Dances with Ghosts

Chamber Orchestra of Edmonton Program Season 2025/2026

Wolf • Italian Serenade

Bottesini • Allegro di Concerto alla Mendelssohn

Hilda Cowie • double bass

Grella-Możejko • Totentanz

Respighi • Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3

Soloist

Bassist Hilda Cowie has always been surrounded by music. The daughter of a bassist and a trombonist, her path to a career in music was a natural one. She was lucky to come up in the Halifax City Schools Music program, which provided strong choral and orchestral instrument training. As a teen she began studying the bass with her mother, a member of Symphony Nova Scotia and continued as a student of renowned bassist Joel Quarrington at the University of Toronto and the RCM Glenn Gould School.