Carole Sirois
cello
An accomplished orchestral musician, Carole Sirois has performed with Canada’s most prestigious ensembles. From 1980 (when she released her first recording on the Decca London label) to 1998, she was a member of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra under conductor Charles Dutoit. With the MSO she toured to major centres around the world and made over 60 recordings. She subsequently joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Violons du Roy (Quebec City), and finally the National Arts Centre Orchestra directed by Pinchas Zukerman.
Maestro Zukerman quickly recognized Ms. Sirois’ teaching ability, and since 2003 she has been a member of the faculty of the NAC’s Summer Music Institute headed by Mr. Zukerman, which attracts talented young musicians from around the world. For several years she has taught cello at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal and at the Académie de musique et de danse du Domaine Forget in St-Irénée, Quebec. She has also worked extensively with the cello section of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada; at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School in Toronto, the Université de Sherbrooke, and Bishop’s University in Lennoxville, Quebec; and with numerous music schools in and around Montreal and Sherbrooke.
A talented communicator, she is heard regularly on CBC Radio (English and French) and is often invited to adjudicate music festivals for young artists, including the national finals of the 2002 Canadian Music Competition.
Carole Sirois is a founding member of the Montreal-based Quatuor Ondine. She performs regularly with various chamber music ensembles together with such renowned artists as Maurice Bourgues, Alexandre Tharaud, Pascal Rogé, Robert Silverman, John Perry and Joel Quarrington, and is a frequent guest at music festivals across Canada and in the United States, Ireland and France. Her recitals as a guest soloist with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra are broadcast regularly on Radio-Canada (La chaîne culturelle).
Carole Sirois studied under Thérèse Motard, Hélène Gagné, Walter Joachim, Guy Fallot and Philippe Muller.
November 2006
