry for relevant production and technical credits⟩
The Canada Council for the Arts, or Conseil des arts du Canada in French, colloquially known as the Canada Council, is a state-funded arts council, established in 1957 as a "Crown corporation" (Société de l'État, a form of private incorporation for organizations directly and wholly owned by the Canadian federal or provincial government). The Council is managed by the Department of Canadian Heritage and functions as a secretariat for the Canadian Commission for UNESCO.
In addition, the Council administers the national Art Bank, the world's largest repository of contemporary Canadian art, and the renowned Musical Instrument Bank (MIB), which currently consists of 16 antique violins, 8 cellos, and several fine bows (restored and maintained by Ric Heinl of George Heinl & Co. Limited in Toronto, Ontario). The MIB collection was established in 1985 with a $100,000 bequest from the Barwick family. (US-Canadian harpsichordist Frances Duncan Barwick (1909—1984) from Kalamazoo, Michigan, studied with Marguerite Delcourt in Paris and Arnold Dolmetsch in England, settling in Canada in the early 1930s. She inherited a lifelong collection of fine art and rare books of her elder brother, Douglas Moerdyke Duncan (1902—1968), as well as a massive fortune of their father, business mogul Smith Frederick Duncan (1874—1963). Subsequently, Frances and her husband, Jack Payne Barwick, established the J.P. Barwick Estate, which donated their art collections and monetary funds to the National Library Of Canada and National Gallery Of Canada, Carleton University, Ottawa, and several other Canadian universities, as well as the Council for the Arts.) Additional fundraising efforts of Montréal entrepreneur (1929—2015) and renowned cellist (b. 1950) ensured the continuous expansion.
Over the years, the Council's Musical Instrument Bank had supported such distinguished musicians as Lara St. John, Alexandre da Costa, Martin Beaver, Judy Kang, Denise Djokic, Marc Djokic, and Roman Borys. Since 2000, all instruments have been distributed on three-year loans among Canadian violinists and cellists chosen through a triennial nationwide competition.
The MIB collection & 2023 stipendiates
1689 𝄞 'Baumgartner' Stradivarius violin – Alice Lee
1690 𝄢 Francesco Rugeri cello – David Liam Roberts
ca.1696 𝄢 'Bonjour' Stradivarius cello – Bryan Cheng
1700 𝄞 'Taft' Stradivarius violin - Daniel Dastoor
ca.1700 𝄞 'Bell' Giovanni Tononi violin - Lucy Wang
1706 𝄢 'Brott-Turner' David Tecchler cello – Denis Brott
1715 𝄞 Domenico Montagnana violin - Eva Aronian
1717 𝄞 'Windsor-Weinstein' Stradivarius violin - Emma Meinrenken
1730 𝄢 'Newland' Joannes Franciscus Celoniatus cello – Daniel Hass
1747 𝄞 'Palmason' Januarius Gagliano violin – Julia Mirzoev
ca.1750 𝄢 Gennaro Gagliano cello – Cameron Crozman
1757 𝄞 'Bolognese' Carlo Tononi violin – Yu Kai Sun
1759 𝄞 'Jeanne Lamon' Santo Serafin violin – Naomi Dumas
1768 𝄞 'Miller' J. Gagliano violin – Gregory Lewis
ca.1769 𝄢 Spanish cello attrib. Juan I Guillami, Barcelona + ca.1830 'Shaw' J.D. Adam cello bow – Leanna Rutt
1820 𝄞 Joannes Franciscus Pressenda violin – Kumiko Sakamoto
1824 𝄢 'McConnell' Nicolaus II Gagliano cello – Andrea Stewart
ca.1830-50 𝄞 'Eckhardt-Gramatte-Joachim' Georges I Chanot violin – Astrid Nakamura
1851 𝄞 Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin – Vivian Kukiel
1869 𝄞 J-B Vuillaume violin + bow – Tiffany Yeung
1871 𝄞 J-B Vuillaume violin – David Baik
1900 𝄞 Stefano Scarampella violin – Christopher Whitley
1902 𝄞 Enrico Rocca violin – Shannon Lee
1929 𝄢 Carlo Giuseppe Oddone cello – Christopher Hwang