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Musique Royale welcomes two of Canada’s most celebrated early music performers - recorder virtuoso Vincent Lauzer and harpsichordist Dorothea Ventura - to perform a selection of Bach’s gorgeous suites, arranged specially for recorder and harpsichord. Join Musique Roy ale at the spectacular outdoor setting of the Lightship Brewery with a panoramic view of the Lunenburg harbour to accompany the performance, or take a pilgrimage drive up the River Denys Mountain to hear Vincent and Dorothea at historic St Margaret of Scotland Church in Cape Breton!

About the Artists

Vincent Lauzer, recorder

Révélation Radio-Canada 2013-2014 and Breakthrough Artist of the Year (2012 Opus Awards), recorder player Vincent Lauzer graduated from McGill University where he studied with Matthias Maute. He is the artistic director of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival in New-Brunswick. In October 2018, his most recent recording of Vivaldi’s concertos with Arion Baroque Orchestra was awarded a Diapason d’Or by the famous French magazine Diapason.

Winner of several prizes in national and international competitions, he has been awarded the Fernand Lindsay Career Award, a scholarship given to a young promising Canadian musician for the development of an international career. Vincent received the Béatrice-Kennedy-Bourbeau Award at the Prix d’Europe 2015. In 2012, he won the First Prize at the Stepping Stone of the Canadian Music Competition and the Career Development Award from the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto. In 2009, he was awarded the First Prize and the Audience Appreciation Prize in the Montreal International Recorder Competition.

Vincent is a member of Flûte Alors! and Ensemble La Cigale, two ensembles with whom he has toured extensively in Canada and abroad. Vincent regularly performs as a soloist with Arion Baroque Orchestra, La Bande Montréal Baroque, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 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 the Université du Québec à Montréal, at CAMMAC music camp, for the Montreal Recorder Society, for the Toronto Early Music Players Organization and at Université de Montréal’s École des jeunes.

Dorothea Ventura, harpsichord

Dorothéa Ventura is very active in the Quebec artistic scene. A versatile artist, she performs as a singer, harpsichordist, dancer, actress, choral conductor and vocal coach with the most prestigious musical ensembles in Quebec, Canada and Europe. Of the 500 or so productions she has been a part of, many have won Prix Opus, Prix Juno and ADISQ nominations. Her discography includes some fifteen recordings as harpsichordist, soloist and chorister.

She is the new artistic director of the Quebec early music ensemble Les Idées heureuses, which is completing its 37th season. She co-founded the Ensemble ALKEMIA, promoting the exploration of a cappella vocal music, a finalist in the Early Music America Competition in New York and nominated for the 2014 and 2015 Prix Opus for Best Concert of the Year. With violinist Olivier Brault, she collaborated on the creation of the ensemble Sonate 1704, aimed at discovering the repertoire of violin sonatas in 18th-century France.

She directs the Opus Novum choir and sits on the artistic committee of La Nef, teaches harpsichord and basso continuo at Université de Montréal, teaches harpsichord at Cégep de Trois-Rivières, and is a regular teacher at Camp musical CAMMAC. A private vocal coach for professional singers, notably at the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal and McGill University, she was musical assistant to conductors Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Hervé Niquet and Andrew Parrott on several Baroque opera productions at the Opera de Montréal and Toronto’s Opera Atelier. Following solid training in classical, modern and baroque dance, she joined the baroque dance company Les Jardins chorégraphiques in 2009. As an actress, Dorothéa Ventura has appeared in several short films and plays, including the 150 performances of La mélodie du bonheur, directed by Denise Filiatrault, from 2010 to 2015.