Janice LaMarre

Janice LaMarre is a Canadian concert violist.

Life Originally from Barrie, Ontario, Canada, LaMarre first studied violin and viola at the Young Artists' Performance Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music, in Toronto. She won top prizes from the Kiwanis Music Festival throughout childhood, and attained diplomas in Viola, Violin, Music Theory, and Music History during her teenage years, through study with faculty of the University of Toronto. LaMarre went on to earn a Bachelors and Masters of Music at The Juilliard School in New York, She has published articles in the Journal of the American Viola Society and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. As a teaching artist, LaMarre was awarded grants for her concert-lesson plans from Young Audiences, performing them to auditoriums of school children and teachers throughout Connecticut. She developed year-long curriculum for New York City Public Schools as a Morse Fellow. She is the founder and director of Midsummer Sound, where she teaches and performs on violin and viola each summer. LaMarre is often invited to teach masterclasses as a guest artist during trips for solo recitals.

Her first solo CD of Beethoven and Schubert, recorded by Oktaven Audio, was released in spring of 2013.