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UPCOMING / CONCERTS À VENIR
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2024
NOV / 02
14:00
ABBAYE SAINT-Benoit-lac
Qc, Canada
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
REQUIEM DE FAURÉ
+ autres oeuvres
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2024
NOV / 06-07
20:00
Québec
Qc, Canada
L'ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE QUÉBEC
REQUIEM DE MOZART
+ autres oeuvres
2024
NOV / 10
17:30
HAlifax
NB, Canada
Capella Regalis
MOZART REQUIEM
 
 
2024
DEC / 05
19:30
OTTAwa
on, Canada
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
LE MESSIE de Haendel
 
2024
DEC / 07
14:00
Abbaye Saint-benoit-du-lac
QC, Canada
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
LE MESSIE de Haendel
 
2024
DEC / 08
16:00
Burlington
Vermont, USA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
LE MESSIE de Haendel
 
2024
DEC / 14
20:00
La Prairie
QC, Canada
Choeur Classique de La prairie
HAYDN - Missa in tempore belli
+ Paukenmesse
2025
MAR / 20
20:00
NAMUR
FRANCE
Ensemble Masques
ACIS & GALATÉE
G.F. HANDEL

 

2025
MAR / 27
19:30
OTTAWA
ON, CANADA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
MÉDITATION & LAMENTATIONS
BACH / BUXTEHUDE
2025
MAR / 28
19:30
QUÉBEC
QC, CANADA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
MÉDITATION & LAMENTATIONS
BACH / BUXTEHUDE
2025
MAR / 29
14:00
Abbaye Saint-benoit-du-lac
QC, CANADA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
MÉDITATION & LAMENTATIONS
BACH / BUXTEHUDE
2025
MAR / 30
16:00
BURLINGTON
VERMONT, USA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
MÉDITATION & LAMENTATIONS
BACH / BUXTEHUDE
2025
AVRIL / 04
19:30
MONTRÉAL
QC, CANADA
Ensemble CAPRICE
LA PASSION SELON SAINT JEAN
J.S. Bach
2025
AVRIL / 05
19:30
Québec
QC, CANADA
Ensemble CAPRICE
LA PASSION SELON SAINT JEAN
J.S. Bach
2025
APRIL / 18
19:30
Guelph
on, CANADA
tHe Edison Singers
The Passion According to St.John
J.S. Bach
2025
MAI / 13
20:00
Clermont-Ferrand
FRANCE
Ensemble Masques
ACIS & GALATÉE
G.F. HANDEL

 

2025
JUIN / 01
14:00
Lac-Kénogami
QC, Canada
Philippe Gagné & David Jacques
Chansons espagnoles et latino-américaines des 18e et 19e siècles
2025
JUIN / 19
19:00
Montréal
QC, Canada
Festival Montreal baroque
ODE AU TONNERRE
G.P. TELEMANN

 

2025
AOÛT / 02
14:00
Abbaye Saint-benoit-du-lac
QC, CANADA
L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS
Les Vêpres à la Vierge
Monteverdi

 

2025
NOV / 12
19:30
Montréal
QC, CANADA
Studio de musique ancienne de montréal
D'UN SEUL SOLEIL
Concert intime

 

2026
MARS / 06
19:30
Montréal
QC, CANADA
Ensemble Caprice
Grande messe en do mineur
W.A. Mozart

 

    BIO
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    Tenor Philippe Gagné is praised for his rich expressiveness, refined musicality, remarkable vocal agility, and the beauty of his timbre. A specialist in Baroque repertoire, he stands out particularly in French music of this period and the works of J.S. Bach. His career has taken him to numerous international stages, where he collaborates with renowned ensembles such as Les Talens Lyriques, Tafelmusik, Les Violons du Roy, Les Voix humaines, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Ensemble Masques, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, L’Orchestre Métropolitain, L’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Les Délices, Les Boréades, Blue Heron, L’Harmonie des saisons, Ensemble Caprice, Le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, Ex Tempore, La Bande Montréal Baroque, Clavecin en concert, Mannheimer Hofkapelle, and Apotheosis Orchestra. An exceptional interpreter, he owes his reputation to his expertise, numerous achievements, and steadfast commitment to the Baroque world.

