Oliver Jones’ six-decade musical career has been rich and varied. His classical music education was followed by stints at Montréal’s Café St-Michel, enthralling patrons with his acrobatic piano stunts. From his teens to his early twenties, Jones could play anything from swing to rockn-roll; in those days playing jazz was not considered a viable career. […]
Founded in 2006 and directed by oboist Christopher Palameta, Notturna is a chamber collective whose “spirited and sensitive playing” (Early Music America) draws on the transparency and expressiveness of early wind instruments to paint fresh pictures of an unexplored historical repertoire. Notturna has toured extensively in North and South America and Europe, assembling vivid and […]
Noëlla Huet holds a master’s degree in singing and leads a successful career, performing a varied repertoire ranging from the baroque period to the 21st century. In opera, she has starred in the role of Mme de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Ottavia in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea and Kabanicha in Janaček’s Katia Kabanová, among […]
A professional organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist, Nathan Mondry has carved an international reputation as an improviser and composer and is currently a D.M.A. student in the Keyboard Studies program at Cornell University. After completing a bachelor’s degree in piano performance at the University of Michigan, he earned a master’s degree in harpsichord performance and an […]
Critically acclaimed mezzo-soprano Michèle Losier distinguishes herself on international opera stages with her rich voice, masterful musicality, and stupendous stage presence. She has distinguished herself with Mozart’s opera roles (Così fan tutte, Idomeneo, La clemenza di Tito) as well with roles from Richard Strauss’s operas (Der Rosenkavalier, Ariadne auf Naxos) and she mostly succeeded in […]
Mélisande McNabney performs keyboard music of all periods, on harpsichord, piano, fortepiano, and organ. Very active on the concert scene, Mélisande has performed solo recitals across Canada and Europe, notably at Early Music Vancouver, the Festival International de Lanaudière, Clavecin en Concert and Bourgie Hall in Montréal. She was invited as a soloist with leading […]
Two-time Juno Award–winning conductor, composer, and recorder and flute soloist Matthias Maute has achieved an international reputation. He was named artistic director of the Bach Society of Minnesota in 2016 and of the professional choir Ensemble vocal Arts-Québec, today known as Ensemble ArtChoral, in 2019. Impressed by his artistic approach, The New York Times described […]
Artistic Director of Arion Baroque Orchestra since June 2019, and Artistic Director of Domaine Forget de Charlevoix since 2022, Mathieu Lussier has energetically and passionately promoted the modern and baroque bassoon as solo instruments for more than two decades throughout North America, South America, and Europe. He also devotes considerable time to chamber music as […]
Since graduating in 2019 with a master’s degree in early music, Marie Nadeau-Tremblay has established herself on the Canadian scene as an emerging young baroque violinist. In 2019, she landed an unprecedented four awards at the Mathieu-Duguay Early Music Competition, including First Prize. Named Radio-Canada’s 2021–2022 Classical Revelation and winner of the 2022 Discovery of […]
Soprano Marianne Lambert was a finalist for the Opus Prize for best album of the year in the Classical-romantic music category for Mélodies Passagères (2021), recipient of the Opus Prize for Best regional concert of the year (2018), of the An die Musik Recital Prize at the 25th Clermont-Ferrand International Singing Competition (2017), as well […]
