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Biography
Originally from Gatineau, Quebec, conductor Eve Legault is known for her expressive and dynamic presence on the podium. Recent performances in 2025 include “Anything Goes” at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Eve also participated in the RBC Canadian Conductor Showcase with Daniel Raiskin and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Eve is currently a Conductor in Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership (WML) program. This upcoming season, she will conduct a “Jeans & Classics” program with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. She will also return to Opera Kelowna and assist with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, Guelph Symphony, along with many more upcoming placements.
As an Associate Conductor over the past season, Eve had opportunities to work with several WML partners. She was a Guest Conductor and the first Assistant Conductor with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. She assisted at the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera Kelowna, Shaw Festival and Manitoba Opera. Eve received the mentorship of Gustavo Gimeno, Sarah Ioannides, Tyrone Paterson, Daniel Raiskin, Paul Sportelli, Rosemary Thomson and Naomi Woo.
Previously, Eve became the first woman to conduct her hometown orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Gatineau. Other engagements included a concert as a Guest Conductor with the Ottawa Chamber Orchestra. Eve was a Guest Conductor and subsequently the Principal Conductor of the Pembroke Symphony Orchestra from 2023-2025.
Between 2020 and 2022, she received 16 individual contracts at the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as a Guest Assistant Conductor to Alexander Shelley, John Storgårds, Dalia Stasevska and Xian Zhang. During the summer 2021, Eve was Assistant Conductor with the Montreal-based Orchestre de la francophonie, under the artistic direction of Jean-Philippe Tremblay.
Formerly, Eve fulfilled several roles within the international opera community. She completed graduate studies in 3 disciplines: Conducting, Piano and Accompanying. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, where she was bestowed the Helen Cohn Award.
Eve was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. She also received four grants from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to participate in conducting masterclasses in Europe (Kenneth Kiesler and the Berlin Sinfonietta, Tomáš Netopil and the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra). During a masterclass in Finland with Sasha Mäkilä and the Helsinki Metropolitan Orchestra, she was selected by the musicians as the “Orchestra’s Favorite Conductor.”