Nadia Côté always knew she would be a musician. Before taking up the French horn, she played piano, violin and viola da gamba. She studied horn in the classes of Michel Gingras in Chicoutimi and John Zirbel in Montreal, working again alongside him a few years in the OSM. Her first concert with the Orchestra dates to 1997 at Notre-Dame Basilica, and for the occasion she played a Wagnerian tuba!