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Artists
Violinist Marjolaine Lambert, a native of Joliette but self-proclaimed Montrealer, started her music studies at the age of four years old, following the footsteps of her brother, violist Frédéric Lambert. At a young age, her natural talent led her to join the studio of Johanne Arel and Raymond Dessaints at Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, which she graduated from in 2005. With a passion for learning and broadening her general knowledge, she went to McGill University in the class of Denise Lupien. Studying the rudiments of mandarin as a minor, it led her to tour through China as Principal Second violin of the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne.
Upon completion of her Bachelor’s degree with honour, she went to Yale University for her Master’s degree to study with Ani Kavafian. There, she thrived as the concertmaster of the Yale Philharmonia and winner of the Woolsey Concerto Competition. Establishing strong collaborations with contemporary composers, maestro Julian Wachner and herself created Novus NYC, an orchestra devoted to new music, of which she acted as concertmaster. She had the opportunity to premiere works by David Lang, Bernard Rands and Christopher Theofanidis.
Her passion for new music led her to pursue a Doctorate of Music at McGill University, with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, which focused on the hyper-violin created by Pierre Boulez in his Anthèmes. Her work with live electronics has brought her interesting and different kinds of projects, including the world premiere of Les Gestes, a creation of dance choreographer Isabelle Van Grimde.
Marjolaine has performed as a soloist under many conductors such as Yuli Turovsky, Peter Oundjian, and Shinik Hahm. As a chambrist, she's been invited to perform often with Les Violons du Roy, I Musici, and Arcos Chamber Orchestra.
In her rare spare time, Marjolaine enjoys watching an impressive amount of TV shows, discovering the depths of performance practice on her Baroque violin, or rocking out stadiums with Céline Dion.
She is thrilled to be a member of the National Arts Centre Orchestra, as of September 2016.
Emre Engin, born in Turkey, finished his bachelor of music studies with a “First Class” diploma at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Prof. Itzhak Rashkovsky and was kindly supported by the Yehudi Menuhin Award, Talent Unlimited Foundation, and the CEV Outstanding Talents Project. Emre completed his master’s degree at Manhattan School of Music in world-renowned Maestro Pinchas Zukerman's violin class, where he was on a full scholarship and earned many major solo and chamber awards.
Emre is a proud holder of many awards and prizes such as the 'Yehudi Menuhin Award' given by Royal College of Music, London, "Young Soloist of the Year" award by the Istanbul International Music Festival, Grand Prix at the International Presidential Violin Competition, Ankara. the N. Eczacibasi Classical Music Career Grant and 'Best Emerging Artist Award' by Donizetti Classical Music Awards.
Young violinist is continuing his doctoral studies at the Stony Brook University School of Music, and pursuing his solo and chamber music career both in the United States and Europe.
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Margaret Eklund Klucznik has been playing the viola since she was seven years old.
She holds a BM ('18) in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory, where she now continues her studies with Peter Slowik in pursuit of an Artist Diploma ('20).
As a high school student, she was assistant principal viola of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in 2013 and again in 2014.
In her spare time, Margaret is an avid reader, armchair film critic, and would-be figure skating judge.
She was a 2018-2019 Institute of Orchestral Studies Apprentice.
Since starting the Violin at the age of 5, Music has always been a large part of Ben’s life. While in high school he started playing the electric bass, making the switch to the upright in his last year when the high school purchased one for the jazz band. Once that switch had been made he began pursuing a career in orchestral double bass playing. After taking some lessons in the Kingston area, he auditioned at the University of Ottawa to study with David Currie. In his second year of studies he began to play with the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra. In between his years of study, Ben has been fortunate to play with the Orchestre de la Francophonie, and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada for two consecutive summers.
Since graduating in 2017 he has had many freelancing opportunities, including performing in the pit band for a two-week run of the travelling production of “The Phantom of the Opera,” and also being featured as a guest artist in the NAC’s Wolfgang Sessions series. When not playing the bass, Ben enjoys various other hobbies including climbing, woodworking, and spending as much time as possible in the outdoors.
Ah Young Kim has been actively participating and performing in number of chamber groups including Bloor String Quartet and Verbier Octet. She is also very contributing member of many orchestral engagements and has received highest praise from seasoned orchestral professionals. She is an alumnus of Verbier Orchestra 2018 and 2019.
Ah Young made her solo debut performing with Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2009. Her recent work as a soloist includes performing with Philharmonic Orchestra of the Universaid de Alicante from Spain with conductor Uri Segal. She has also participated and performed in various festivals such as the Euro Music Festival in Austria (2009) and Germany (2010), Music Fest Perugia in Italy (2013, 2014), and the Verbier festival (2018, 2019).
Ah Young Kim was born in 1995 in Daejeon, S.Korea. While she studied in Korea for eight years with Paul Kim, concertmaster of Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, and his wife Min Jeong Kim, concertmaster of Andi Musik Orchestra, she has won many national competitions in Korea including one held by the Music Association of Korea, Dong-A string competition, and the Daejeon Catholic Music Competition.
She received her bachelor degree from the Glenn Gould School, and she is currently in first of the Artist Diploma Program at the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, studying with Atis Bankas.
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Agnès Langlois started her musical studies with Kristen Madsen at the age of four. At nine years old, she enters the Montreal Conservatory of Music and begins her formation with Carole Sirois. Since 2006, she takes part in numerous national musical competitions such as the Canada Music Competition (National Final from 2008 to 2014 and various prizes). In 2014, Agnès was a semi-finalist of the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra Competition. She did many musical summer academies, such as Orford International Academy and the Young Artist Program of the NAC. Agnès has received several positive comments from judges and teachers.
Agnès plays on a bow provided to her by Canimex Inc. from Drummondville, Quebec, Canada.