    Recent Highlights

    In March and mai 2025, Philippe Gagné performs in Namur, Belgium and in Clermont-Ferrand, France, in Handel’s Acis & Galatea with Ensemble Masques, before joining L’Harmonie des saisons for a tour dedicated to J.S. Bach and his predecessors, followed by Ensemble Caprice for performances of the Passion According to St. John in Montreal and Quebec City. In December 2024, he takes part in a tour of Handel’s Messiah with L’Harmonie des saisons. In November 2024, he sings Mozart’s Requiem in Quebec City with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec and in Halifax with Capella Regalis. In September 2024, he shines at the Burlington Baroque Festival with Acis & Galatea, Bach’s Magnificat, a Beatles Baroque program, and Monteverdi’s Vespers. In August 2024, he participates in the 31st edition of the Musique et Mémoire Festival (Vosges du Sud) with Ensemble Masques, presenting a selection of French Baroque arias on the theme of sleep and a repeat performance of Acis & Galatea, previously given in June at Cluny Abbey and Hardelot Castle (Pas-de-Calais). In May 2024, he performs F.-J. Gossec’s Grande Messe des morts at Festival Classica with Arion Orchestre Baroque and Le Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal. In April 2024, he takes on the title role in Carissimi’s Jephte with Les Violons du Roy and travels to Bolivia’s Festival des Missions Chiquitos with L’Harmonie des saisons for a program of French court arias. In March 2024, he performs the Evangelist in Bach’s Passion According to St. John on tour with L’Harmonie des saisons, followed by the Passion According to St. Mark in Toronto with the Metropolitan Festival Choir & Baroque Orchestra.

    Other Notable Moments

    In 2023, he is a guest at the Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival, performing Bach cantatas with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra. In March, he joins a concert marking the completion of Year 8 of Bach’s Cantata Cycle with L’Orchestre Métropolitain under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Montreal’s Salle Bourgie. In February, he sings at La Folle Journée de Nantes with Ensemble Masques. In September 2022, he collaborates with Clavecin en concert (conducted by Hervé Niquet) for Charpentier’s Grands Motets. In August 2019, Philippe Gagné performs at the MAfestival in Bruges in a staged production of Rameau’s Pygmalion, following its recording in November 2018 with the Apotheosis Orchestra (conducted by Korneel Bernolet, Ramée/Outhere). In June, he sings at the Cydonia Barocca Festival (Ghent) and the Alter Musik Festival (Regensburg). In 2018, he records Graupner cantatas with Ex Tempore (CPO) in Belgium, performs the title role in Charpentier’s Actéon in Montreal with Clavecin en concert (conducted by Luc Beauséjour), and appears with Les Talens Lyriques (conducted by Christophe Rousset) at the Philharmonie de Paris and Oslo’s Barokkfest Early Music Festival (Rameau and Campra). In 2017, he sings Lidio in the first performance since 1681 of Lorenzani’s Nicandro e Fileno in Montreal (Nouvel Opéra and Les Boréades, ATMA Classique). In 2016, he tours Europe with Ex Tempore (Germany, Netherlands, Belgium) for concerts and recordings (CPO) and wins a JUNO Award for Las Ciudades de Oro with L’Harmonie des saisons (ATMA Classique). In 2014, he wins the Bruce Haynes CBC International Competition, dedicated to Bach, and performs as a soloist on two recordings of Bach’s sacred cantatas with La Bande Montréal Baroque (ATMA Classique).

    His many projects and commitments, past and future, testify to Philippe Gagné’s deep devotion to Baroque music, which he honors with care and elegance.

