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Vincent Lauzer

Hailed for his athletic and virtuoso playing and for his sensitive interpretations, recorder player Vincent Lauzer leads an active career as a performer, artistic director, and teacher. He is the artistic director of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, works with Arion Baroque Orchestra to develop programs for young audiences and, since November 2022, he has been the artistic co-director of the Montreal Baroque Festival. In October 2018, his recording of Vivaldi's concertos with Arion Baroque Orchestra was awarded a Diapason d'Or by the famous French magazine Diapason.

He is the winner of several prizes in national and international competitions, including the 2015 Fernand Lindsay Career Award. He was named Révélation Radio-Canada in 2013-2014 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year at the 2012 Opus Awards. In 2012, he won First Prize at the Canadian Music Competition’s Stepping Stone and the Career Development Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto.

Vincent is a member of Flûte Alors! and regularly performs as a soloist with Arion Baroque Orchestra, La Bande Montréal Baroque, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Les Violons du Roy. He has played in various series and festivals in Canada and in the United States as well as in Mexico, France, Germany, Spain and Belgium.

Vincent teaches at McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, the CAMMAC music camp, the Outaouais Recorder Society, and the Toronto Early Music Players Organization.

Mark Edwards

First prize winner in the Musica Antiqua Bruges International Harpsichord Competition, Canadian harpsichordist and organist Mark Edwards is recognized for his captivating performances, bringing the listener “to new and unpredictable regions, using all of the resources of his instrument, […] of his virtuosity, and of his imagination” (La Libre Belgique). He is Associate Professor of Harpsichord at Oberlin Conservatory.

He has given solo performances at a number of prominent festivals and concert series, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival, and Bozar (Brussels). He has had concerto performances with a number of award-winning ensembles, including Il Gardellino (Belgium), Neobarock (Germany), and the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and he collaborates regularly with Les Boréades de Montréal and Les Délices (Cleveland). His début solo CD, Orpheus Descending, was released in 2017 on the early-music.com label and was reviewed warmly. 

Mark is the recipient of academic grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he earned his Bachelor of Music with highest distinction, and completed graduate degrees at McGill University and the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. His former teachers include Robert Hill, William Porter, and David Higgs. In 2021, he received a PhD from Leiden University after successfully defending his dissertation titled “Moving Early Music: Improvisation and the Work-Concept in Seventeenth-Century French Keyboard Performance.”