Guest Artist Michèle Lekas, violin Michèle Lekas received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Quebec Conservatory of Music in her native Canada, and later studied in the United States with Jaime Laredo, David Cerone, and Sally Thomas. She was a member of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the chamber orchestras Les Violons du Roy (Quebec), the Camerata Lysy Gstaad (Switzerland), and the New American Chamber Orchestra (based in Granada Spain, and touring Europe for a year). Michèle is currently concertmaster of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a regular substitute musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She served as the Artistic Coordinator for the Rockford Symphony Orchestra’s series of Chamber Concerts at the Rockford Art Museum in Fall 2021. She often appears as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Michèle has recorded for CLAVES with the New American Chamber Orchestra, for Warner Brothers and NAXOS with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her classical repertoire, Michèle works in recording studios, and often performs for Broadway in Chicago productions.
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