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- Yuli Turovsky Still in her early twenties, the Montreal-born cellist Geneviève Guimond is already well on her way to a solo career, having studied from the age of five and having performed in public since she was ten. Currently completing her studies at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, Geneviève has been involved with a wide variety of prestigious and sometimes fascinating events on three continents. Most recently, she has joined forces with a multi-cultural group of musicians and a singer to form the ensemble Zamin, and have performed extensively in the Chicago area and most recently produced a recording. Not so long ago, at the age of twelve she was sponsored by the government of Nunavut and Air Canada to visit Iquluit (formerly Frobisher Bay), a community of about 7,000 located on the south coast of Baffin Island. There she performed, visited schools and gave a master class. “This isolated community was so enthusiastic. The theater had oversold tickets, yet people cheerfully lined up against the back wall and filled the aisles.” A year later she performed the Saint-Saëns A-minor concerto for Mischa Maisky in a documentary shown on European television. The year after that saw her in Greece for two weeks for performances associated the Olympics. In 2006, at the age of sixteen, Geneviève was featured as principal actor and musician in a short film produced by Canadian director Alex Franchi called Troll Concerto, the sound track on which she plays de Falla’s Suite populaire espagnol. This film was first seen at the Toronto International Film Festival and went on to be screened at Cannes. It also won prizes at several international film festivals. Geneviève Guimond’s many prizes include grand prize at the Montreal Classical Music Festival (2000), first prize at the Canadian Music Competition in 2005 and first prize at the National Music Festival in 2007. In 2010, she won the highly prestigious Debut Atlantic auditions, which entails a two-week tour of Atlantic Canada in the fall of 2011. Geneviève Guimond has performed at most of the prestigious festivals in Quebec – Lanaudière, Orford, Mont Tremblant, Domaine Forget – in addition to the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, Meadowmount in New York State and Aspen, where she was awarded a two-year fellowship in 2010. Ms. Guimond has the highest praise for the teacher in Montreal with whom she studied for nearly eight years, Yuli Turovsky. Her current teacher at Juilliard, Richard Aaron, is an icon among cello students, and has been the perfect complement to Turovsky, instilling in her technical mastery of the instrument. (She plays an 1815 Giovanni Baptista Ceruti with a Lamy bow, both on loan from the Canimex Foundation.) Geneviève has also taken lessons with Laurence Lester, Lluis Claret, Vagram Saradjan, Andres Diaz and Hans Jorgen Jensen. Repertory includes the famous concertos by Boccherini, Schumann, Saint-Saëns and Dvořák but also a generous amount of twentieth-century music, particularly that of de Falla (an arrangement of the Ritual Fire Dance and the Suite populaire espagnole), Shostakovich and Arvo Pärt (Fratres).Although Genevieve is constantly discovering new works which she loves and which become new favourites, Shostakovich stands out as her favourite composer, but otherwise she favours individual compositions, not composers. In this bracket one can mention the Kodály sonata, the same composer’s Duo for Violin and Cello, and the Schumann concerto. In answer to the question “What would you have been if not a musician,” Geneviève answers without hesitation, an orthodontist. An unusual choice? Perhaps, but then this is an artist with an unusually keen intellect. Puzzles of all kinds – Sudoku, Rubik's Cubes, the New York Times crossword puzzles – occupy her mind when she’s not practicing. Robert Markow, 2011/ revised February 2012 |
Calendar
Apr 201220 Zamin at Northwestern University Chicago, Illinois
Jun 201218 Zamin at Via Downer Milwaukee, WI
Jul 20125 Montreal Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Wanda Kaluzny Haydn Concerto in D Major Montreal, QC
Aug 201222 Trio with violinist Rachel Koblyakov and pianist Michael Hey Milwaukee, WI
Sep 201211 Zamin at Fulcrum Point’s Peace Concert Chase Auditorium Chicago, IL Chicago, IL past events » News
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