Noémi Racine-Gaudreault » Biography

Montréal, Québec

• Performer (violin)

Noémi Racine-Gaudreault

Photo: Michael Slobodian

A native of Montréal, Noémi Racine Gaudreault studied violin at the Conservatoire de musi-que de Montréal, where she received a First Prize with Great Distinction, and at McGill University’s Faculty of Music, where she obtained her Artist Diploma. She has performed as a soloist with several orchestras, including the Orchestre du Festival Radio France in Montpellier (France), the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, the Ankara (Turkey) Symphony Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Montréal, Edmonton, Quebec City, Laval, Trois-Rivières, and Montérégie. She has also been awarded several prizes, including the Société Radio-Canada’s Galaxy Prize, the CBC/Debut series, and McGill University’s Lloyd-Carr Harris Award.

A soloist as well as a chamber musician, Noémi Racine Gaudreault has been invited as a guest performer at several international music festivals in France, Italy, Ireland, Argentina, Canada and the United States. She is very active in the contemporary music scene, and is concertmaster of the SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec) and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. She has performed the tango repertoire as violinist of the ensemble Quartango since 2002. She has recorded her second album with the bandoneon player Denis Plante.

Noémi is presently principal second violin of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Along with her career as a performing violinist, she also gives private lessons in the Alexander Technique in Montréal and Ottawa as well as in workshops at the Domaine Forget and at McGill University.