Quatuor Andara
It was in September 2014, around Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F major, that the members of the Andara Quartet - Marie-Claire Vaillancourt (violin), Jeanne Côté (violin), Vincent Delorme (viola) and Dominique Beauséjour-Ostiguy (cello) - met for the first time at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under the tutelage of Denis Brott. Since then, their passion, their dynamism, the quality of their playing and their unique repertoire have earned them critical acclaim across Canada and on the international scene.

The Andara Quartet is the University of Montreal's Junior Ensemble-in-Residence from 2021 to 2023, a Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Ensemble-in-Residence, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival's 2019 Career Development Residency Ensemble. Winners of several first prizes at national competitions between 2015 and 2019, the quartet members participated in the first ever Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam where they performed for members of the Emerson Quartet, Cuarteto Quiroga, Signum Quartet and Danel Quartet, among others. Numerous other high-profile international clinics have allowed them to work with musicians such as Günter Pichler, Mathieu Herzog and the Talich String Quartet at the 2018 edition of MISQA, the St. Lawrence String Quartet in Stanford (CA) in the summers of 2018 and 2017, Johannes Meissl and the Shanghai Quartet at the Pablo Casals Festival in France in 2017 as well as Barry Shiffman and Mark Steinberg at the Banff Chamber Music Residency in 2016. The group released its first-ever self-produced album À travers les Amériques in the summer of 2021.