Elspeth Poole

She was born in Scotland and studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston, the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Juilliard School in New York where she earned a master's degree. She moved to Toronto in 2006 to participate in the Canadian Opera Company's Ring cycle, which inaugurated the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, and she still lives in that city, working as a freelance musician. She has been a member of many ensembles over the years, including several devoted to new music, has been a guest soloist with various Ontario orchestras, and co-founded a string quartet, Old Strings New Puppets.