MARIE NADEAU-TREMBLAY, Baroque violin (biography)

Since graduating and receiving a Master’s Degree in Early Music Performance, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay has established herself on the Canadian scene as an up-and-coming young baroque violinist. In 2019, In 2019, she is a four-time honouree at the Mathieu Duguay International Early Music Competition, winning first prize among other honours. Named “CBC’s Classical Revelation 2021–2022” and winner of the 2021 Opus prize for “Discovery of the year,” Marie is also awarded the Choquette Symcox prize by the JM Canada Foundation the same year. Her album La Peste (2020) was named one of the 20 best classical albums of 2020 by the CBC and was nominated for a Juno Award. Her first solo album, Préludes et Solitudes, was released in October 2021 and won in 2023 the Opus of the best album of the year in its category.

Marie plays on an original 1750s Thomas Perry instrument as well as an Amati model violin made by Timothy Johnson and generously lent to her by Mr. Jacques Marchand.
In addition to music, Marie loves to draw, and is studying Mandarin and Japanese.