Eve Legault

Canadian conductor Eve Legault is originally from Gatineau, Québec. Last fall, Eve became the first woman to conduct her hometown orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Gatineau. She is now the Principal Conductor of the Pembroke Symphony Orchestra in Ontario. Other engagements this season included a concert as Guest Conductor with the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra.

This summer, Eve was a Guest Conductor and the first Assistant Conductor with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. She conducted Charles Ives’ work “The Unanswered Question” with Naomi Woo, Music Director. She also assists Rosemary Thomson at Opera Kelowna in a double bill of Pagliacci and Gianni Schicchi. In the spring, she worked as an Assistant Conductor at the Manitoba Opera on their production of Carmen. Between 2020 and 2022, she received individual contracts at the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa as an 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. Last February, Eve took part in a masterclass in Finland with Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki
etropolitan Orchestra. She was selected by the musicians as the “Orchestra’s Favorite Conductor.”