Musical Awakening ^{Summer 2025}

Having started playing the piano at a young age, Chloé Yoshino Lemay now shares her passion for music through teaching classical piano. She gives private lessons at La musique aux enfants, an initiative of the OSM that aims to provide equitable access to music education. The school offers a stimulating and supportive environment for the artistic development of young musicians.

In addition to her work as an educator, Chloé is pursuing her studies in graphic design at UQAM, after completing a bachelor’s degree in arts studies at Université de Montréal, combining a major in classical piano and a minor in visual arts. Her career path has led her to explore the links between visual creation, musical expression, and arts education.

Curious and committed, she seeks to cultivate sensitive learning spaces where art becomes a language of openness and connection.

Venezuelan pianist Geraldina Mendez holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Ukrainian National Academy of Music “P. I. Tchaikovsky”. She has intensely studied the piano solo repertoire of J. S. Bach, having participated in the Bach Seminar with Robert Levin in Leipzig (2001), the Fourth International J.S. Bach Piano Competition in Saarbrücken (2001) and the XIII International Johann-Sebastian-Bach Competition (Leipzig, 2002).

For several years she worked at El Sistema (National Network of Youth and Children’s Choruses and Orchestras of Venezuela) in Venezuela and Ecuador, as a teacher and collaborative pianist.

She has performed as a soloist in several countries (Venezuela, Ukraine, Germany, Ecuador, Luxembourg, Spain, Brazil and Canada).

She currently teaches piano at the École de musique of La musique aux enfants (an OSM initiative) and at Collège Laval.