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Elaine Mossop Sargous

Elaine (b Mossop) Sargous. Violinist, teacher. Sargous was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in the 1960s, and from 1969 to 1982 of the Chamber Players of Toronto.

Sargous, Elaine

Elaine (b Mossop) Sargous. Violinist, teacher. Sargous was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in the 1960s, and from 1969 to 1982 of the Chamber Players of Toronto. She was a string specialist with the Scarborough Board of Education, and has appeared with the Toronto Symphony (TS) as well as on CBC and National Public Radio in the US. In 1991 she co-founded the Ann Arbor School for the Performing Arts in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she continued to teach violin and chamber music studies and perform with local orchestras. Her husband, Harry Sargous (principal oboe 1971-82 with the TS), was head of oboe studies at the University of Michigan.

See also Cyril Mossop (her father) and Glenn Mossop (her brother).