Noémi Racine Gaudreault

Noémi started to explore the Alexander Technique in 2000 with David Nesmith in Columbus, Ohio and with Tommy Thompson in Boston. After a year of private lessons and coachings with many different teachers, Noémi started her professionnal training with Micheline Charron. Noémi graduated from the Montréal School of the Alexander Technique in 2004 after an intensive three-year training programm. She is a certified member of the Canadian Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (CANSTAT) and the National Association of Naturopaths.

She has been teaching at the Domaine Forget music Academy since 2004 and also at McGill University. She gives private lessons in Gatineau. She took part of the 27th Annual Workshop of the Alexander Technique in Malibu (California) in December 2006. She keeps training with well-known teachers in the field of psycho-physical re-education such as: Meade Andrews (Florida), Lyn Charlsen, Michael D.Frederick (Los Angeles), John Nicchols, Nanette Walsh, Barbara Kent (New-York) and Dominique Jacques (San Diego).
Noémi is a really active professionnal musician. She has been specializing for many years now in the interpretation of the contemporary repertoire. She studied violin at the Montreal Music Conservatory (First prize with honours, 1999) and at McGill University (Artist Diploma, 2003).
Noémi performed as a soloist with many Symphony Orchestra: The Montréal Symphony Orchestra (2007 and 2003), the Thirteen Strings in Ottawa (20-07), the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (2006 and 2003), the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon (2005), the Quebec Symphony Orchestra (2005), the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (2005), the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey (2005), the Montérégie Youth Symphony Orchestra (2002), the OSCMM (1998), the OSTR (1997) and the OSMONT (1995). She won many prizes including the award Galaxie from Radio-Canada (2002) and the CBC/Début competition (1999). In july 2005, she played the concerto for violin and orchestra from Walter Boudreau at the Radio-France Festival in Montpellier. She was playing that same concerto with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra on march 8th, 2007 at the Benefit event of the International New Music Festival of Montreal. She will be performing The Darkly Splendid Earth: The Lonely Traveller from R. Murray Schafer as a soloist with the Metropolitain Orchestra in the fall of 2008.
Noémi has a varied musical background. She was invited to numerous music festivals in France, Italy, Ireland, Argentina, Canada and United-States : The Montréal New Music Festival (2007), The Ottawa Chamber Music Festival (2007), Radio-France Music Festival (Montpellier, 2005), the Cork Music Festival in (Ireland, 2004), the Milano Oltre Festival in (Italy, 2003), the Banff Center for the Arts (2003), the Montreal Chamber Music Festival (2002), the Lanaudiere International Music Festival (2002), the Camerata-Lysy Chamber Music Festival (Argentina, 2001), the Academy of the West Santa Barbara (United-States, 1999), the New York String Orchestra and Chamber Music Festival (Carnegie Hall, 1998), the OFQJ Chamber Music Tour (France,1996).

She played three years with the Chamber Music Orchestra Angèle Dubeau et La Piétà and recorded many albums with them. She was the violonist of the group Quartango from 2002 to 2007. It is possible to hear Noemi on the album "Performance" of that same group. She recorded two albums of original music with bandoneon player Denis Plante: "Cantos de Bandoneon" and "Cafe Tango". She is also collaborating with percussionnist Catherine Meunier. Noémi is the solo-violin of the SMCQ. She is also leader of second violin with the "Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal" with maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Noémi occasionnally plays with the National Art Center Orchestra in Ottawa.