« Guest conductor Geneviève Leclair marking an auspicious debut with the RWB, leads the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra through Adolphe Adam’s lushly textured score, bringing out new colors and timbres from the players. »
Holly Harris
Winnipeg Free Press
8 novembre 2024
«Geneviève Leclair knowingly conducted the performance, realizing the subtle, as well as the dramatic tensions of Hannah’s emotions. »
Jim Lowe
Rutland Herald,
28 novembre 2020
INTERVIEW: American Prize Winner
Geneviève Leclair on Conducting
Basil Considine
Twin Cities Arts Reader
30 avril 2017
On Entering the World of Ballet Conducting: An
Interview with Geneviève Leclair
Carla DeFord
Critical Dance
28 août 2013
« In its annual « Next Generation » program, Boston Ballet (BB) features students, trainees and pre-professional dancers with music accompaniment performed by the New England Conservatory (NEC) Youth Orchestra. Having attended this event since 2014, I have to say that the star of this year’s show was Geneviève Leclair, assistant conductor of the Boston Ballet Orchestra, who guest conducted the NEC ensemble. There were also several memorable dancers, but the award for sustained achievement in music performance, including Act III of Tchaikovsky’s The Sleeping Beauty and excerpts from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, goes to Leclair, who conducted the orchestra with such verve and precision that its members sounded not like the students they are, but like seasoned professionals.
In addition to being essential to the audience’s enjoyment of the program, the music was an absolute gift to the dancers because it gave them the structure and direction they needed. Leclair’s confident dynamics and tempos, crisp rhythms, and crystalline phrasing created powerful momentum. Moreover, each style in the Tchaikovsky score was vividly realized - from the meowing of Puss in Boots and the White Cat, to the chirping of the Bluebird, to the stirring rhythms of the polonaise and mazurka. How wonderful for the dancers to be supported by music of such high caliber. »
Carla DeFord
Critical Dance
18 mai 2016
« One of the chief joys of the Boston Ballet production of The Nutcracker is the live music played by its orchestra of over 50 members. For this performance, Assistant-Conductor Geneviève Leclair was at the podium, and the orchestra was in top form. Everything on stage, from Fresi’s spectacular jumps to Ellis’ ecstatic stretches in the air high above her partner’s head, was accomplished in collaboration with Leclair and the superb musicians of the Boston Ballet Orchestra. »
Carla DeFord
Critical Dance
December 17, 2015
« Prokofiev’s score is an immense and complicated one, and the Boston Ballet, under the baton of principal conductor Jonathan McPhee, on March 14, and assistant conductor Geneviève Leclair, on March 21, gave it great vitality. The fulfillment of the spell at midnight, with its clanging percussion and enormous blasts from the low brass, was especially dramatic. The orchestra has only two rehearsals per production, but consistently produces performances of the highest caliber. Dancers of the company, one and all, are privileged to work with such a distinguished group of musicians. »
Carla DeFord
Critical Dance
21 mars 2014
« The 58-piece amateur orchestra [Parkway Concert Orchestra] is now in its 71st season. Since 2013, it has been under the baton of Genevieve Leclair, who has raised the level of the orchestra to new heights. »
Muriel Porter
New Pond Village Journal
November 2015
« Leclair drew an absolutely ravishing performance from the National Academy Orchestra and the Andante cantabile sang and danced like a choir of angels and cherubim. »
Hugh Fraser
9 août 2010
« Unter-Konductor Geneviève Leclair took the podium for the sprightly & bright Rossini overture to his Italian Girl in Algiers ». […] Leclair brought out every nuance of the piece and bestowed such an impacting aspect to her reading that I could smell the salt air. »
Danny Gaisin
Ontario Arts Review
24 juin 2010
« Throughout, the corps and the orchestra were of a piece: not openly virtuosic, not hard-edged, not drill-sergeant precise, but ample, accomplished, gracious and suggestive - Balanchine (and Hindemith, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky) with a human face. (And, on Sunday, a woman’s face in front of the orchestra: assistant conductor Geneviève Leclair leading an impeccable performance of Theme and Variations.) »
Jeffrey Gantz
The Boston Phoenix
13 mai 2010
« The matchmaker or introducer was Sergei Prokofiev’s deceptively uncomplicated classical symphony. This short four-movement work was directed by apprentice conductor Geneviève Leclair. The lady shows no musical temerity; rather she demonstrates a light touch that cloaks a firm hand over the orchestra. The reprised theme of the opening movement led to a most precise and detailed string handling of the larghetto that was exquisite. Leclair’s gavotte and exhilarating finale were a captivating contrast of tempi and musical message. »
Danny Gaisin
Ontario Arts Review
June 27, 2009
« The National Academy Orchestra under the energetic baton of Geneviève Leclair, apprentice conductor, unleashed the romance in Pushkin’s folkloric tale ‘Ruslan and Ludmilla’. […] This was portrayed through an orchestral performance that was stirring and arousing from beginning to end. Energetic rhythmic precision married with expressed relaxed and flexible lyrical moments on both the conductor and orchestra’s parts drew the curtain to a close with a happy ending. »
Kamara Hennessy
Ontario Arts Review
22 juin 2009
