Guy Traficante

Guy Traficante is the Principal of the Algoma Conservatory and an instructor of violin and youth orchestra at the Algoma Conservatory String Academy. In addition he is the Artistic Director of Algoma Conservatory Concerts, conductor of the Algoma Chamber Orchestra and the coordinator of the Kiwanis Music Festival. He relocated to Sault Ste. Marie on a grant from the Ontario Arts Council to teach at Algoma Conservatory and Algoma University and to serve as concertmaster of the Sault Symphony. Before coming to Sault Ste. Marie he was an instructor at McGill University as assistant to Mauricio Fuks for several years. This provided a rare opportunity to work closely with this renowned violin pedagogue - attending most of his student's lessons and then providing them with an additional weekly lesson. Maurico Fuks is now an instructor at the renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. 

In addition Mr. Traficante was concertmaster of the McGill Symphony and Montreal Chamber Orchestra. His studies included the North Carolina School of the Arts, Cleveland Institute, McGill University, Meadowmount School, and the Banff Centre. Former instructors include some of the finest in North America: Lorand Fenyves in Toronto, Sydney Harth and Franco Gulli at Banff, Paul Makanowitzky and Ivan Galamian at Meadowmount, Mauricio Fuks in Montreal, David Cerone in Cleveland and Vartan Manoogian with masterclasses with Joseph Gingold in North Carolina. 

In 1987 he took on the duties as Principal at the Algoma Conservatory of Music. He championed considerable expansion of the Resident Musician program to locate professional performers and teachers to Sault Ste. Marie. This program has already resulted in the relocation of 14 outstanding individuals and has changed the music landscape of our community. These individuals provide a standard of excellence for music performance and teaching which is seldom found in a community the size of Sault Ste. Marie. In addition in 1991 he founded Algoma Conservatory Concerts which now presents an annual series of concerts with some of the finest international and Canadian touring soloists and ensembles.