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Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde

Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde, cello

Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde is a versatile musician whose repertoire ranges from the late 17th to the 20th century. Her primary focus is historically informed performance practice. She researches and uses techniques and instruments according to the time of the music she plays.

After studying modern cello with Denis Brott and Carole Sirois at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal, Octavie received the Prix avec Grande Distinction in 2011. Following her interest in performance practice, she went on to study baroque cello with Susie Napper in Montreal and with Viola de Hoog in Amsterdam, the city where she lives since 2014. In September 2016, Octavie won the second Prize at the Concours Corneille, International Competition for baroque soloists in Rouen, France. Octavie is a recipient of grants from the Canada Arts Council, the Banff Center for the Arts, the CALQ, the Montreal Conservatory, the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the University of Montreal. She is one of the six young professional musicians to be selected as part of the Handel House Talent scheme 2017-2018 in London.

Currently focusing on the historical performance of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music, she performs recitals regularly with fortepiano and harpsichord player Artem Belogurov. Together, they took part in the Festival Montreal Baroque, the International Young Artist Presentation in Antwerp, the Fortepiano Festival Zaandijk and the Utrecht Oude Muziek Fabulous Fringe series, among others. The pair also performed in Canada, the United States, Europe and Japan. Their recording of Beethoven’s complete works for fortepiano and cello on historical instruments will be issued later this year by the Italian label Gamma Musica.

An active member of the musical scene in Montreal, Octavie performed with many ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Caprice, les Rendez-vous baroque français, Les Lys Naissants and the chamber groups Epsilon, quintette à cordes, Ensemble Arkea, Ensemble Allogène, Ensemble Paramirabo and the Ensemble BOP. In Europe she performed with ensemble Cordavento and recorder player Erik Bosgraaf, the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht and she was a part of the 2017 Experience Scheme with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She has recorded for the label Brilliant Classics and is the co-director of Romberg Dagen, a festival taking place in May 2018 celebrating the composer and cellist Bernhard Romberg and the performance of 19th-century music.

Octavie has the pleasure to play a beautiful German cello from 1769 on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds of the Netherlands.

We are pleased to welcome Octavie
Dostaler-Lalonde to her first appearance in the Historical Piano Concert Series.

You may follow her work on her web site www.octaviedostalerlalonde .