Known for her sensitivity and enthusiasm, Louise Pelletier has led a career as a pianist, accompanist and vocal coach.

For over 20 years, Pelletier has held the position of accompanist/vocal coach at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and serves as a rehearsal pianist for Opera McGill. She is an official pianist for the Canadian Music Competition as well as the International Stepping Stone Competition and is musical director of Jeunesses Musicales Canada’s opera program.

She collaborates with many of the major orchestras across Quebec, occupying the positions of répétiteur, pianist and harpsichordist for choral, symphonic and operatic works. Her close relationship with Maestro Nézet-Séguin was one that first developed over a period of six years at the Chœur de Laval, and they then went on together to Orchestre Métropolitain, where Pelletier continues to serve as the pianist for the choir.

At the Académie internationale du Domaine Forget, she coached singers and played classes for José Van Dam, Sophie Koch, Jean-François Lapointe and Ariane Girard. She played a major role at the Canadian Vocal Arts Institute (CVAI) in Montréal, serving as coach and accompanist, alongside Joan Dornemann and many notable teachers from New York’s Metropolitan Opera and has also been in charge of the scenes program at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Summer Opera Studio.

Louise Pelletier holds a double bachelor’s degree in teaching and performance as well as a Master of Music in piano performance, pursued her studies in New York and participated in apprenticeships in Canada, the United States and Europe.