Anne Azéma is a French-born soprano, scholar, and stage director. She is currently artistic director of the Boston Camerata. She has been an important or leading singer of early music since 1993. She has created and directed programs for the Boston Camerata and is also noted as a music scholar. She is perhaps best known for performing music from the Middle Ages, lute songs from the Renaissance period, Baroque sacred music, Shaker song, and contemporary music theater. She is also a music educator and a researcher. She has performed in Japan, Germany, the US, Australia and elsewhere.
Angèle Dubeau, is a retired Canadian classical violinist. She has devoted a large part of her career to making classical music accessible to a wide audience and also frequently played works by contemporary composers. In October 2024, she announced that due to nerve damage in her right hand, she was no longer able to play the violin.
Françoise Atlan is a French singer and ethnomusicologist, born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Narbonne, France on 27 July 1964. Her father was a lawyer and native of Béjaïa, Algeria, and her mother was a pianist and a lyrical singer.
Vincent Dumestre is a French lutenist. In 1997 he founded the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique.
Marie-Nicole Lemieux, C.M., C.Q. is a Canadian contralto. In 2000, she became the first Canadian to win first prize at the Queen Elizabeth International Music Competition in Belgium.
The Orchestre Métropolitain is a symphony orchestra in Montréal, Québec, formed in 1981. It performs primarily in the Montreal Symphony House at Place des Arts but also at Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier and Théâtre Maisonneuve. Outside the city centre the OM plays in Saint-Laurent, Outremont, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, Saint-Léonard, Verdun, Ahuntsic, Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Pointe-Claire.
Pierre Rolland C.M. was a Canadian oboist, english horn player, radio broadcaster, music critic, music educator, and arts administrator. He is the father of cellist Sophie Rolland and violinist Brigitte Rolland.
Constantinople is a Montreal-based early music and middle eastern music ensemble. The group was formed in 1988 by brothers Kiya Tabassian (setar) and Ziya Tabassian (tombak). The sétar and tombak are complemented by viola da gamba, renaissance cornett, and daf.
Max Pinchard was a 20th-century French composer and musicologist.
René Dumesnil was a French physician, literary critic and musicologist.
Catherine Cessac is a French musicologist and music publisher.
François Porcile is a French film director, essayist, film historian and musicologist.
Renaud Machart is a French journalist, music critic, radio producer and music producer.
Jean-Pierre Ouvrard was a French musicologist, music educator, researcher at the François Rabelais University and choral conductor.
Lorraine Vaillancourt, is a Canadian pianist and conductor living in Quebec.
Caroline Planté is a Canadian flamenco guitarist and composer. Her 2010 flamenco album 8REFLEXIONES was the first to be composed and performed by a woman guitarist.
Patrick Cohën-Akenine is a French classical violinist and conductor.
David Kessler was a French senior official. He served as Culture and Communication Adviser to the President of France from 2012 to 2014, and also served on numerous boards of directors.
Monique Desroches is a Canadian ethnomusicologist from Quebec who specializes in the music of the West Indies and the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean.
Anousha Nazari is an Iranian mezzo-soprano classical singer born on January 6, 1990 in Sari, Iran.
