Born: March 24, 1962; Saint-Norbert, Quebec, Canada
Angèle DuBeau is among the most prominent Canadian violinists of her generation. Arguably she is the most popular of them: for three seasons she appeared as host of a weekly broadcast on Canadian television called Faites vos gammes (Do your scales), devoted to introducing new musical talent, and has had several best-selling recordings, becoming one of the relatively few classical artists from any country with a recording that achieved gold statusRead more (50,000 titles sold within a year). Her repertory is broad, covering most periods and nationalities, taking in Telemann, Gluck, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Fauré, Debussy, Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, and many others. Dubeau is also the founder of an all-female string ensemble (with piano) called La Pietà. Counting the more than half-dozen CDs with La Pietà, DuBeau has made over 20 recordings, all issued on the Canadian label Analekta, whose president, Mario Labbé, she is married to.
Angèle DuBeau was born in Saint-Norbert, Quebec. She was an extremely precocious child, beginning lessons on violin at four with Rolland Brunelle, then moving on at nine to advanced studies with Raymond Dessaints at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal, where she remained for six years. By age 16 she had received two first prizes there, one each for solo and chamber music performance. DuBeau also studied with Dorothy Delay at Juilliard, and, from 1981-1984 with Stefan Gheorghiu in Bucharest, Romania.
During her later student years, DuBeau won several further prestigious awards, including the 1979 CBC Talent Festival, the 1982 Sylva Gelber Prize, and the 1983 Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Even before winning the Varga Competition, DuBeau had established a successful international career. Throughout the 1980s she regularly toured Europe, the Far East, Japan, and North America. Among the more noteworthy of her tours were the 1987 concerts in China (Beijing, Shanghai) and Thailand (Bangkok), with pianist Andrew Tunis.
From 1994-1997 DuBeau became a popular Canadian television personality when she hosted the aforementioned Faites vos gammes program. In 1997 she founded La Pietà and the ensemble soon began international tours, including to China and Japan. La Pietà, named after Vivaldi's orchestra drawn entirely from members of a female orphanage, has regularly performed many concerts for charity. In 2004 the Canadian government awarded DuBeau the prestigious rank of Knight for the National Order of Quebec. Among DuBeau's later recordings is her 2006 CD of Telemann's Canonic Sonatas. Read less
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 96102
Release Date: 01/31/2012
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Niccolò Paganini,
Felix Mendelssohn,
Ernesto Lecuona,
Franz Joseph Haydn
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau,
Alvaro Pierri,
Bernadene Blaha,
Elizabeth Dolin
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Conductor:
Kent Nagano,
Lorraine Desmarais,
Joseph Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Gryphon Trio,
Montreal Jazz Club,
Duo Gaulin-Riverin
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Label: Analekta
Catalog: 96079
Release Date: 01/31/2012
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,
Federico Mompou,
Jules Massenet
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Performer:
Aaron Brock,
Jane Booth,
Louise Bessette,
James Ehnes
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Conductor:
Jeanne Lamon,
Yoav Talmi,
Gilbert Patenaude,
George Hanson
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Pietà (Orchestra),
Ensemble Caprice
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 96046
Release Date: 01/31/2012
Number of Discs: 3
Composer:
Felix Mendelssohn,
Niccolò Paganini,
Jules Massenet,
Johann Sebastian Bach
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau,
James Ehnes,
Yekwon Sunwoo,
Benjamin Beilman
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Conductor:
Joseph Rescigno,
Yoav Talmi,
Ivan Marinov,
Kent Nagano
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Pietà (Orchestra),
I Musici de Montreal
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 28730
Release Date: 11/09/2010
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Armas Maasalo,
Franz Xaver Gruber,
Albert Périlhou,
Antonio Vivaldi
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau
Conductor:
Angèle Dubeau
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Pieta
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Label: Analekta
Catalog: 28729
Release Date: 10/27/2009
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Jean Sibelius,
Bohuslav Martinu,
Franz Schubert,
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau,
Marc-André Hamelin,
Alain Marion,
Anton Kuerti
Conductor:
Ivan Marinov,
Igor Blazhkov,
Joseph Rescigno
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Kiev Symphony Orchestra,
La Pieta
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Label: Analekta
Catalog: 28726
Release Date: 11/11/2008
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
François Dompierre,
George David Weiss,
Joe Hisaishi,
Ennio Morricone
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau,
Louise-Andrée Baril
Conductor:
Angèle Dubeau
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Pieta
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 61003
Release Date: 11/11/2008
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Traditional,
Franz Xaver Gruber,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
George David Weiss
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau
Conductor:
Angèle Dubeau,
Gilbert Patenaude
Orchestra/Ensemble:
La Pieta,
Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 28704
Release Date: 09/20/2007
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
Felix Borowski,
Charles Gounod,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
César Franck
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau,
Rachel Laurin
Conductor:
Gilbert Patenaude
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal
Label: Analekta
Catalog: 299705
Release Date: 05/15/2007
Number of Discs: 6
Composer:
Franz Schubert,
Bohuslav Martinu,
Jean Sibelius,
André Mathieu
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Performer:
Anton Kuerti,
Angèle Dubeau,
Marc-André Hamelin,
Alain Marion
...
Conductor:
Ivan Marinov,
Yoav Talmi,
Jeanne Lamon,
Angèle Dubeau
...
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Quebec Symphony Orchestra,
Tafelmusik
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Label: Analekta
Catalog: 28711
Release Date: 11/22/2006
Number of Discs: 1
Composer:
George Gershwin,
Stephen Foster,
François Dompierre,
Fritz Kreisler
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Performer:
Angèle Dubeau
Conductor:
Raymond Dessaints
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Amati Ensemble