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Hold a string to bow it and slide to change the note. Move faster for a louder tone, wiggle for vibrato, tap for pizzicato. Strings, left to right: G, D, A, E.
Playing on Guy Harrison violin (2020) and François Malo bow.
About
Vincent Pham is a 16-year-old violinist from Ottawa, Ontario, and a student in the International Baccalaureate program. He is in the studio of Prof. Michael Van der Sloot and the University of Ottawa Pre-College Program, is enrolled at the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau with Marjolaine Lambert and Tobie Slippert, and holds the Associate Diploma (ARCT) from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
In 2025 he placed third in the Strings 15 to 18 category of the Canadian Music Competition, competing at age 15. He has appeared as soloist and concertmaster with the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau and the Vyhovskyi Senior Strings, and plays chamber music in a quartet that won the Aruna-Rupa Anantaraman Trophy for Senior Chamber in 2026. In summer 2026 he attended Juilliard Summer Music in New York, with private lessons, masterclasses and a highlight concert performance.
For more than five years, Vincent has performed in concerts around Ottawa that have raised over $20,000 for local food banks and refugee initiatives. Away from music, he races dragon boats and is training for the Ottawa Marathon.
- $20,000+Raised for local food banks and refugee initiatives
- 5+Years performing benefit concerts around Ottawa
- 13String orchestras led as concertmaster
Recognition & Distinctions
Major Competition Results
- 3rd Place, Strings 15 to 18, age 15Canadian Music Competition (2025)
- 1st Place, SoloCanadian International Music Festival (2025 and 2026)
- Best Musicianship Trophy and Kinsmen Club Shield Open Strings Solo TrophyNCR Kiwanis Music Festival (2025 and 2026)
Scholarship & Bursaries
- Marion Ruddick and Glebe St James AwardsLaurentian Chapter I.O.D.E., Provincial Rep scholarships (2026)
- Top String Student ScholarshipConservatoire de musique de Gatineau (2025)
- BursariesYoung String Performers' Foundation and Conservatoire de musique du Quebec (2022)
Training & Summer Music
- Highlight Concert PerformanceJuilliard Summer Music, New York (2026)
- Associate Diploma (ARCT), Violin PerformanceRoyal Conservatory of Music (2025)
- Summer ProgramsDomaine Forget de Charlevoix and University of Ottawa Summer String Academy
On stage
- National Arts CentreOttawa, 2025
- Ottawa Kiwanis Music Festival Highlight ConcertAlgonquin Commons Theatre, Ottawa
- ChamberFestOttawa, selected as a Rising Star
- ORMTA First Class Honors Concert
- Domaine Forget de CharlevoixCharlevoix, Quebec
- Sherbrooke and MontrealQuebec
- Performances for the Mayor of Ottawa and the Ambassador of Poland
- Carnegie HallNew York
- Peter Jay Sharp TheatreJuilliard School at Lincoln Center, during Juilliard Summer Music, 2026
- Concert halls in Vienna and Salzburg2023, including an international masterclass
CBC Featured in a program broadcast nationally in October 2026
Training
- Studio
- Prof. Van der Sloot, University of Ottawa. Solo and chamber principal violinist in the University of Ottawa Pre-College Program.
- Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau
- Studies with Marjolaine Lambert and Tobie Slippert. Soloist and concertmaster, and the youngest musician ever invited into the college-level chamber groups.
- Royal Conservatory of Music
- Associate Diploma (ARCT) in Violin Performance, 2025.
- Juilliard Summer Music, 2026
- Private lessons and masterclasses in New York with Ron Copes, Stella Chen, Curtis Stewart and Juliette Kang. Performed at the Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Lincoln Center, and in the program's highlight concert.
- Summer programs
- Domaine Forget de Charlevoix. University of Ottawa Summer String Academy. Masterclass in Austria.
- Masterclasses
- Stella Chen, Ron Copes, Juliette Kang, Curtis Stewart, Lara St. John, Andrew Wan, Jonathan Crow, Karen Gomyo, Timothy Chooi, Kerson Leong, Yosuke Kawasaki, Ute Hasenauer, Marjolaine Lambert, Gwen Hoebig and others.
- Vyhovskyi Strings
- Studies with Serhii and Olena Vyhovskyi, concertmaster of the Vyhovskyi Senior Strings.
- Ensembles
- Concertmaster of the Conservatoire de musique de Gatineau orchestra, Concertmaster of the Vyhovskyi Senior Strings Ensemble, and concertmaster with thirteen string orchestras.
Watch
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Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
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Bach
Chaconne, Partita No. 2 in D minor
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Prokofiev
Chamber music
Beyond the violin
Vincent has raced dragon boats since 2025 and won gold and silver medals in August 2026. He is now training for the Ottawa Marathon in May 2027.
He also builds software and does research. He has made a multi-level tank game, a statistics and regression grapher, and a geometry calculator, and produced an educational video on the human immune response.
Tank Domination, Statistics calculator and grapher, Geometry calculator, Immune response video
Contact
For concerts, collaborations and press, send Vincent a message.