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Marc Destrubé
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A native of Victoria, Marc Destrubé is equally at home as a soloist, chamber
musician, concertmaster or director/conductor of orchestras and divides his time
between performances of the standard repertoire, particularly music of the 20th
century, on modern instruments, and performing baroque and classical music on period
instruments.
He has appeared as soloist and guest director with symphony orchestras in Victoria,
Windsor and Halifax as well as with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and Portland
Baroque Orchestra, and he led the Belgian ensemble Anima Eterna in acclaimed recordings
of the complete Mozart Piano Concerti with Jos van Immerseel. A founding member of the
Tafelmusik Orchestra, he has appeared with many of the leading period-instrument
orchestras in North America and Europe including as guest concertmaster of the Academy
of Ancient Music and of the Hanover Band.
He is first violinist with the Axelrod String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., where the quartet plays on the
museum’s exceptional collection of Stradivari and Amati instruments. He has also
performed and recorded with L’Archibudelli (Vera Beths, Jurgen Küssmaul, Anner
Bijlsma) and is a member of the Turning Point Ensemble in Vancouver.
As a concertmaster he has played under Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Helmuth
Rilling, Christopher Hogwood, Philippe Herreweghe, Gustav Leonhardt and Frans Brüggen.
He is co-concertmaster of Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century with whom he
has toured the major concert halls and festivals of Europe, North America, Japan and
Australia. He was concertmaster of the CBC Radio Orchestra from 1996 to 2002, and is
concertmaster of the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra.
He has been director of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra since its founding in 1991 and
has been responsible for commissioning works for the orchestra from a number of
Vancouver-based composers, as well as instigating other innovative projects such as a
program of French baroque and First Nations dance and music. He has also directed
several Modern Baroque Opera productions, including the premiere of Peter
Hannan’s 120 Songs for the Marquis de Sade.
A highly-respected teacher, he gives annual classes at international academies in
Mateus (Portugal) and Vancouver. He has also been an invited teacher at the Paris,
Moscow and Utrecht Conservatoires and has presented children’s concerts at the
Cité de la Musique (Paris).
His recording of Haydn Violin Concertos on the ATMA label has been praised by the
Strad Magazine (London) for the “stylish solo playing..., individual yet
unselfconcious” and by Whole Note Magazine (Toronto) for its “bold and
daring solo playing”. He has also recorded for Sony, EMI, Teldec, Channel
Classics, Hänssler, Globe and CBC Records as well as being broadcast regularly on the
CBC.
He lives in West Vancouver with his wife and two children.
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