Eva Lesage

Born into a family of musicians, Eva is the recipient of several first and grand prizes in North American competitions. These distinctions have enabled her to perform as a soloist with various orchestras throughout North American, including in six concerts with the Orchestre Métropolitain, which received an Opus Award in 2019 for Production of the Year—Young Audiences. She was recently invited to give a recital at the Musikverein in Vienna, in connection with its 2024 season’s Start Up! for young musicians. Eva has benefited from expert guidance in masterclasses with Julia Fischer, Ana Chumachenco, Pavel Vernikov, Andrew Wan, Svetlana Makarova, Boris Kuschnir and Sergiu Schwartz, among others. She also won a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein, to take part in its several weeks of intensive musical training and activities, in addition to playing on European tours with the Academy’s resident ensemble, the Ensemble Esperanza.

Also an active chamber player, Eva is a founding member of the Quatuor Vatra, a Montréal-based ensemble since 2020, with which she has garnered several awards and distinctions, including in the Canimex Canadian Music Competition, the Concours Classival and the Concours de musique de Sherbrooke. Eva currently studies under the tutelage of Professor Pavel Vernikov at the Vienna Conservatory.

Eva plays a violin built by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1873) with a bow crafted by Victor Fétique (ca. 1920) generously loaned by the company Canimex Inc. of Drummondville (Québec), Canada.