Geneviève Guimond

A graduate of the Juilliard School, Montreal-born cellist Geneviève Guimond has performed as soloist with I Musici Montréal, Sinfonia de l’Ouest, and the FACE Symphony Orchestra. She won the grand prize at the Montreal Classical Music Festival (2000), first prize at the Canadian Music Competition (2005) and first prize at the National Music Festival (2007). At the age of 14, Genevieve was featured as lead actress in a film by Canadian director Alex Franchi called Troll Concerto, the sound track on which she played de Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnol. After graduating from Juilliard, Yo-Yo Ma appointed Genevieve as a Citizen Musician Fellow at the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In 2014-2015 she served as principal cellist and artist-in-residence of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. In June 2017, Kent Nagano appointed Genevieve to the cello section of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Her principal teachers have been Yuli Turovsky, Richard Aaron, and Hans Jensen.