A Symphonic Flight with the AOJM ^{Summer 2025}

Georges-Étienne d’Entremont has led the Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de la Montérégie since the 2015-2016 season. He studied saxophone with Claude Brisson, piano with Monique Leblanc, conducting with Raffi Armenian and Stéphane Laforest, and choral conducting with Louis Lavigueur at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal. He then completed his studies with Per Borin at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany.

Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) Opera Workshop for Le Nozze di Figaro (2002) and Carmen (2003), he pursued his opera training in competitions and festivals in Romania, Hungary and Spain. He returned to UQÀM in 2008, where he took part in the end-of-year concert as director of musical ensembles.

He also dedicates himself to the dissemination of contemporary music, conducting concerts as guest conductor with Ensemble Allogène at the Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur and as part of the Montréal/Nouvelles Musiques festival. In addition, he completed a post-graduate course at the Conservatoire focusing on contemporary music, under Véronique Lacroix. He has conducted several premieres, notably with the latter institution’s symphony orchestra, brass ensemble and percussion ensemble.

George Étienne d’Entremont is a faculty member of the Père Lindsay Music Camp, where he conducts the 3rd session string orchestra.

The Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de la Montérégie (OSJM) is made up of over sixty musicians aged 14 to 25. Georges-Étienne d’Entremont has been conducting this ensemble since September 2015, succeeding to Luc Chaput, who led the OSJM from 1996 to 2014. The Orchestra presents several concerts each season and has taken part for several years in the Virée classique, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s signature summer event.