Canadian-American violinist Maude Cloutier is currently in her final year of undergraduate at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Laurie Smukler as a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Fellowship. She made her orchestral debut at age thirteen as winner of the Indianapolis Youth Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and since performed as soloist with the Suburban Symphony Orchestra and Lakeland Symphony Orchestra. Her recent accolades include Grand Prize at the 2026 Adelphi Orchestra Young Artist Competition, the Henle Verlag Prize at the 2026 Sarasate Academy in Madrid, Spain, First Place at the 2025 Tuesday Musical Association Young Artist Competition, and finalist in the 2025 Juilliard Concerto Competition.

This past summer, Maude studied with Mihaela Martin at the Sarasate Academy, attended the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, and was a fellow at the Yale School of Music Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recent chamber music collaborations include performances with cellist Natasha Brofsky, violinist Francisco Fullana, pianist Peter Takács, and members of the Brentano and St. Lawrence string quartets. Other highlights include serving as guest concertmaster for Westside Chamber Players as well as chamber music performances for Stars in the Classics, Music from the Western Reserve, Chamber Music Charleston, and Close Encounters with Music. She is currently in the Juilliard Honors Chamber Music program and serves as a member of the Juilliard Orchestra strings principal pool. She will perform the Schumann Piano Quartet with Juilliard faculty member Shai Wosner for Juilliard ChamberFest 2027.

Before moving to New York, Maude studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she graduated from the Young Artist Program and Artist Certificate studying with Jan Mark Sloman and Jaime Laredo, and later studied with Ilya and Olga Kaler. While living there, she performed extensively throughout Northeast Ohio and was Artist-in-Residence with Stars in the Classics from 2022 to 2025. She is a three-time alumna of the Kneisel Hall Young Artist Program and has also attended the Heifetz International Music Institute, Encore Chamber Music, and Orford Musique. She has worked in master classes with Robert McDonald, Nina Lee, Frans Helmerson, Kim Kashkashian, Cho-Liang Lin, Joel Krosnick, Ron Copes, Joan Tower, and Chen Yi.

A committed early music performer, Maude studied baroque violin at Juilliard with Robert Mealy and frequently plays with the Juilliard415 ensemble, having previously worked with Julie Andrijeski at Case Western Reserve University. As member of the CWRU Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Ensembles, she frequently served as concertmaster, and performed at the 2024 Early Music America Summit and the 2025 Boston Early Music Festival. A fierce advocate for community engagement, she performed more than 150 concerts for communities in distress across the United States as guest violinist for Concerts for Hope, and she continues to serve various communities through her residencies with Mishkan Or Congregation, Project: Music Heals Us, and the Juilliard Gluck Community Service Fellowship.

Growing up, Maude enjoyed alpine ski racing almost as much as playing the violin — and still loves spending a lot of time outside all year round. Maude also loves cooking, Saturday Night Live, card games, intense philosophical conversations and laying down in the grass.