Andrew Dawes CM (February 7, 1940 – October 30, 2022) was a Canadian violinist.
[5] His violin teachers included Clayton Hare[6] and Murray Adaskin, and he studied with Lorand Fenyves at the Conservatoire de Genève.
[7][8] Dawes was first violinist of the Toronto-based Orford String Quartet throughout its existence from 1965 to 1991.
He was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Catherine Thornhill Steele Chair in Music at McGill University.
In 2013, the National Film Board of Canada produced a brief tribute to Dawes entitled Dynamic Range, written and directed by Lisa Jackson.