Ingried Boussaroque (Ingried Boussaroque)
Ingried Boussaroque has been actively performing in Montreal for more than fifteen years as a singer, a musician and an actress.
She is the artistic director for La Mandragore, a Montreal ensemble specialized in the old European and Mediterranean repertoire. La Mandragore has won several awards in Quebec, such the World Music Concert of the Year Opus award (season 2011-12) for its Convivencia live performance, with the eponymous album having been nominated in the Best album - World Music category by the Quebec Showbusiness Productors Association in 2011.
Ingried sings and plays for other ensembles, such as the Montreal based Souk d’érable and the Duo Diaphane, and the UK based Trîles. In 2013, she created a solo concert of Women Songs, and has been touring it since, in Canada, Scandinavia and UK.
Her passion for all aspects of singing, has led Ingried to study classical techniques in Montreal and Paris, as well as in Germany with Barbara Schlick. She has pursued her education in Arab, Gypsy, Yiddish and Flamenco singing all over the world. More recently, funding from the Canada Arts Council and the Quebec Arts Council allowed her to study Scandinavian and Scottish Music. She discovered “kulning” in Denmark with Helle Thun, and Gaelic singing with renowned singers Christine Primrose and Kenna Campbell Kennedy in Scotland.
Ingried graduated in piano interpretation from the Vincent d'Indy School of Music. She also plays numerous wind instruments and she has studied the nay with Sami Rizkallah and Dr. A.J. Racy. She discovered the kantele –a Finnish zither- in 2013, and after some training in Finland, made it one of her main instruments.
Ingried teaches private students and groups and give workshops all over the world. She has been a choir director in Montreal, a guest teacher in the Odense and Århus Conservatories (Denmark), and an Artistic leader at Ethno Denmark.