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 a member of the ensemble Pentaèdre and is Associate Professor at the Music Faculty of the Université de Montréal.
Previous appointments include Associate Conductor of Les Violons du Roy from 2012 to 2018, where Lussier led the orchestra in over 100 concerts in Quebec and on tour in greater Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Brazil, collaborating with artists such as Marc-André Hamelin, Philippe Jaroussky, Alexandre Tharaud, Jeremy Denk, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Julia Lezhneva, Anthony Marwood, and Karina Gauvin. From 2008 to 2014 he served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, and has also conducted many other Canadian ensembles such as the symphony orchestras of Montréal, Québec, Trois-Rivières, Sherbrooke, Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo, I Musici de Montréal, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra.
His numerous solo recordings include over a dozen bassoon concertos (Mozart, Vivaldi, Fasch, Graupner, Telemann, and Corrette), an album of bassoon sonatas by Boismortier, three of music for solo bassoon by François Devienne, one dedicated to the music of Eugène Jancourt and two albums of wind music by Gossec and Méhul.
