Biography

Canadian conductor Eve Legault is originally from Gatineau, Québec. Last season, Eve became the first woman to conduct her hometown orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Gatineau. Other engagements included a concert as Guest Conductor with the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra.

Eve is an Associate Conductor in Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership program in Toronto. Through the program, she worked twice as an Assistant Conductor at the Manitoba Opera. She assisted at the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Opera Kelowna. She was a Guest Conductor and the first Assistant Conductor with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Recently, she participated in the RBC Canadian Conductor Showcase with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Eve is also the Principal Conductor of the Pembroke Symphony Orchestra in Ontario.

Between 2020 and 2022, she received 16 individual contracts at the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as a Guest Assistant Conductor to Alexander Shelley, John Storgårds, Dalia Stasevska and Xian Zhang.

Previously, she fulfilled several roles within the international opera community. Eve completed graduate studies in 3 disciplines: Conducting, Piano and Accompanying. She holds a DMA from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she was bestowed the Helen Cohn Award.

Eve was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. She also received four grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to participate in conducting masterclasses in Europe. During a masterclass in Finland with Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra, she was selected by the musicians as the “Orchestra’s Favorite Conductor.”