Geneviève Leclair is a Canadian conductor whose work spans symphony, ballet, and opera, with a particularly distinguished and wide-ranging career in ballet. She appears regularly with leading organizations across Canada, the United States, and the U.K., and is also Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, where she has been teaching conducting since 2016. Highlights of the 2025–26 season include debuts with Symphony Nova Scotia and Thunder Bay Symphony.

She served as Principal Guest Conductor with Orchestre Classique de Montréal in 2022–2023, Assistant Conductor and Guest Conductor for Boston Ballet from 2010 to 2017, Music Director of Parkway Concert Orchestra from 2013 to 2019, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Conductors Guild from 2017 to 2020.

Geneviève’s performances have been praised as “impeccable” (Boston Phoenix), “ravishing,” and of “exemplary pacing and reading” (Hugh Fraser), while her conducting style is lauded for its “verve and precision,” with “confident dynamics and tempos, crisp rhythms, and crystalline phrasing creat[ing] powerful forward momentum” (Carla DeFord).

A passionate advocate for collaborative and socially engaged arts, Geneviève premiered Saskatoon Symphony’s segment of *The [uncertain] Four Seasons*, a global initiative on climate action initiated in Australia ahead of the COP26 climate summit. She also curated a program on insect conservation for Wellesley Symphony in collaboration with the Sudbury Valley Trustees. With Orchestre Métropolitain, she premiered a triptych of works about acceptance inspired by a children’s book character with vitiligo, *The Cloud Shoveler*. In 2020, she conducted the Québec premiere of Laura Kaminsky’s opera *As One* — the story of a transgender character — with Orchestre Classique de Montréal in a live stream that was later broadcast on OuTV to critical acclaim. Alongside these projects, she maintains an extensive guest conducting schedule with orchestras including The National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Houston Ballet, Calgary Philharmonic, Spartanburg Philharmonic, Regina Symphony, Northern Ballet, Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke, Jeunesses musicales Canada, and Symphony New Hampshire.

Her ballet repertoire includes over 50 works, spanning the major Romantic and 20th-century masterpieces. Highlights include fifteen Balanchine ballets, Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and Onegin, Kylian’s Symphony of Psalms, Lander’s Etudes, McGregor’s Chroma, Neumeier’s Nijinsky and The Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Nureyev’s Sleeping Beauty and Don Quixote, Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, and Swan Lake, Wright’s Giselle, and Ashton’s Cinderella.

Geneviève was awarded the 2017 American Prize in Conducting (college/university division) and placed second in the professional orchestra division. In 2010, she received the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation Award in Orchestral Conducting. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Orchestral Conducting from Boston University, where she studied with Maestro David Hoose, and earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in flute performance at Université de Montréal, the latter under the guidance of Denis Bluteau, former Associate Principal Flutist of Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal.