Camille Couture

Camille Couture (born February 23, 1876 in Loretteville (now a district of Québec ), † June 27, 1961 in Montréal ) was a Canadian violinist, music teacher and violin maker .

Couture studied violin with Jean Duquette in Montreal for seven years . In 1899 he went to Europe. There he was a student of Jean Quintin and Ovide Musin at the Liège Conservatory and attended the school of the violin maker Emile Heynberg . He gave concerts in Liege, but preferred teaching when he returned to Canada.

He taught from 1903 to 1917 in Winnipeg , then in Montreal, where he was a teacher at the École Vincent-d'Indy and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec and gave private lessons. His students included Gladys and Russell E. Chester , John Charuk , Georges Codling , Arthur Davison , Jean Deslauriers , Conrad Letendre , Lucien Martin , Roland Poisson , Ruth Pryce , Marielle Provost and Rhoda Simpson .

Couture built more than two hundred violins in its life, including copies of the instruments by Jacques Thibaud , Adolfo Betti , Jan Kubelík , Max Rosen and Eugène Ysaÿe . At the Wembley Expositions in 1924 and 1925, he won bronze medals with his instruments.