British-born and based in Montreal, Canada, Rosemary Jane Shaw is the only British violist in the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, a composer and a professional yodeler (joking!)

Her parents were hoping for a pianist, however four year old Rosie insisted on playing the violin, and at age five earned a full scholarship to the Canberra School of Music, Australia. Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School led to a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Colorado, with the Takacs Quartet as her influential teachers, with also Oswald Lehnert and Judith Glyde. Philippe Djokic played a prominent role in her music education as well. She earned a Double Artist Diploma, studying with Mark Fewer and Rennie Regehr at The Glenn Gould School of Music in Toronto.

She has played in every seat in the viola section of the OSM, all over the globe, and still finds time to make dinner and watch Emily in Paris.

Rosemary Shaw was featured in an Italian Bravo documentary for HBO specializing in chamber music performance. Solo recitals with her American pianist Cody Guy Garrison have led to many collaborative adventures in Denver, Boulder, Toronto, Halifax and Montreal since 2015.

In her free time she enjoys composing, baking Scandinavian delights, skiing, ashtanga yoga and being with her loving family next door to a barn of loud cows in Montérégie. Future projects include the release of her self-composed album, “Rosie Unriveted”, and a privately sponsored chamber music series at The Montérégie Cultural Centre.