Teaching

July 2016 at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington , VT (gmcmf.org).

I am as passionate about teaching as I am about performing. Unlocking young players’ own voice and giving them the tools to communicate in the most creative and accomplished manner is what I strive to do. My interest lies in developing an integrated technique, where musical and physical gestures become one, where listening is a high art and where serious interpretation of the great works of today and of the great masters of the past are crafted in sound with physical freedom at the instrument.

During the year, I teach Undergraduate, Graduate and Doctorate students at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. Auditions (Undergraduate Admissions and Graduate Admissions) for these programs take place in February and March for admission the following September.

In the summer, I teach two sessions of two weeks each at the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy, am on the faculty at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT, as well as the Summer Violin Institute at the Bienen School of Music of Northwestern University, in Chicago. Since the summer of 2022, I am summer faculty at the Session Sonates Violon et Piano in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, a program for gifted young players interested in the art of violin-piano sonata Interpretation. I am also frequent guest artist and give masterclasses at other festivals in Canada and the United States.

For schedule of guest masterclasses, please click here.

  

[Feature] Schulich School of Music
Renowned violinist Violaine Melançon to join the Schulich School of Music string faculty

[Feature] Schulich School of Music
Fall, 2017
Violaine has been appointed Visiting Professor at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal.