Octavie Dostaler-Lalonde (Montreal, CA) performs on three continents in a wide variety of genres and styles.
At home as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra player, she is also a researcher and gives lectures in universities around the world. A prize winner at several international competitions (Concours Corneille, Early Music Yamanashi, Graun Brothers Award), Octavie received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Fonds Podiumkunsten and the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst for her research and artistic endeavours.
She was invited to give solo and chamber music concerts in Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Grachtenfestival, Musica Antica da Camera (NL), Folle journée Tokyo (JA), Festival Royaumont, La Nouvelle Athènes, La Cité de la Voix (FR), MA Brugge, AMUZ (BE), and Festival Montréal Baroque (CA). She regularly collaborates with historical keyboardist Artem Belogurov and their ensemble Postscript, Ensemble Masques, Vox Luminis, La Sfera Armoniosa, Il Gardellino and Camerata RCO. As an orchestral player, she performed with the Orchestra of the 18th century, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht. Her recordings can be heard on labels such as Alpha Classics, Challenge Classics, Passacaille, Paraty, Brilliant Classics and TRPTK.