Florence Laurain, 27

Florence Laurain is a french-canadian flutist who studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal with Marie-Andrée Benny and at the Haute école de musique de Genève in the class of Jacques Zoon. During her last year of her Masters degree in Geneva, she won her present job : 2nd flute with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 2023. She also played with the Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de chambre de Genève, the Orchestre de Pays de Savoie and the National Arts Center Orchestra. She therefore had the chance to play under the baton of conductors such as Klaus Mäkelä, Simon Rattle, Lahav Shani and Charles Dutoit. She also continues to challenge herself by participating in competitions such as the Prix d’Europe in 2024 where she won three prizes and by playing chamber music concerts with groups like the Pentaèdre Quintet and Mozart quartets with colleagues of the OSM. Florence is also a Haynes Young Artist. She also was a semi-finalist in the soloist OSM competition in 2020 and won the Orford music prize. In fact, she perfected her skills at different academies such as Orford music and the Domaine Forget where she had Emmanuel Pahud, Julien Beaudiment, Philippe Bernold, Mathieu Dufour, Robert Langevin, Leone Buyse, Ransom Wilson, Michael Cox, among others, as Masters.