Sofia-Marie Bergeron

Sofia-Marie Bergeron is a Canadian violinist from Montreal. She studied the violin at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal in the class of Sonia Jelinkova. In 2010 she moved to Europe to study with violinist Silvia Marcovici at the Haute École de musique de Lausanne in Switzerland (Bachelor of Arts in Music 2011) and in Austria at the Kunstuniversität Graz. She also studied with Salvatore Accardo at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy and three years at the Walter Stauffer Accademia in Cremona. From 2013 to 2016 Sofia-Marie joined the International Menuhin Music Academy to work with Maxim Vengerov. She had the opportunity to play many concerts in Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Israel, Macedonia as a member and soloist of the Menuhin Camerata. In 2018, she taught violin to undergraduate students in the music pedagogy program at the University of Ottawa and completed a music Master degree in 2020. In that same year, she obtained a certificate in teaching elementary piano from the Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto). In 2022 and 2023, three of her students were Gold Medalists from the Royal Conservatory of Music. Sofia-Marie teaches violin from preparatory to advanced levels, viola, piano (elementary, intermediate levels).