Guy Pelletier
Flute
Guy Pelletier, flutes, has many varied experiences: soloist, chamber musician and improviser. He is comfortable in all musical idioms and has played with contemporary, classical, jazz, rock and world-music groups. For the past several years, he has taken a very serious interest in flutes from other cultures such as the Indian bansuri, the Chinese dize, the Arabic nay and the Bolivian quena.
Guy recorded for dozens of Canadian, American, French, as well as German radio concerts and performances in addition to close to forty CDs of various productions. He was a member of Montreal’s Nouvel Ensemble Moderne contemporary music ensemble for 17 years and the woodwind quintet Pentaèdre for 14 years. Aside from Transmission, he is also now a member of Saïd Mesnaoui’s Moroccan music group and of the Traces tandem founded in 1990 by himself and percussionist Julien Grégoire. He teaches flute at Montreal’s Concordia University and at Trois-Rivières College, east of Montrea.
