Canadian conductor Michel Brousseau is presently Conductor and Artistic Director of the Ottawa Classical Choir, the New World Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Les Chanteurs de Sainte-Thérèse, and Choeur Tremblant.

He began his piano studies at age nine, but quickly developed a passion for symphonic music. At fourteen he switched to conducting and studied under Maestro Raffi Armenian. He graduated from the Montreal Music Conservatory, winning First Prize in piano performance, before beginning further conducting studies with Otto Werner-Müller, Milen Nachev, Valery Vachev and Aldo Faldi. He has conducted in Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and the United States, as well as in his native Canada.

Though devoted to all the classics, Michel's passion is opera, and in recent years he has channelled his artistic energy in that direction, conducting La Traviata, Rigoletto, Otello, and Il Trovatore (Verdi), I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni), Tosca, La Boheme, and Madama Butterfly (Puccini), Bluebeard's Castle (Bartok), Samson and Delilah (Saint-Saëns), Carmen (Bizet), and Cosi fan tutte (Mozart) in opera houses such as the Donetsk Opera House and Kharkov Opera House in Ukraine, The Luigi Mancelli Opera House in Italy, and the Burgas Opera House in Bulgaria. In 2005, he was finalist in the International "Luigi Mancinelli" Opera Conducting Competition in Italy. He was awarded the Grand Prize for Regional Artistic Creation in the Laurentians by the Quebec Council for the Arts in 2006, and he debuted with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra of Bulgaria for a performance of Puccini's Suor Angelica and Messa di Gloria in June 2008.

It is to Michel that the Choir owes its association with the almost forgotten music of Theodore Dubois (1837-1924.) Through most of the 20th century Dubois was less known than his great contemporaries Faure, Saint-Saëns and Gounod, despite a prolific output of orchestral and operatic works, chamber music and concertos. In 2007, while in France visiting Dubois's great-grandson, Michel rediscovered many works that had been lost for almost a century. He made it his mission to resurrect these works and give them the prominence they deserve.

Michel has always promoted young musicians, as Artistic Coordinator of the Montreal Music Conservatory (1995-1999) and more recently through the Laurentians Arts Foundation, which promotes the arts in the youth community.

A recording by Michel and Maria Knapik showcasing the most beautiful Slavic and Italian arias for soprano and orchestra will be released shortly.