Denise Djokic
musician

Denise Djokic is a cellist from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She grew up in a large musical family and first began to learn the cello with her uncle, Pierre Djokic.

A soloist with many orchestras, she has appeared with the Toronto Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, Windsor Symphony Orchestra and Mexico City's Orquesta Filharmonica UNAM, as well as the symphony orchestras of Vancouver, Omaha, Montreal, Winnipeg, Syracuse, Santa Cruz, Brazil's Amazonas Philharmonic, and many others across the continent. She has collaborated with conductors Andrew Litton, Geoffrey Moull, Grant Llewellyn, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Bernhard Gueller, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Avi Ostrovsky, and Kenneth Schermerhorn. As a recitalist, Djokic performs with her long-time musical partner, pianist David Jalbert.

Djokic was Djokic was a featured performer at the 2002 Grammy Awards and the subject of a BRAVO! TV documentary entitled Seven Days, Seven Nights, which followed her through a week-long recital tour. She has been a speaker at IdeaCity in Toronto, and was a keynote speaker at the Queen's Women In Leadership Conference. She was named by Maclean's magazine as one of the top "25 Canadians who are Changing our World", and by ELLE magazine as one of "Canada's Most Powerful Women".

For Peggy Baker Dance Projects: Denise played the cello part live for In the Fire of Conflict in its first iteration with Peggy dancing.

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