Virginia Belfer

1948 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	Virginia Belfer
  Born	1948	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Female
  Interesting	music
  Name	Ginni Grant
  Name	Virginia Palmer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-488578
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I488578	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Samuel D. Belfer,   b. 17 Jun 1914,   d. 11 Nov 1998, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Frances Field,   b. 1918,   d. 27 Jan 1991  (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F300054	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward Palmer
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F300055	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Theatre. and Its People By JOHN GARDINER Virginia Belfer Eleven-year-old Virginia Belfer of Galt, Ont., hailed as Canada's outstanding child pianist, will be the guest soloist with the Windsor Symphony Orchestra at the concert Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre. The concert will be junior symphony type, and is sponsored by the Women's Association of the Windsor Symphony Society. Matti Holli will conduct. Miss Belfer is one of Canada's greatest prodigies and an acclaimed artist in the concert field. She commenced study of the piano shortly before her fifth birthday, and by the age of six she had already won several tropies, awards and scholarships in various music festivals. Virginia has played publicly for many organizations and has won recognition by leading musicians in both Canada and the United States. Her television debut was made at the age of eight and she has since made several television appearances as guest artist. At nine years of age Virginia was guest artist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Massey Hall, with Walter Susskind conducting and since then she played with several Canadian Symphony Orchestras and has given complete recitals in Toronto, Ottawa and other Canadian cities. Although this child loves and plays the works of the great composers, she also enjoys improvising and composing her own melodies. Improvisation in the style of various composers is done by Virginia who asks the audience to submit five notes, and from these notes she makes up pieces in the style of Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Strauss and others. This remarkable fete is done by very few artists and is a great delight to audiences. Her first piece of music to be published is Christmas Angels, published by the Harris Music Co. in Oakville. Virginia wrote both the music and the words. Virginia is a pupil of the celebrated Canadian teacher, Mona Bates of Toronto, and studies composition with Court Stones of Toronto. The Windsor Star Windsor, Ontario, Canada Thu, Dec 10, 1959 Page 31

  
  

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  Born - 1948 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth