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Danielle
Bouchard – Member Profile
French
Horn
Danielle Bouchard is a 4th year honour roll student at the
University of Windsor studying French Horn while acquiring her Honours
Bachelor's of Music Education. She has played with numerous
and
varying groups including the Windsor Symphony Youth Orchestra, the
Rising Stars Pit Band, and the Windsor Military Band. She
currently
plays with the Southern Winds Brass Quintet, the University of
Windsor Wind Ensemble, the Windsor Community
Orchestra, and the prestigious Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, one of
the leading orchestral training groups in the United States.
Her
private horn instructors include Bernadette Berthelotte (a PhD in Music
Education who teaches at Herman High School), Martin Limoges (currently
1st horn of the Kitchener-Waterloo Orchestra), David Haskins (currently
3rd horn of the Vancouver Symphony) and Timothy Lockwood (currently the
4th horn of Orchestra London). She competed for Kiwanis 2007,
achieved a 1st place finish in the Brass category, and was asked to
perform her solo piece at Kiwanis' Awards Ceremony. She then
competed at the provincial level and won a first place finish in Grade
9 Brass. She is currently auditioning for orchestral groups
including
the National Youth Orchestra of Canada and the National Academy
Orchestra of Canada. On November 17th, 2008, Danielle performed "Morceau de Concert" by Camille Saint-Saens at the
Concerto Night Competition with the Windsor Community Orchestra and was one of the 5 winning musicians.
As a prize she gets to perform a solo with the Windsor Community
Orchestra. Outside of music and school, she is a
devout
Christian, a fond admirer of Euchre, wine, and hockey, a book worm
interested in philosophy, health sciences, history, theology, and
chemistry, and a political activist against child poverty and abortion.
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