Blake Pouliot

A tenacious young artist with a passion that enraptures his audience in every performance, violinist Blake Pouliot has anchored himself among the ranks of classical phenoms. Since his orchestral debut at age 11, Pouliot has performed with the orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, Madison, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, and Seattle, among many others. Blake Pouliot’s 2024–25 symphonic highlights have included debuts with the LA Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Houston Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and San Antonio Symphony. Blake expanded his presence in Europe this season with performances with the London Philharmonic and Alevtina Ioffe, Chamber Orchestra of Europe with conductor Mattias Pintscher and cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and KYMI Sinfonietta and Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire. During his time as soloist in residence of Orchestre Métropolitain in 2020–21, Pouliot and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 and Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons, which led to Pouliot’s 2022 debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center performing John Corigliano’s The Red Violin. Highlights elsewhere include Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Angela Hewitt, Bryan Cheng, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in 2022–23. Pouliot released his debut album of twentieth century French music on Analekta Records in 2019 to critical acclaim and a 2019 Juno Award nomination. Pouliot performs on the 1729 Guarneri del Gesù, which is on generous loan from an anonymous donor.