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 Montreal concert season offers a unique opportunity for an international array of instrumentalists and singers to explore unusual repertoire that includes virtuoso viols. The duo is regularly joined by some of Montreal’s finest young gambists to form the Voix Humaines Consort specializing in the vast 17th-century repertoire for viol consort.
Les Voix humaines has recorded over 20 CDs, several of which have received critical acclaim and prizes. They include the complete Poeticall Musicke of Tobias Hume, The 4 Seasons of Christopher Simpson, the complete Le Nymphe di Rheno of Johannes Schenck (Diapason d’Or), several discs with soprano Suzie LeBlanc and countertenor Daniel Taylor, and a Telemann disc with renowned Belgian flutist Barthold Kuijken. Their recording of the complete Concerts a deux violes esgales by Sainte-Colombe (4 double CDs) is a world premiere. Les Voix humaines record for the ATMA label.
The duo has performed at many of the most important music festivals in North America, Mexico, and Europe including the Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music Vancouver, the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Mexico, the Brighton International Music Festival, England, the Festival Oude Musiek, Holland, and the Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague. Touring regularly in Europe and North America, they made their debut in Australia and New Zealand in 2005.