Alexandre Da Costa is a Canadian concert violinist and conductor from

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. He is the artistic director of the ''Orchestre philharmonique du Québec''.

Education

Da Costa has a bachelor's degree in performance (piano) from the Faculty of Music of the

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...

and master's degree in violin. He also studied violin at the

Reina Sofía School of Music The Reina Sofía School of Music (Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Spanish) is a private music school founded in Madrid, Spain, in 1991 by Paloma O'Shea. It belongs to the Albéniz Foundation, and it bears the name of its Honorary Pr ...

Career

Da Costa is both a conductor and a virtuoso violinist who plays with a 1727 Stradivarius Di Barbaro violin using a Sartory bow. In 2010, he won the Canada Council's Virginia Parker prize and has also won the Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition. In 2012, he won the

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for the Classical album of the Year. In 2021, his contract as the artistic director of the ''Orchestre Symphonique De Longueuil'' was renewed for ten years.

References

External links

Alexandre da Costa's Official Website

Orchestre Symphonique De Longueuil Official Website (English landing page)
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