B i o g r a p h y
Violinist Andrea Weber Steckly enjoys a varied performance and teaching career. She has a Bachelor of Music in Performance degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Music in Performance degree from Western University. She also studied briefly in Cincinnati and Vienna. As a performer, Andrea plays and sings with John B. Miller and Friends (since 2012), is second violinist in Leith String Quartet and was Concertmaster of the Kitchener-Waterloo Chamber Orchestra for 10 years. Andrea also likes to shred on her 6-string solid body flying “V” electric violin (built by Mark Wood) playing rock/celtic violin, keyboard, and sings in a band called 300 Degrees (since the early 1990’s!!). She continues to freelance in a variety of situations. She has played on occasion with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra and K-W Musical Productions pit orchestra and she sat as principal 2nd violin in the Stratford Symphony Orchestra for a few years.
She is also involved in diverse styles of church music. Notably, she was a member of the music worship team for Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay in 2009.
She resides in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband, where she has a private music studio.
John B. Miller & Friends:
This is a group made up of professional and semi-professional musicians from diverse performing backgrounds. Throughout the year, they perform together in various forms for weddings, corporate events, and private parties. In recent years, John B Miller & Friends has come together to produce and perform a concert series during Advent (leading up to Christmas), and one during Lent (leading up to Easter). The concerts have garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews. It has been, and continues to be their pleasure and honour to be welcomed into absolutely beautiful venues to play some very meaningful music.
To learn more , please visit the John B. Miller & Friends website.
The Leith Quartet is a professional string quartet dedicated to providing a wide variety of the highest quality music, along with the best service. They are available for weddings, receptions, parties, corporate events, and public performances. They play classical favourites as well as string quartet arrangements of pop tunes and other requests arranged by our own Bruce Skelton (first violinist and founder).
To learn more, please visit the Leith Quartet website.
Andrea is a member of The Doubtfires , a professional 4 piece band based in southern Ontario. We pride ourselves on offering a polished performance of quality music. Some covered artists are: James Taylor, Billy Joel, Elton John, Gordon Lightfoot, Eagles etc.
