JACOB AUCLAIR-FORTIER, holder of a master's degree in cello from the Conservatory of Music of Quebec in Montreal, studied with Guy Fouquet, former first cello of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. During his studies, he also had the chance to perfect his skills with great masters such as Shauna Rolston and Roland Pidoux. A cello teacher at the Joseph-François Perrault school in Montreal as well as at the Joseph-François Perrault school for young musicians for many years, it is with great pleasure that he joins the team at the Conservatoire de Music of Val-d'Or and the Center de Musique et de Danse de Val-d'Or in the fall of 2017. He also teaches at Camp Musical du Père Lindsay and Camp Musical Des Laurentides.
Very active at the orchestral level, Jacob has joined most of the province's orchestras. He has been heard with the Estuaire, Laval, Longueuil, Trois-Rivières and Drummondville symphony orchestras, among others, as well as the Orchester Symphonique de Québec and the Orchester des Grands Ballets Canadiens. He is also a regular member of the Orchester Symphonique de Gatineau and the Orchester Symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean. Passionate about chamber music and open to all styles of music, Jacob had the chance to perform with various groups as a guest artist. He thus participated twice in the Festival en Chanson de Petite Vallée within a quartet in residence, in several concerts with the cellist Claude Lamothe, in a tour in Switzerland with the cello quartet Ponticello and in a concert with the Quatuor Saguenay (formerly Quatuor Alcan).
He is also a member, since 2018, of the Eskers trio with his colleagues Frédéric St-Pierre and Hugues Cloutier.
