Members of the KSO

Clare Pellerin began playing violin at age 5. She studied violin and composition at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore and at Colgate University in upstate New York, and earned an MA in Composition at York University in Toronto, where she was concertmaster of the York University Symphony.  She is a current student of Mayumi Seiler (violin) and Chan Ka Nin (composition), and previously studied with Adele Armin, Laura Klugherz, Zechariah Goh Toh Chai, and Zhou Tian.  Clare recently premiered her Psyche String Quartet with the Grenadier Quartet, of which she is a founding member.  She performed the Canadian premiere of John Rutter’s Visions for solo violin and choir with Cantores Celestes in 2018, and opened for Romeo Scaccia at the Glenn Gould Studio with Saint-Saëns’ Rondo Capriccioso in 2015.  She has recorded with Protest the Hero, with the choir of St. James Cathedral, and for film composer James Mark Stewart.  Clare has played with many ensembles including the Seiler Strings, Symphonia London, the Eramosa Ensemble, the Society for New Music, the Emperor Quartet, and Volker Hartung’s Swing Band.  She serves as concertmaster of Unitatis Strings, and is a regular recitalist at Belmont House and in the Guelph Connections concert series.  Clare also holds an honours BA in political science from the University of Toronto and an MA in political studies from the University of Saskatchewan, and has training in ballet and flamenco.