Ofra Harnoy

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Ofra Harnoy is an Israeli-born Canadian cellist based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. The current Governor General of Canada honours record identifies St. John's as her location and recognizes her as a Member of the Order of Canada. Her artist-controlled biography documents immigration to Canada at age six, study with William Pleeth, Vladimir Orloff, Mstislav Rostropovich, Janos Starker, Pierre Fournier, and Jacqueline du Pré, and an international career on five continents. The current site also presents her continuing collaboration with musician and producer Mike Herriott, including On the Rock in 2020 and Portrait in 2023. A 2024 Stratford Summer Music program and festival recap document continued live performance. Together these current official and professional sources confirm St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada as the public professional base without exposing a private address. Harnoy made her professional orchestral solo debut at age ten and developed a recorded repertoire spanning cello concertos, chamber music, baroque works, opera arrangements, popular song, and collaborations across classical and contemporary music. She became the first Canadian classical instrumental soloist since Glenn Gould to hold an exclusive worldwide contract with a major record label when she joined RCA Victor Red Seal in 1987. Her recent recording period began with Back to Bach in 2019, followed by On the Rock, a cello-led interpretation of music from Newfoundland and Labrador, then Portrait and Elgar & Lalo Cello Concertos in 2023. The exact Spotify artist 7jkPTBaoQXW1CPFRv4Hih8 contains fifteen principal album and single containers in the Canadian market. Spotify classifies eleven as albums and four as singles, dated from 1985 through September 15, 2023. Provider single classification includes a five-track collaboration. Representative releases include Elgar & Lalo Cello Concertos, Portrait, On the Rock, Back to Bach, Ofra Harnoy Plays Vivaldi, and Imagine. Apple Music independently connects the same exact artist identity, current recordings, core catalog, and classical history. Current collaborators include Mike Herriott, the H&H Studio Orchestra, and Jacob Slous. Current and historical label relationships include Sony Masterworks, H & H Records, Analekta, RCA Red Seal, and RCA Victor. Harnoy's artist-controlled biography records five JUNO Awards and the Grand Prix du Disque. The official JUNO archive identifies her award history across classical album and instrumental artist categories. The Governor General record confirms her 1995 appointment and 1996 investiture as a Member of the Order of Canada for her recordings, touring, and cultural contribution. MusicList routes professional inquiries only through the artist-controlled contact page and does not reproduce direct contact details. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback. The exact English and French payload was reviewed for collision-free identity, current St. John's and Newfoundland and Labrador geography, active status, career history, provider catalog arithmetic, repertoire, collaborators, honours, label relationships, safe contact routing, provider media, and meaning parity.