Paul Marleyn

Paul Marleyn tours regularly in North America, Europe and Asia. As a frequent participant in summer festivals including the International Musicians Seminar, Busan, Festival of the Sound, Domaine Forget, Casalmaggiore, Leicester and Ottawa international festivals, he collaborates with artists such as Boris Berman, Miriam Fried, James Somerville, Paul Neubauer, Marc-André Hamelin, Steven Dann, Colin Carr, […]

Stéphane Tétreault

Stéphane Tétreault, violoncelle

In addition to numerous awards and honours, Stéphane Tétreault received the Canada Council for the Arts’s prestigious 2019 Virginia Parker Prize. He is also the laureate of the 2023 Prix Opus Album of the Year (Transfiguration with Valérie Milot) and the 2022 Prix Opus Performer of the Year, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la […]

Sébastien Lépine

Highly regarded for the reputation of excellence that he has forged over the last twenty years, Sébastien Lépine stands out as one of Canada’s finest cellists. Whether performing as a soloist or a chamber musician, conducting or composing, this refined musician exercises his art with true passion in each note and gives classical music renewed […]

Camille Roy-Paquette

Camille Roy-Paquette

Having shown an interest and talent for music at a very early age, cellist Camille Paquette-Roy was admitted to the Music Conservatory of Trois-Rivières in 1999, where she studied under Jean-Christophe Guelpa for ten years. In 2009, she graduated from the Conservatory of Trois-Rivières with a Diplôme d’Études Supérieures. In the same year, she began […]

Pierre-Alain Bouvrette

A graduate from the Montreal Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Pamela Frame where he was teacher assistant, Pierre-Alain Bouvrette was also a prize winner at the 2003 International Chamber Music Competition of Val Tidone in Italy. A guest participant at the Chamber Music Festival of Costa Rica on two […]

Elinor Frey

Fascinated by the cello’s origins and the creative process of new music, Elinor Frey plays both period and modern instruments. Her debut album, Dialoghi, is titled for the solo piece written for her by Steven Stucky. Her recent release on the Belgian label Passacaille, Berlin Sonatas with Lorenzo Ghielmi on fortepiano, was nominated for a […]

Tanya Prochazka

Professor of cello, chamber music, conductor of the Academy Strings and University Symphony Orchestras and Head of the String Department at the University of Alberta, Canada, cellist Tanya Prochazka (nee Hunt) is a soloist, chamber musician, conductor, freelance player and teacher. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Ms Prochazka began her cello studies with Marianne Maxwell and […]

Thérèse Ryan

Born in Montreal, Thérèse Ryan studied cello at McGill University with Walter Joachim, and at the Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal with Michael Kilburn. She won several prizes at the Conservatoire. She is a cellist with several orchestras in the Montreal région, notably the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal and the Ensemble Amati. In […]

Yegor Dyachkov

Yegor Dyachkov

Since his selection as Artist of the Year by the CBC in 2000—the same year he made his Lincoln Center debut in New York—cellist Yegor Dyachkov has toured throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has appeared with major orchestras in Antwerp, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver and performed at international festivals […]