Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 21, 1992
• Invested on: April 21, 1993

An ardent promoter of Canadian arts, this world-celebrated bassoonist founded Overture Concerts in the 1950s to bring classical music to new audiences in Western Canada. Since that time, he has introduced Canadians in more remote regions to noted foreign performers, as well as to hundreds of our own gifted artists from across the nation.