Background
She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.
She is the daughter of Lynn Stodola and Philippe Djokic.
She has been called instantly recognizable by her "arrestingly beautiful tone colour" (The Strad). 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 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 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, among others
They have performed together in Washington, District of Columbia at the Phillips Collection and Museum of Women in the Arts, in San Francisco, Cologne, Mexico City, Vancouver, at Chicago"s Dame Myra Hess series and New York"s Bargemusic, as well as many other cities throughout North America.
Denise and David also tour with Piano Plus, an organization which brings performances to rural communities in Canada. Denise"s love of chamber music brings her to many festivals each year, including the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Caramoor, Park City, Ravinia, San Miguel de Allende, and the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival.
She performs with New York"s Omega Ensemble and the Jupiter Chamber Players. Immediately following the release of her debut recording on the Sony Classical label, Denise was a featured performer at the 2002 Grammy Awards.
Her following recording, "Folklore", (Allegro/Endeavor) received a JUNO nomination as well as an ECMA, and hit the Billboard Chart"s top 15 Classical Civil Defense"son
"Folklore" was also featured on National Public Radio"s "All Things Considered". Denise has recently recorded the complete Britten Solo Suites for the ATMA label. Denise has been the subject of a BRAVO! television documentary entitled "Seven Days, Seven Nights", which followed her through a week-long recital tour.
She has also been a speaker at IdeaCity in Toronto, and was a keynote speaker at the Queen"s Women In Leadership Conference.
Denise 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".