​22-year-old Canadian-American violinist Maude Cloutier made her solo debut with orchestra at age 13 in the Hilbert Circle Theatre in Indianapolis, and has maintained an active performing career throughout the U.S. ever since. Most recently, she won the Strings Division First Place in the 2025 Tuesday Musical Scholarship Competition and was a finalist in Juilliard’s 2025 Violin Concerto Competition. A passionate chamber musician, she is a three-time alumna of the Kneisel Hall Young Artist Program and founding member of The Castlemaine Theater with cellist Ari Peraza-Webb and pianist Jude Giddens, with whom she performed extensively in Cleveland during a memorable two-week concert residency project she put together in January 2024. As an avid champion of contemporary music, she has premiered over a dozen works to date, was a member of the CIM New Music Ensemble from 2022-2025, and has performed for Juilliard’s The New Series and Choreographers & Composers. Maude is equally at home in historical performance practice: a member of the Case Baroque Orchestra from 2023 to 2025, she performed with them at the 2024 Early Music America Summit and 2025 Boston Early Music Festival and currently plays with the Juilliard415 ensemble. She has served as concertmaster of Westside Chamber Players in New York, the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, the Case Western Baroque Orchestra, and Singers Company, and has performed for many prominent chamber music series throughout northeast Ohio. She also serves as Artist-in-Residence for Musical Upcoming Stars in
the Classics in Pepper Pike, OH. As a budding educator, she has served as Head of Violin Faculty at the Akron Music Institute, is a certified Suzuki violin teacher, and served as a Young Artist Mentor for Kneisel Hall’s Program for Maine Students in 2024 and 2025. Also passionate about
community engagement, she performed for the nonprofit initiative Concerts for Hope
from 2021-2023, with whom she performed in drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers
maximum security prisons, and other communities in need throughout the United
States. Maude is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree at the Juilliard School as a Jerome L.
Greene Fellow studying with Laurie Smukler, following six years of pre-college and artist
certificate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jaime Laredo, Olga & Ilya
Kaler, and the late Jan Mark Sloman. She is also taking secondary baroque violin
lessons with Robert Mealy, having previously studied with Dr. Julie Andrijeski and
mentored by Jaap ter Linten. Other important musical mentors include Joel Krosnick,
Mauricio Fuks, and Sharon Robinson. She plays a 1786 Julius Lombardi violin graciously
on loan by Kenneth Warren & Son in Chicago.