Jean-Louis
Blouin

At the age of eleven, Jean-Louis Blouin began focusing his musical studies on the viola. From 1989 to 1993, he studied at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, where he earned a diploma in advanced studies. He further refined his skills under the guidance of Jutta Puchhammer at the Université de Montréal, completing a master’s degree in performance. Since 1996, Mr. Blouin has been a permanent member of the ensemble Les Violons du Roy, with whom he has participated in several recordings, including The Art of Fugue, J.S. Bach’s Psalm 51, and La Cigale et Les Violons. His interest in Baroque music and historically informed performance has led him to perform with various ensembles specializing in this repertoire, primarily as a violist but also on the Baroque violin. Audiences have heard him with ensembles such as Tafelmusik and Aradia in Toronto, at the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival, and in Quebec with Arion Baroque Orchestra, the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal, the Montreal Baroque Orchestra, and the ensembles Les Boréades, La Chamaille, and Masques, with whom he recorded Bach’s harpsichord concertos under the Analekta label. Jean-Louis Blouin plays on a Giuseppe Pedrazzini viola, Milan, c. 1930, and uses a Louis Gillet viola bow, c. 1965, generously provided by CANIMEX INC. of Drummondville, Quebec.