Benoit Gauthier

Benoit Gauthier is a Canadian conductor acclaimed for the intensity and depth of his interpretations. In 2024, he received the prestigious Jean-Marie-Beaudet Prize in Conducting from the Canada Council for the Arts.

He recently made his New York debut at David Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center), where Phindie wrote: “Gauthier clearly had a sense of the weight of the material, and had the requisite authority to guide the Curtis orchestra into carrying that weight” (2024). He has also conducted the National Arts Centre Orchestra (2025), the Quebec Symphony Orchestra (2024), and the Laval Symphony Orchestra (2023 and 2025), and is scheduled to make upcoming debuts with the Windsor Symphony, the Thunder Bay Symphony, and Orchestre de l’Agora.

Gauthier received the 2023 Emerging Artist Award from Culture Côte-Nord and has been supported by grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the AIDA Fund, and the Jeunesses Musicales Canada Foundation, as a conductor, flutist, and composer. In 2025, he was also named among CBC’s “30 Classical Musicians Under 30 to Watch.”