CHARTRAND-RODRIGUE, Vanessa

Vanessa Chartrand-Rodrigue is a Canadian composer and conductor from Québec, based in Berlin. She studied voice at McGill University and viola da gamba at the Université de Montréal before continuing her operatic training in Germany. She has worked as a singer, instrumentalist, and conductor and was an assistant to Vladimir Jurowski.

Her compositions include orchestral, vocal, chamber, opera, and film music, among them The Dancing Pan, On the Nature of Infinity, GAIA – Ein Cyborg Oper, Black Eurydice, and Ruku v Ruce. She is also the founder of the OpusXX Orchestra, dedicated to music by women composers.