Luc is principal viola of the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean
Symphony Orchestra and violist in the Alcan String
Quartet since 1994. He is presently violin and chamber music teacher at the
Québec Conservatory of Music in Saguenay.
Born in Québec City, he graduated from Laval University as a violinist where he was
a student of György Terebesi. His studies continued in France
where he participated in classes of Ludmila Choubina et
Youri Bashmet. He spent several summers at the Banff Center
for the Arts in Alberta, Canada studying chamber music with Zoltan
Szekely of the Hungarian Quartet.
Luc is a founding-member of the Sinfonietta de
Radio-Canada, Les Violons du Roy, and the Artur Leblanc Quartet. He has also performed chamber music with the
Orford Quartet, André Laplante,
Maureen Forester, Rostislav Dubinsky,
and Eugene Drucker, Alain Lefèvre et
Marc-André Hamelin.
The composer Marc Bélanger wrote for Luc a very unique
concerto for «violinist-violist» and orchestra in witch the soloist has to perform
alternatively violin and viola. Luc also produced a recording featuring works of three
legendary musicians from Québec, Arthur LeBlanc, André Mathieu and Félix Leclerc.
His viola was made in Québec city in 1995 by the maker Gérard
Arseneault.
