Lena Turofsky, Bass
Lena is the Assistant Principal Bass in Symphony Nova Scotia. She graduated with her Bachelor of Music Degree in Performance from the University of Toronto in 1978. She was a member of the National Youth Orchestra for two summers, and has played with the National Ballet of Canada, the Hamilton Philharmonic, Orchestra London, the Thunder Bay Symphony and many other orchestras in southern Ontario. She moved to Halifax in 1978 to join the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and was a founding member of SNS. She has performed with Scotia Festival of Music since its inception, and has also been a member of the Charlottetown Summer Festival, in the Anne of Green Gables Orchestra.
Lena teaches at Acadia University, Dalhousie University and the University of PEI. She also teaches for the Halifax Regional School Board, and is a faculty member at the Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts.
In September, Lena will be leaving for a sabbatical year performing with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in Australia.