Tanya LaPerrière

She has several years of experience in chamber music, notably with the chamber orchestra Mgr-A.-M. Parent, winner of several competitions (Vancouver, Boston, Toronto, Orlando). Due to the quality of her playing and her musical involvement in this group she won the 2003 Quebec Lieutenant-Governor's Award.  Having long been inspired to discover the baroque violin, she showed up in the summer of 2004 at the Early Music Academy of Quebec, with the professor Chantal Remillard, and it was nothing less than the beginning of a great love.  She decided to dedicate herself completely to the baroque violin and thus finished her College Preparatory Diploma in this instrument at the Cégep Marie-Victorin in Montréal, with the instructor Claude Deltell.  In 2006, under a full scholarship, she began her baroque violin studies at McGill University in Montreal with Chantal Rémillard. Founding member of the group The Kids, one can also hear her with the well-known Arion and Caprice Ensembles.  She has recorded under the Atma and Analekta labels and participated in Caprice's recent recording of Gloria! Vivaldi's Angels, winning a Juno award.  Baroque music, she says, is nothing less than a confession, or rather, that is exactly what it is--it speaks!