Angele dubeau biography examples

Canadian violinist (born 1962)

Musical artist

Angèle Dubeau, OC CQ (born 24 March 1962) is a retired Canadian classical violinist.

She has devoted a large part of her career to making classical music accessible to a wide audience and also frequently played works by contemporary composers.^[1] In October 2024, she announced that due to nerve damage in her right hand, she was no longer able to play the violin.

Early life and education

Dubeau was born in Saint-Norbert, Quebec, the seventh of eight children.^[2][3] She first studied the violin with Father Rolland Brunelle at the Joliette music camp, at Jean Cousineau's Les Petits Violons.^[1] She went on to graduate as a First-Prize winner from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.

She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Dorothy DeLay and later went to Romania to work with Ştefan Gheorghiu from 1981 until 1984.^{[citation needed}