Élodie Bouchard & Anthony Harvey
Biography Élodie Bouchard & Anthony Harvey
Elodie Bouchard
Passionate about early music, soprano Elodie Bouchard stands out for her musical expressivity and the diversity in colours of her voice. She performs regularly with the baroque ensemble Les Méandres and the Scholastica Ensemble with whom she participated in the recording Saints inouïs recently released on Atma Classique. She was featured at the opening concert of the Montreal Bach Festival in 2018, as well as at the Montréal Baroque Festival and the Young Performers Festival of Early Music America in 2019.
Elodie completed a bachelor’s and master’s degree in classical voice performance at the Université de Montreal, followed by a master’s degree in early music at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in 2019. She received the Wirth Family Fellowship in music as well as a scholarship for excellence.
Interested in Lieder and French melodies, she has performed several recitals with pianists, in which she presents works by Poulenc, Wolf, Schubert, Debussy, and Hahn. It is primarily in this repertoire that she develops a concern for detail and a finesse of interpretation. During concerts, she interprets the creations of Montreal-based composers Eliazer Kramer and Maggie Ayotte.
Her interest in opera led her to perform several roles, including Alcina in Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina, the first opera composed by a woman, Ginevra in Handel’s Ariodante, Serpina in Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, peace in Charpentier’s Les arts florissants and the princess in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Anthony Harvey
is an American lutenist. He has performed as both a continuo player and soloist with ensembles such as the Washington Bach Consort, Chatham Baroque, and I Musici de Montréal. He has also served as Adjunct Faculty at James Madison University (Harrisonburg, Virginia), Washington College (Chestertown, Maryland), and as a guest artist at the Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He holds multiple degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music and is presently a doctoral candidate in lute performance at McGill University.
