Emmanuelle Lambert-Lemoine Music Director
Recognized for her innate musicality, compelling presence and technical precision, conductor Emmanuelle Lambert-Lemoine’s ability to forge an immediate and captivating connection with musicians has led her to become a very appreciated conductor. Her current positions include the Ottawa Youth Symphony Orchestra, l’Orchestre du Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau, the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra and Divertimento Orchestra, which leads her to conduct a dozen different programs per season. During the second half of the 2023-2024 season, she worked as assistant conductor to Jacques Lacombe with the Orchestre classique de Montréal.
Lambert-Lemoine holds a Master’s degree from the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, in New York City, where she focused her thesis on El Sistema de Orquestas in Venezuela. She also graduated with a Master’s in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Ottawa and is currently finishing her Doctorate in Viola Performance at the Université de Montréal. She attended the Monteux School and Music Festival in Maine as a conductor and violist for two summers, and she participated as a student in a conducting workshop at the Panula Academy in Helsinki. Her notable teachers include: in conducting, Jorma Panula, Ludovic Morlot, Michael Jimbo, Tiffany Lu, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Dinuk Wijeratne; in viola, Jutta Puchhammer-Sédillot, Guillaume Sutre, Juan Miguel Hernandez, David Marks; in piano, Stéphane Lemelin, Jean-Paul Sévilla.
Lambert-Lemoine also holds a Bachelor of Education and has taught highschool to bring music to the public classroom. She is also the co-founder of ASTAWT, an organization that sponsors refugees to Ottawa.