Shelley Solmes is a

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journalist and radio broadcaster. Solmes was born in Toronto. She studied journalism at

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and the

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and worked as a reporter and feature writer for the ''

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'' before joining

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, where she was associated with arts and

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programming such as '' OnStage'', '' Take Five'' and '' Here's to You''."Save CBC Radio 2 Battle Heats Up". ''La Scena Musicale'', March 30, 2008. ''Take Five'' won a CBC Award for Programming Excellence in 2004. Solmes is also an amateur classical pianist, who has studied under Anton Kuerti, Nadia Strycek and Katharina Wolpe.

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