Historical
Piano Concerts Series
About
the Musicians
Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde
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.