Biography

His experiences are many and varied : soloist, chamber musician and improviser. He is comfortable in all musical idioms and has played with contemporary, classical, jazz, rock and word-music groups.

Mr. Pelletier has taken part in numerous premieres as well as in many tours of North America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. He has also recorded for many dozens of Canadian, American, French, as well as German radio concerts and performances in addition to more than fourthy CD’s of various productions.

He was a member of Montreal’s Nouvel Ensemble Moderne contemporary music ensemble, for 17 years and of the woodwind quintet Pentaèdre for 14 years. He is now member of Ensemble Transmission, sextet of contemporary music and plays in Expresso trio (jazz Brazilian music). Mr. Pelletier is also very active as a studio musician in Montreal and he teaches flute at Montreal’s Concordia University and at Trois-Rivières College, east of Montreal.

Lastly, since many 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.