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Maïthéna Girault

Maïthéna Girault is a first prize winner of the Canadian Music Competition and winner of the 2017 Golden Violin Award, Canada’s largest collegiate music prize. An up-and-coming Canadian artist, she was a recipient of the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award in 2018 and 2019 and the third prize and Québécor Prize winner at the 2019 Prix d’Europe competition. Ms. Girault has also appeared on CBC Music’s 2017 lists of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30 and Montreal’s 10 emerging acts to watch. In 2015, she made her debut in Carnegie Hall as both a soloist and a chamber musician. 

Ms. Girault has concertized as a soloist with orchestras in Quebec and France more than a dozen times and has appeared as concertmaster with orchestras in France, Germany, Italy, the United States and Montreal’s Maison symphonique. A passionate chamber musician, she was a founding member of the Milton String Quartet, winner of the 2017 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Grand Prize. Her chamber music appearances have taken her to Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the United States at the sides of artists such as Jinjoo Cho, Laurence Kayaleh, Paul Marleyn, Douglas McNabney, and Axel Strauss. 

Ms. Girault performs on the 1858 violin “Ex-Comte Koucheliov” by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume and a bow by Sartory, both generously loaned to her by Canimex.