Violin, Assistant to the YPSP Coordinator

BM Conservatoire de Musique du Québec à Montréal; Performance diploma, CMQM. Picard has played in master classes for Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Repin, Gil Shaham, Léonidas Kavakos, Gabriel Croitoru, Boris Berman, Paul Kantor and Pamela Frank. Picard received the Prize with great distinction in violin and chamber music from the CMQM. She has taught in Quebec with Les Cordes de l’Estrie and Le Camp Musical de l’Estrie from 1998 to 2006, and has been musical director of the camp since 2006. She also teaches at the Société Musicale d’été Vivaldi, in France.