Angela Cavadas was the recipient of numerous awards early in her musical life, most notably winning First Prize in the CBC Young Artists Competition at the age of nineteen.

Renowned violinists Steven Staryk and Ruggiero Ricci were major mentors in her training and over the course of her distinguished and varied career, she has collaborated with many outstanding instrumentalists and conductors and has participated in hundreds of concerts, of which a number were broadcast nationally.

She has enjoyed the diversity of performing as a soloist and in chamber music concerts, as well as playing for opera, ballet, musical theatre, film recording, and folk dance troupes. Angela is Associate Concertmaster of the Vancouver Opera Orchestra and was Acting Concertmaster for their 2017-18 music season.

She has also played for West Coast Chamber Music since its inception and has worked with the Vancouver Symphony, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Vancouver Island Symphony, Lions Gate Sinfonia, Chilliwack Symphony, and the now-defunct CBC Radio Orchestra. Angela was the violin instructor for the University Transfer Program at Douglas College for forty years and currently teaches violin and piano privately and for the Arts Conservatory in Richmond, BC.