Geneviève Blanchard, born in Canada, is a graduate of the Paris National Conservatory of Music. She also studied at the Musik Hochschule in Freiburg, Germany, and at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague where she specialized in Baroque flute and Baroque performance practice with Wilbert Hazelzet. For many years, she served as Assistant-Principal Flute in the Calgary Philharmonic and was a member of The Musick Masters, a Vancouver-based Baroque ensemble. Currently living in Israel, she co-directs the concert series Sounds & Words from the Baroque and teaches at the Israel Conservatory of Music (Tel Aviv). Geneviève is also a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique.