Renèe-Paule Gauthier

Dr. Renée-Paule Gauthier is a passionate performer, performance coach, and teacher whose career has taken her across the United States and Canada as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and lecturer.

An accomplished concert artist, Dr. Gauthier plays with some of Chicago's most prominent ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony and the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra. She was mentioned as one of the "best upcoming violinists of the new generation" in the book Violin Virtuosos, from Paganini to the 21st Century (Henry Roth). Dr. Gauthier has won awards in several competitions, including the exclusive three-year loan of the Taft Stradivari violin through the 2009 edition of the Canada Council for the Arts' Musical Instrument Bank Competition.

Dr. Gauthier is the host of the Mind Over Finger Podcast, and she travels throughout the United States giving masterclasses and clinics on the topics of mindful practice, audition preparation, and anxiety management.
She's a graduate of the University of Montreal, the Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University. She was Concertmaster of the New World Symphony; Assistant Concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic; a member of the first violin section of the National Arts Centre Orchestra; and is the Founding Artistic Director of the Rendez-vous Musical de Laterrière, a chamber music festival in the province of Québec.

She performs on a modern violin by Canadian luthier Marcel Nadeau, and a 19th century Auguste Barbé bow.