Nicole Trotier

A Quebec native, Nicole Trotier studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Québec under Jean Angers and Jean-Louis Rousseau.  A 1984 graduate, she received awards in violin and chamber music.  From 1979 to 1981 she worked as a summer intern at the Meadowmount School of Music with Sally Thomas, Joseph Gingold, and Earl Carlyss as her mentors.  The same year, she was a finalist in the Young Virtuosos Competition televised by Radio-Canada.

In 1984, she founded with several other young professional musicians the group Les Violons du Roy, in which she was the principal violinist.  Since then, she has participated in numerous activities with the ensemble and regularly performs as a soloist.  She is also a founding member of the Quatuor Québec (1987) and of La Bande Baroque (1990).

One can also regularly hear Nicole Trotier on the waves of Radio-Canada as soloist, chamberist, or as a member of any of the groups to which she belongs.