” Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can achieve great things. “

— DAVID SUZUKI

honorary president

Bita Cattelan

Ambassadors

Dax Dasilva

Committee

Nicolas Ellis
Jean-Frédéric Caron

ORCHESTRA HIGHLIGHTS

  • Nicolas Ellis, artistic director, is also music director of the Orchestre National de Bretagne, and first guest conductor of Les Violons du Roy. He regularly leads several ensembles in Canada and Europe
  • Since its foundation in 2013, the OA has donated over $430,000 to Canadian environmental and humanitarian organizations
  • As part of string orchestra tours, the Orchestra has presented more than twenty concerts across Quebec since 2019, praised by audiences and critics alike.
  • Each month, our musicians present workshop concerts to about sixty inmates at the Montreal Correctional Institution, as well as to patients from the geriatric psychiatry department of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal.