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Today is a very special episode for me because we have with us, the inimitable Dr. Renee-Paule Gauthier, Violinist, Performance & Life Coach for Musicians, Host of the Mind Over Finger Podcast

She is a passionate performer, teacher, and high-performance coach whose career has taken her across the United States and Canada as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and clinician.  Dr. Gauthier performs with some of Chicago's finest ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony and the Chicago Lyric Opera orchestras, Music of the Baroque, and the Chicago Philharmonic.

She blogs about creating a meaningful practice at her website, Mind Over Finger, and hosts the Mind Over Finger podcast.  One of the most popular classical music shows, The Mind Over Finger Podcast offers discussions on mindful music-making, efficient practice, and building a purposeful career with the performers, pedagogues, and innovators who are shaping the classical music world today.  Dr. Gauthier presents masterclasses and clinics on the topics of mindful practice, audition preparation, and anxiety management to audiences across the world.  

An accomplished concert artist, Renée-Paule Gauthier was mentioned as "one of the best violinists of her generation" in the book Violin Virtuosos, from Paganini to the 21st Century.  Dr. Gauthier has won awards in several competitions, including the exclusive three-year loan of the Taft Stradivari violin through the 2009 edition of the Canada Council for the Arts' Musical Instrument Bank Competition.  She made her Kennedy Center solo debut in April 2014.  She was Concertmaster of the New World Symphony, in the first violin section of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Canada, Assistant Concertmaster of the Calgary Philharmonic, and is the Founder and former Artistic Director of the Rendez-vous Musical de Laterrière, a chamber music festival in the province of Québec.