Michèle Lekas, violin

Michèle Lekas received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Quebec Conservatory of Music in her native Canada and later studied in the United States with Jaime Laredo, David Cerone, and SallyThomas.

Ms. Lekas was a member of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the chamber orchestra Les Violons du Roy (Quebec), the Camerata Lysy Gstaad (Switzerland), and the New American Chamber Orchestra (based in Granada Spain, and touring Europe for a year). Ms. Lekas is currently concertmaster of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a regular substitute musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She served as the Artistic Coordinator for the Rockford Symphony Orchestra’s series of Chamber Concerts at
the Rockford Art Museum in Fall 2021.

She often appears as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Ms. Lekas has recorded for CLAVES with the New American Chamber Orchestra, for Warner Brothers and NAXOS with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and with Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition to her classical repertoire, Ms. Lekas works in recording studios and often performs for Broadway in Chicago productions.