STÉPHANE TÉTREAULT, Cello

Holder of countless awards and distinctions, Stéphane Tétreault is the recipient of the 2019 Virginia Parker Prize from the Canada Council for the Arts. He is also the winner of the 2022 Opus Prize for “Performer of the Year”, awarded by the Conseil québécois de la musique and accompanied by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2018, he received the “Maureen Forrester Next Generation Award” from the Stratford Summer Music Festival in recognition of his sensitivity, mastery of his instrument and his great qualities as a communicator. In 2015, he was selected in the “Classe d'Excellence de violoncelle” Gautier Capuçon of the Fondation Louis Vuitton and received the “Career Development Award” from the Women's Musical Club of Toronto. In 2013, he received the very first "Fernand Lindsay Career Grant" from the Father Lindsay Foundation as well as the "Choquette-Symcox Prize" from Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. Winner of First Prize at the 2007 Standard Life-OSM Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition, he was named "Radio-Canada Revelation" in classical music, "Discovery of the Year" at the Prix Opus and "Personality of the Week" by the daily newspaper La Presse.

Appointed first soloist in residence of the Orchestre Métropolitain, Stéphane performed with Yannick Nézet-Séguin during the 2014-2015 season, among others. In 2016, he made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Nézet-Séguin, and he performed at the prestigious Gstaad Menuhin Festival in Switzerland. During the 2017-18 season, he took part in the first European tour of the Orchestre Métropolitain with Maestro Nézet-Séguin and made his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Stéphane has shared the stage with the famous violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov, pianists Alexandre Tharaud, Jan Lisiecki, Louis Lortie, Roger Vignoles, Marc-André Hamelin, Charles Richard-Hamelin and John Lenehan, as well as with conductors Michael Tilson Thomas, Paul McCreesh, John Storgårds, Rune Bergmann, Kensho Watanabe and Tung-Chieh Chuang and many others. He has also participated in numerous master classes, notably with cellists Gautier Capuçon and Frans Helmerson.

His first album on the Analekta label, recorded with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec under the direction of Fabien Gabel, was awarded the “Editor's Choice” by the prestigious Gramophone magazine. In 2015, he released a second album, on works by Haydn, Schubert and Brahms with pianist Marie-Ève Scarfone, which was included in Gramophone 's “Critic's Choice 2016” list of the best albums of the year. In 2017, Stéphane joined harpist Valérie Milot and violinist Antoine Bareil to produce a recording devoted to trios for violin, cello and harp. His three albums have all received nominations in the Classical Album of the Year category at the ADISQ Gala.

Stéphane studied for over 10 years under the tutelage of the late cellist and conductor Yuli Turovsky. He holds a Master's degree in performance from the University of Montreal.

Stéphane plays the 1707 Stradivarius cello “Countess of Stainlein, Ex-Paganini”, which was generously lent to him by Madame Sophie Desmarais.