), in the Netherlands (Utrecht, Amsterdam, Leiden, Leeuwarden), in the USA (Early Music Societies of San Francisco, San Diego, Arizona, Colorado Springs, Seattle, Berkeley, Boston, New York, Amherst Early Music Festival, etc.) and in Canada (Festival de musique ancienne de Sillery, Festival de Lanaudière, Elora Festival, Early Music Vancouver, Early Music of the Isles in Victoria, University of Calgary Celebrity

Series, Edmonton Chamber Music Society, Domaine Forget, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, etc.).

Les Voix Humaines are renowned for their spectacular arrangements of a wide variety of music for two viols and their brilliant performances of contemporary music commissioned by the duo. Their numerous CDs on ATMA, Naxos, and CBC Records labels have received critical acclaim and include the complete Poeticall Musicke of Tobias Hume, The 4 Seasons of Christopher Simpson, the complete Le Nymphe di Rheno of Johannes Schenck (Diapason d¹Or), two discs of French viol music (Marais and Sainte-Colombe), and several discs with soprano Suzie LeBlanc and countertenor Daniel Taylor, three of which were awarded prizes.

Susie Napper

Cellist, gambist, continuo player par excellence, Susie Napper is known for her colorful, even controversial performances of both solo and chamber repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries. Having spent her childhood in an artistic milieu in London, in her late teens she moved to New York to study at the Juilliard School, then to the Paris Conservatoire. San Francisco followed, where, after a foray into contemporary music, she co-founded and directed the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Since then she has spent two decades with a foot on either side of the Atlantic as principal cellist with several groups including Stradivaria in France, the Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal and Les Boréades in Montréal, and the Trinity Consort of Portland. Her concert tours have taken her as far afield as China, Japan, New Zealand, India, the Middle East, as well as most European countries. As a member of the very active viol duo Les Voix Humaines, she has discovered a new facet of musical expression in the form of musical arranging, thus providing an endlessly fascinating new repertoire for two viols.

Her recordings, which include most of the known repertoire for two viols, can be heard on Harmonia Mundi, EMI, Erato, ADDA, CBC Records, Naxos, and most notably on the ATMA label.

But her true vocation is not on the concert stage or the recording studio. The kitchen is the center of her domain, where she creates dishes both colorful and controversial for her own pleasure as well as that of her guests.

Margaret Little

Margaret Little was born and raised in Montreal in a musical family, playing violin, piano, recorder and guitar as a child. She discovered the viola da gamba at the age of eleven and fell in love instantly with the instrument and early music repertoire. After studying science and then visual arts, she came back to music and the viol in her early twenties.

Margaret has been performing since 1975 as a soloist and a chamber musician on the viola da gamba and baroque viola with various groups including the Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Idées Heureuses, Arion, Musica Divina, and she founded the viola da gamba duo "Les Voix Humaines" with Susie Napper over fifteen years ago. She has been invited to play with many early music groups across Canada and the USA as a gambist, baroque violinist and violist (such as Rebel, Four Nations, Trinity Consort, Aradia, The Publick Musick, Les Boréades, Les Violons du Roy, etc.) and has toured in

North America, Mexico and Europe. She can be heard regularly on the SRC and CBC networks. She has also performed for Radio-France, the Spanish radio and the BBC. She has recorded for Damzell, UMMUS, Naxos, CBC Records, and mostly for ATMA.

Margaret Little teaches the viola da gamba and baroque ensembles at the Université de Montréal and at the CAMMAC Lake Mac Donald Music Centre.

January, 2002

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