Director - Biographical Details
Genevieve Boulanger
Musical Director - Anima Musical choral ensemble
Well known in Montreal as a choral conductor and teacher, Geneviève Boulanger has extensive experience with both adult and youth choirs. She holds a bachelor's degree in music education at the University of Quebec in Montreal, a bachelor's in performance (piano) from École de musique Vincent d'Indy and a bachelor's in performance (voice) from UQAM. In 2008, she completed a master's degree in choral conducting at Sherbrooke University with guest lecturer Nicole Paiement.
An elementary school music specialist with the CSDM for many years, Geneviève was responsible for the choral music component of the music option at Curé Antoine Labelle secondary school in the Laval school board from 1998 to 2009. She also teaches at the UQAM's École préparatoire de musique, where she has conducted the parent and children's choir for about 10 years. The Suzuki Institute regularly uses her services as a choral conductor for its intensive summer session. She also works with groups of children and teens at the CAMMAC music camp during its choral singing week.
Conductor of the vocal ensemble Musica Viva from 1979 to 1995, she took her choristers to England to the Warwick International Choral Festival in 1989; this choir also represented French Canada at the 1993 World Choral Music Symposium in Vancouver.
She is keenly interested in professional development and recently attended the ACCC Convention and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute with Ivars Taurins in Toronto.
Since fall 2000, Geneviève has been the artistic director and conductor of Anima Musica. Under her baton, the choir has pursued its vocal and musical development through a variety of choral experiences in the sacred and the secular repertoire, a cappella works and works with orchestral accompaniment.