Isabelle Lavoie

Isabelle Lavoie is an active freelance bass trombonist based in Toronto, Canada. Since 2007, Ms. Lavoie has been playing regularly with the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has been performing with many Canadian orchestras, including those of the Canadian Opera Company, National Ballet of Canada, Toronto Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, and Hamilton Philharmonic to name a few. She was also invited to play with the Macao Orchestra in Asia on several occasions.

As a member of the Monarch Brass, Isabelle has performed at the International Women’s Brass Conference in Kalamazoo, MI and in Cincinnati, OH, at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Columbus, OH and at the International Trombone Festival at The Julliard School in New York City, NY. Monarch Brass will also be featured at this year’s Midwest Clinic in Chicago, IL.

In addition to teaching privately, Ms. Lavoie was recently offered a contract lecturer position to teach trombone at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay for 2016-2017.

Isabelle has attended the Tanglewood Music Center as a guest artist and the Aldeburgh Festival (England) as a member of the Britten-Pears Orchestra. She also participated in several Canadian summer orchestral programs such as the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and the Banff Festival Orchestra.

After receiving a Bachelor of Music from the University of Montreal, where she studied with Albert Devito, Isabelle completed an Artist Diploma at The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, under the tutelage of Jeffrey Hall and Gordon Wolfe.