Toronto-born violinist Shane Kim has been a member of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since 2012.

Prior positions include Principal violinist of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra and concertmaster appearances with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and at the Aspen, Spoleto-Charleston, and Lakes Area music festivals.

Winner of the Orford String Quartet Award, Shane is a founding member of the XIA String Quartet, with fellow TSO musicians Theresa Rudolph and Joseph Johnson, and Robert Uchida of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Shane has performed chamber music at the Ravinia Festival, Taos Chamber Music Festival, and Encuentro de Musica in Santander, Spain; and has served as a resident artist at the Toronto Summer Music Festival.

Shane received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Toronto, where he studied with noted pedagogue David Zafer and chamber music with Lorand Fenyves. Mr. Kim continued his studies at the Yale School of Music with Peter Oundjian and the Tokyo String Quartet. Other important teachers include Paul Kantor, Gerard Kantarjian, and TSO violinist Mi-Hyon Kim.

A native of Toronto, Peter Seminovs is currently in his sixth year as violinist with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Prior to joining the TSO, Peter performed with the Utah Symphony, where he had the opportunity to travel on a month-long tour throughout Germany, Austria, and Slovenia in 2005. In 2011, Peter performed in the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Sun Valley, Idaho and will be returning in 2012.

Peter began playing the violin at the age of five. His studies led him to a Violin Performance Degree at the University of Toronto (where he also minored in Fine Art History) and from there to a Master's diploma at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. His principal teachers include Yaakov Geringas, Atis Bankas and Sally Thomas. From an early age, Peter won competitions and scholarships throughout North America including prizes at the Kiwanis International Music Festival, The Royal Conservatory of Music, the University of Toronto, the Mannes College of Music, and First Prize at the National Canadian Music Competition.

As a soloist and chamber musician, Peter is particularly interested in the music of his Latvian heritage and has performed at various Latvian Concert Association programs throughout Canada and the United States. An avid chamber musician, each year Peter enjoys playing with fellow colleagues from the TSO in the Five Small Concerts series held by the Toronto Symphony Associates.

In the community, he is a member of the Bach Consort, a charity ensemble that performs works by J.S. Bach and others to raise money for local not-for-profit organizations, including the TSO for its education programs. Peter regularly coaches the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as the Royal Conservatory Orchestra, and is in his fifth season participating in the TSO's Adopt-A-Player program. Peter enjoys teaching privately, and specializes in helping other aspiring violinists prepare and take orchestral auditions.

Peter enjoys playing tennis, golf, collecting antique watches, traveling, relaxing at the cottage and taking his dog, Harley (Pug and Jack Russell Terrier mix) on long walks.

As a successful freelance musician, Canadian violist Ivan Ivanovich has performed with the Canadian Opera Company, National Arts Centre, National Ballet, Esprit, and Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestras.

Active as a chamber musician, he has performed many recitals with the Sonora String Quartet under the mentorship of the former Orford Quartet violist Terrence Helmer. Mr. Ivanovich studied violin with the late Lorand Fenyves, and viola with Steven Dann at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory in Toronto. He also holds a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School in New York, as a scholarship student of Masao Kawasaki.

Emmanuelle Beaulieu Bergeron, the Associate Principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, enjoys a diverse career as a recitalist, chamber and orchestral musician, and teacher.

An accomplished chamber musician, Emmanuelle is a member of the Tokai String Quartet. She is regularly invited to perform in festivals and series across Canada. She has participated in a Debut Atlantic tour in the Maritimes; played at the Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Ahuntsic en Fugue, and Concerts aux Iles-du-Bic in Quebec; Sound at Parry Sound, Toronto Summer Music, and Stratford Music Festival in Ontario; and Music-by-the-Sea and the Pender Harbour Music Festival in British Columbia.

She has also performed as guest principal cellist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa and Les Violons du Roy in Quebec City.

As a teacher, Emmanuelle has collaborated with students at the Yellow Barn Young Artists Program in Vermont, Music at Port Milford, and at the Toronto Summer Music Festival.

Emmanuelle is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, the Juilliard School and Rice University. Her teachers have included Denis Brott, Joel Krosnick, Bonnie Hampton, and Norman Fischer. She is a prizewinner of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, Prix d’Europe Competition, and Radio-Canada’s Young Artist Competition. She is a twice-awarded laureate of the Canada Council Bank of Instruments competition.

She is also an alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Sarasota Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, UCLA Piatigorsky Seminar for cellists, and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England.

Emmanuelle was born in rural Quebec, grew up in Montreal, and currently lives in Toronto, where she listens to French radio every day often while eating cheese and baguette.

Miles Haskins has been serving as clarinetist and solo bass clarinetist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra since the 2017 season, after serving as acting associate principal for the 2016-17 season. Before moving to Canada, Mr. Haskins was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.

An accomplished orchestral musician, Haskins has performed and toured across North America in  many ensembles, including The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera,  Florida Orchestra, and Florida Grand Opera.  

As a chamber musician, Haskins regularly performs as a part of the TSO Chamber Soloists and  has appeared in numerous festivals and societies throughout the US and Canada, including  Toronto Summer Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Amici Ensemble,  ChamberFest Dubuque, Baltimore Chamber Music Society, among others.  

A committed educator, Haskins serves on the clarinet faculty of the University of Toronto and as  the woodwind coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Additionally, he has presented  masterclasses at the Royal Conservatory, Iberacademy, University of Antioquia, and the  University of South Dakota.  

Mr. Haskins is a Buffet-Crampon Artist playing exclusively on Buffet-Crampon instruments and a  D’Addario Woodwind Performing Artist.

Renata Cardoso was born in Coimbra, Portugal, and still returns there for family, beaches, food, and the land’s beauty.

Her earliest musical interest was in drums and percussion but shifted to trumpet in order to pursue studies at Coimbra’s Conservatory.  

Cardoso received her bachelor’s degree from the Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon, Portugal, where she studied with David Burt and Stephen Mason. She comes to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra after having completed a year of study with Barbara Butler and Charlie Geyer at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. Cardoso has twice won positions with the prestigious European Union Youth Orchestra. In 2021, she was a first-prize winner in the World Trumpet Society’s Daniel Patrylak Memorial Solo Competition. Cardoso is a past participant in the Gulbenkian Orchestra’s Summer Fellowship program and more recently won a prestigious Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship for international study. 

Cardoso is an avid chef and enjoys the preparation of both her native Portuguese cuisine and the new experiences of Tex-Mex, Italian, and Asian cooking. Hailing from Portugal, and after having spent a year in Houston, Cardoso is looking forward to new experiences of autumn, snow, and hot chocolate on cold winter afternoons.

Joseph Kelly joined the TSO in 2018 as Assistant Timpani and Section Percussion. He is also a coach of the percussion section for the TSYO.

Previously, Joe was a member of the percussion section at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida. Mr. Kelly has performed with the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Malaysia Philharmonic, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and Fort Worth Symphony.

In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Kelly was selected to be a member of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, where he performed orchestral and chamber works and was the soloist in Evan Antonellis’s Multiple Histories. In 2014, Joe joined the Lucerne Festival Academy and toured Europe under the direction of Matthias Pintscher, performing works by Lachenmann, Berio, and Pintscher. When he returned to Lucerne in 2015 as a member of the Academy, he was also invited to perform as an Alumni Guest at the Tanglewood Festival during its Festival of Contemporary Music. The following summer, Joseph was invited to be the solo percussionist of the Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble. This included being the resident ensemble for a composer workshop run by Wolfgang Rihm, as well as the set group for a large commissioning project from the festival. The Alumni Ensemble gave 21 world premières during the 2016 Lucerne Festival.

Mr. Kelly received his bachelor’s degree in percussion performance and master’s degree in orchestral performance from the Manhattan School of Music, where he was a recipient of the Elizabeth Beineke Scholarship and the Outreach Award at the 2015 Commencement. He was awarded the 2012 Kerope Zildjian Concert Percussion Scholarship. Mr. Kelly holds a professional diploma in orchestral studies from Roosevelt University and was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Former teachers include Christopher Lamb, Duncan Patton, She-e Wu, Erik Charlston, Vadim Karpinos, and Ed Harrison.