Born in Montréal, oboist Christopher Palameta performs with many of Europe’s finest period ensembles. With these orchestras, he has toured on five continents and recorded over sixty discs for the Erato, Sony BMG, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Ramée, Pentatone, CPO, BIS, Alpha, Naxos, ATMA Classique, and Analekta labels. An ardent defender of unexplored repertoire for the […]
Chloé Dominguez is a passionate chamber musician and one of today’s most versatile cellists. She has performed regularly at numerous international festivals and recorded for ATMA Classique, Oxingale Records and Espace 21. In addition to her solo cello position with the Orchestre classique de Montréal, she is an enthusiastic contemporary music performer who has participated […]
A cellist “with a rich imagination and a keen mind” (Diapason), Cameron Crozman is the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts 2021 Virginia Parker Prize and CBC/Radio-Canada’s 2019-2020 Classical Revelation. He appears in recital and as a soloist in major concert halls (Paris Philharmonie, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, and Toronto’s Koerner Hall, among […]
A cornerstone of Montréal’s music scene for over forty years, Arion Baroque Orchestra is a pioneer in Quebec and Canada in the world of early music on period instruments. Under the artistic direction of conductor and bassoonist Mathieu Lussier since 2019, Arion presents a series of concerts featuring internationally renowned guest conductors and soloists. Founded […]
Originally from Montréal, tenor Antonio Figueroa began his career with the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal. His numerous awards include, notably, the International Vocal Art Institute’s Silverman Prize, awarded for his performance of Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail). His successful debut in the role of Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles) at the Opéra […]
Concertmaster of the Orchestre symphonique de Laval, member of the Quatuor Molinari and the Quatuor Voxopuli, Antoine Bareil is justly portrayed as a charismatic musician by The Montreal Gazette. In 2001, an impressed jury unanimously awards Antoine Bareil the Prix avec grande distinction du Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec, along with his […]
Antoine Bélanger has sung an impressive number of roles in Europe, the United States as well as in Canada with Opéra de Montréal, Opéra de Québec, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Calgary Opera, Vancouver Opera and Saskatoon Opera. His diversified repertoire includes Faust, Don José (Carmen), Werther, Alfredo (La traviata), Rodolfo (La bohème), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Roméo […]
A graduate of the Conservatoires de musique du Québec, Annie Gadbois continued her training in music at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She obtained a master’s degree in performance and an Artist Diploma. She has received numerous scholarships from the Ministère des affaires culturelles du Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts, as well […]
Flute player Anne Thivierge has a master’s from the Université de Montréal, where she studied flute with Lise Daoust. She then specialized in baroque transverse flute with Marc Hantaï in Paris, as well as with Barthold Kuijken and Frank Theuns at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she graduated magna cum laude with a […]
Amanda Keesmaat is the director of Space Time Continuo and principal cello with Arion Baroque Orchestra, a regular musician with Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal (SMAM), Clavecin en concert and an original member of Skye Consort. Amanda has also toured with Les Violons du Roy (Québec), Pacific Baroque Orchestra (Vancouver) and Tafelmusik (Toronto). Recently, […]
