Royal Conservatory Probes Berlin Abuse Claims

0:00The Royal Conservatory of Music just announced an independent third party investigation into sexual misconduct claims against their legendary piano. Teacher, Boris Berlin, who passed away in 2001 after teaching there for over 70 years. Earlier this week, a story highlighted allegations from Margaret Hallowell, who studied with Berlin for two years in the 1970s and told. Her family about verbal and sexual abuse, though she never reported it fearing his influence. This follows Luciana Luckman's public account from February about abuse as a teenage student in 1985, where she says her complaint led nowhere. Family members like Hallowell's daughter Shannon are speaking out, proud to push for change, while a petition loopman started on April 20th has. Gained over 3,200 signatures from folks like singer John Arden, prominent pianist Jonathan Biss, even quit his teaching gig there, and protests over the slow response. Now the Conservatory is teaming up with the University of Toronto to dig into old records from before 1991, and they've approved this.

1:04Full external probe unanimously. They're also hiring a consultant to check student safety and teaching policies. Leaders say they're hard-broken and committed to real fixes for survivors, even as some like loopman question, if it's genuine action or just damage. Control. We'll keep watching how this unfolds for accountability and music education. That's the story for today. Canada News Today, Driven by AI.