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Tawnya Popoff is principal violist with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and also a dedicated performer of chamber music with like-minded colleagues. She has commissioned music by composers living today, and recorded for a number of record labels through the years. She received two consecutive Canada Council individual artist grants and has served on the faculties of the music school in the US, and in Spain. Aside from her musical pursuits, Tawnya has a cycling company that organizes cycling tours for adventuresome cyclists. The viola she plays has a story—ask her about it.