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    REVIEWS / CRITIQUES
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    THE PASSION ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN, J.S. BACH - ENSEMBLE CAPRICE

    In the absence of staging, which is typical of the oratorio, a narrator is needed—here, the Evangelist—to describe the scenes. Bearing the entire work on his shoulders, tenor Philippe Gagné masterfully meets the challenge of interpreting this demanding yet crucial role. His intention to truly tell a story is clear, with impeccable German diction.
    Alexis Desrosiers-Michaud, panm360.com, La Maison symphonique de Montréal (April 2025)

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    ACIS & GALATEA, G.F. HANDEL - ENSEMBLE MASQUES

    The vocal soloists delivered impressive performances. Philippe Gagné, in the role of Damon, performed his part with warmth and flexibility.”
    klassiekindekapel.be, Belgium (March 2025)

    SOMMEILS - ENSEMBLE MASQUES (FESTIVAL MUSIQUE ET MÉMOIRE / VOSGES DU SUD)

    « A dreamlike universe evoked by the sublime voice of tenor Philippe Gagné. »
    Festival Facebook page, Luxeuil-les-Bains, France (August 2024)

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    ACIS & GALATEA, G.F. HANDEL - ENSEMBLE MASQUES

    « On the other hand, let's salute the commitment of the evening's other tenor, Philippe Gagné, in the role of Damon (...) he comes through the infinite vocalizations of the aria 'Shepherd, what art thou pursuing?'. »
    Ruggero Meli, Baroque News, Château d'Hardelot, France (June 2024))

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    GOSSEC'S MESSE DES MORTS - ARION BAROQUE (FESTIVAL CLASSICA)

    « As for the five soloists, we're particularly impressed by (...) and the eloquent tenor Philippe Gagné. »
    Emmanuel Bernier, La Presse, Montreal (May 2024)

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    (CONCERT - VIVALDI'S GLORIA) CARISSIMI: JEPHTÉ. BUXTEHUDE: JESU, MEINES LEBENS LEBEN - LES VIOLONS DU ROY (BERNARD LABADIE)

    « In both works, tenor Philippe Gagné is admirable »
    Christophe Huss, Le Devoir, Montreal (April 2024)

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    OPENING CONCERT - MISIONES DE CHIQUITOS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL - L’HARMONIE DES SAISONS

    « The vocal interpretation was provided by a tenor who enchanted the audience. »
    Festival Facebook page, Santa-Cruz, Bolivia (April 2024))

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    MONTEVERDI'S VESPERS - L’HARMONIE DES SAISONS

    « Tenor Philippe Gagné is touching and moving. »
    Jacques Leclerc, Les ArtsZé, Quebec (August 2023)

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    HANDEL'S MESSIAH - L'HARMONIE DES SAISONS.

    « Tenor Philippe Gagné pleases with his timbre, virtuosity and sensitivity. »
    Jacques Leclerc, Les ArtsZé, Québec (December 2023)

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    Requiem de Campra / In Convertendo de Rameau, with Les Talens Lyriques (Christophe Rousset)

    « Philippe Gagné's haute-contre voice (high-pitched tenor using the mixed voice and the head voice at the top of the range), soft and expressive in his first recit, blends perfectly with the smooth sounds of the flute. The notes held without vibrato (on the word "consolati") are delicately resolved into trills and the appoggiaturas appear as soft complaints at the end of sentences »
    Frédérique Epin, Orylix, Paris (2018)

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    M.A. Charpentier, Actéon with Clavecin en concert

    « The best of the show coincides with the best of the music. From the 3rd scene of Actéon and the air of the hero "Agréable vallon, paisible solitude… Liberté, mon coeur, liberté", the work takes on a real dimension in miniature and the show embraces this growing magic, especially at the moment of the transformation of Actéon into a stag, a delicate moment managed with much poetry. On the set, Luc Beauséjour has assembled a beautiful and coherent team. However, we must take a special hat-trick to tenor Philippe Gagné. We have been seeing him regularly in baroque productions for five years, but he has never made such a good and radiant impression on us. It is true that the role of Actéon does not require the dramatic dimensions of the voice. In any case, in this rather elegiac register, Philippe Gagné was very convincing. If he continues on this path, he seems ready to take on some of Rameau's operatic roles. »
    Christophe Huss, Le Devoir, Montreal (2018)

