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Vermont cellist Joshua Morris’s golden year
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Published: 7 August 2017
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As a master’s student at , Joshua Morris, MMus’17, often walked through the music library where a Golden Violin sculpture sits on display.
The display case includes the names of the winners of the annual Golden Violin Competition – one of the most significant music prizes in Canada, which comes with a $25,000 cash award.“
It was kind of a surreal feeling thinking ‘oh, my name is going to be inscribed on that now’,” says Morris about winning the 2016-17 prize, awarded each year to an outstanding string player enrolled in ’s Schulich School of Music.