About this Artist

Pascale Giguère has been a member of Les Violons du Roy since 1995. She was co-concertmaster from 2000 to 2013 and has been concertmaster since 2014. She has performed with the ensemble in some of the world’s leading venues, including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and Carnegie Hall in New York, and at leading festivals in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Pascale Giguère has also taken part in recordings with Les Violons for the Dorian, Atma, and Virgin Classics labels.

In recent years, Pascale Giguère has ap- peared as a soloist with Les Violons du Roy, in particular in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons; the latter work was recorded by Atma and received a JUNO award. She has also performed with the Orchestre Métropolit- ain du Grand Montréal, Orchestre sympho- nique de Laval, and Orchestre des Grands Ballets Canadiens, with which she played Stravinsky’s Concerto in D, an experience she repeated in December 2006 with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, con- ducted by Yoav Talmi. In recent seasons, she has appeared as a guest soloist at the Domaine Forget international festival and the Parry Sound Festival. 

Pascale Giguère studied at the Montréal Conservatory with Raymond Dessaints, ob- taining Premier Prix diplomas in violin and chamber music. She has also won several important prizes, including Grand Prize at the CIBC National Music Festival, First Prize at the Orchestre symphonique de Québec competition, and the prestigious Prix d’Europe award in 1993, which allowed her to continue her studies at Boston Univer- sity with Roman Totenberg, Peter Zazovski, and the Muir Quartet. 

Pascale was awarded the Canada Council Instrument Bank’s 1700 Bell Giovanni Tononi violin to play from 2006 to 2008. Her current instrument is a 1745 Milanese violin by Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, on generous loan from its owner, Marthe Bourgeois.