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    Paolo Lorenzani, Nicandro e Fileno with Le Nouvel Opéra and Les Boréades

    « It is a rather brief opera by Paolo Lorenzani rarely recorded on disc. Our columnist talks to Catherine Perrin about the album's impressive musical arrangements and the brilliant performance of tenor Philippe Gagné.»
    Frédérick Lambert, ICI Radio Canada, Montreal (2018)

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    Bach Missa in B Minor at Ottawa Chamberfest with Arion Baroque Orchestra

    « The young Philippe Gagné showed off an attractive light tenor, with a lovely, free top. »
    Natasha Gauthier, Ottawa Citizen (2016)

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    Let Us All Sing! Chaconne from Lully’s Amadis and Rameau, In convertendo Dominus with Tafelmusik

    « The text of Rameau’s In Convertendo Dominus is Psalm 126 and immediately we heard a heartfelt yet poised vulnerability firmly present in the tenor Philippe Gagne’s singing. »
    James Strecker Reviews the Arts (2016)

    « The first half concluded with more joyous celebration in Jean-Baptiste Lully’s Chaconne from his opera Amadis. Tenor Philippe Gagné (…) add brilliant colour and drama to the operatic finale. (…) Jean Philippe Rameau’s motet for choir, soloists and orchestra In convertendo Dominus was as expressive as one could imagine. Once again (the soloists) both in solos and together, demonstrated why they are each in demand internationally for historically informed performances; they sang with intelligence, virtuosity and expressiveness. »
    David Richards, Toronto Concert Reviews (2016)

    « (The other singers) are the two lovers, while Mr. Gagné sings the role of a Hero. All three - Mr. Gagné especially - offer urgently communicative operatic delivery of the text with vibrato-free baroque vocal technique. »
    Michael Johnson, Concertonet.com, Toronto (2016)

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    Coffee cantata with Arion Baroque Orchestra

    « The narrator – tenor, Philippe Gagné also has an impressive voice. Lightness and elegance combined to create tonal beauty that, despite M. Gagné’s smaller role as the narrator, he beautifully impacted our listening pleasure. »
    Nancy Snipper, SN Travel and Arts Without Borders (2016)

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    AUDIO / VIDEO
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    Handel - Comfort Ye - Every Valley

    Rameau - Pygmalion : Règne, Amour

    Monteverdi - Vespers : Nigra Sum

    Manuel Rücker - El Delirio

    J.S. Bach - St-John's Passion : Erwäge

    J.S. Bach - Selection

    Lorenzani - Nicandro e Fileno : Excerpt 1

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    Lorenzani - Nicandro e Fileno : Excerpt 2

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    Clérambault - Pyrame et Thisbé

        PAST / CONCERTS PASSÉS
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        REPERTOIRE
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        BACH, J.S.
        - St-John’s Passion (evangelist / tenor)
        - Christmas Oratorio (evangelist / tenor)
        - Markus Passion (evangelist / Koolstra version)
        - Magnificat
        - Missa in B minor
        - Cantatas, BWV: 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 16, 18, 23, 25, 34, 39, 41, 45, 46, 55, 56, 61, 67, 72, 76, 79, 80, 91, 96, 98, 99, 102, 106, 111, 113, 115, 117, 120, 123, 124, 125, 127, 140, 143, 152, 157, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 186, 192, 200, 211, 230.

