Baroque

Baroque goes back, way back to the 50’s. Not the 1950’s, the 1650’s! Rich melodic music from 1600 to 1750: concertos from Venice, cantatas from the churches of Leipzig and harpsichord suites from the halls of Versailles. Grand, opulent, cerebral, bold and uplifting. Only on GALAXIE will you find a 24/7 channel devoted entirely to baroque. Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and more.

One of Canada’s busiest and most versatile musicians, violist Guylaine Lemaire performs regularly as a chamber musician and as an orchestral player. A member of the Chamber Players of Canada, she has appeared at virtually every major Canadian festival including the Festival de Lanaudière, Festival of the Sound, Festival de musique de Lachine, Musique de chambre à Ste-Pétronille, Festival international du Domaine Forget, Festival Canada at the National Arts Centre, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. She is heard regularly on CBC Radio and Radio-Canada.

Guylaine Lemaire has recorded on many different labels and her chamber music recordings have all received strong critical acclaim. Her most recent recording, Mozart Piano Concertos with Janina Fialkowska has received unanimous praise and was selected as one of the top CD’s of the year by the Ottawa Citizen. It has so far received excellent reviews around the world from BBC Music Magazine, CBC’s Sound Advice, the Toronto Star and the Montreal Gazette. She has performed across Canada and around the world on first violin, second violin and viola with the National Arts Center Orchestra, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and the chamber orchestra, Thirteen Strings. She has also been a member of the Montreal Baroque Orchestra.

Her viola was made by one of the great Italian luthiers and teachers of the 20th century, Otello Bignami. He was so proud of this instrument he signed it in three places including two places where he inlayed his initials in gold.