        BECK, Franz Ignaz
        - Stabat Mater

        BERNIER, Nicolas
        - Toto Caelo (motet à voix seule)
        - Deus Miseratur Nostri (motet à voix seule)

        BRAHMS, Johannes
        - Liebeslieder
        - Neue Liebeslieder

        CAMPRA, André
        - Messe de Requiem (haute-contre à la française)
        - Te Deum (haute-contre à la française)
        Motets:
        - Florete prata, frondete lilia (haute-contre à la française)
        - Insere Domine (haute-contre à la française)
        - O Jesu Amantissime(haute-contre à la française)

        CARISSIMI, Giacomo
        - Jephte

        CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine
        - Messe de Minuit (haute-contre à la française)
        - Le reniement de saint Pierre - Missa Assumpta est Maria
        - Te deumH.146
        - Miserere H.219
        - Beatus vir H.208
        - Méditations pour le Carême

        CLÉRAMBAULT, Louis-Nicolas
        -Pyrame et Thisbé (cantate)

        COLLASSE, Pascale
        - Les cantiques spirituels (haute-contre à la française)

        COUPERIN, François
        - Ornate Aras (Motet à voix seule)

        DELALANDE, Michel-Richard
        - De Profundis (haute-contre à la française)
        - Super Fulmina Babylonis (haute-contre à la française)

        DUBOIS, Théodore
        - Les Sept paroles du Christ (The Seven Last Words of Christ)

        DUMONT, Henry
        - Super Flumina Babylonis (haute-contre à la française)
        - Grand Motet, Domine Deus (psaume 21)(haute-contre à la française)

        GOSSEC, François-Joseph
        - La Nativité (haute-contre à la française)
        - Christe Redemptor (haute-contre à la française)
        - La Grande Messe des Morts

        GOUNOD, Charles
        - Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile

        GRAUPNER, Christophe
        - Die Sieben Worte Jesu Am Kreuz
        - Many cantatas

        HANDEL, G.F .
        - Messiah
        - Judas Maccabeus
        - Messiah
        - Samson
        - Ressurrectione
        - Brockes Passion

        HAYDN, Franz-Joseph
        - Creation
        - Nelson Mass
        - Theresienmesse- Missa in B

        LE CAMUS, Sébastien
        -Airs de cours

        LULLY, Jean-Baptiste
        - De profundis (haute-contre à la française)
        - Le Ballet de l’Impatience (haute-contre à la française)
        - Te Deum (haute-contre à la française)

        MARCHANT, Jean-Noël
        - Cantique IIe, Heureux qui la sagesse (haute-contre à la française)

        MONDONVILLE, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa
        - Venite, Exultemus Domino (haute-contre à la française)
        - De profundis clamavi (haute-contre à la française)

        MONTEVERDI, Claudio
        - Vespro della Beata Vergine

        MOZART, W.A.
        - Requiem
        - Missa in C
        - Solemness Vespers
        - Coronation Mass
        - Missa solemnis «Messe de l’orphelinat»

        PURCELL, Henry
        - Hail Bright Cecilia
        - Dido and Aenes (Sailor)

        RACHMANINOFF, Sergueï
        - Vespers

        RACOT DE GRANDVAL, Nicolas
        - La matrone d'Éphèse

        RAMEAU, Jean-Philippe
        - Quam dilecta
        - In convertendo Dominus
        - Pygmalion

        ROSSINI, Gioachino
        - Petite messe solennelle

        SALIERI, Antonio
        - Requiem

        SCARLATTI, Domenico
        - Stabat Mater

        SCHUBERT, Franz
        - Missa in B flat

        TELEMANN, G.P.
        Cantatas:
        - TWV 1:66, Aller Augen warten auf dich
        - TWV 1:816, Ich bin erste und der letzte
        - TWV 1:929, In Christo gilt weder Beschneidung noch Vorhaut
        - TWV 1:1326, Siehe eine Jungfrau ist schwanger

        ZELENKA, Jan Dismas
        - Lamentations pro generis sancto, ZWV 53

        OTHER

        CACCINI, Giulio
        -Canzonnetti

        LE CAMUS, Sébastien
        -Airs de cours

        MONTEVERDI, Claudio
        - Duets, arias, motet, madrigals

        AND A LOT OF :
        - French cantatas
        - Airs de cours
        - Luth songs
        - Lieder

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        CONTACT
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        PHILIPPE GAGNÉ tenor

        Tel. 1 (514) 621-0668
        Mail. info@gagnephilippe.com