As Artistic Director of Arion Baroque Orchestra since June 2019, Mathieu Lussier has devoted over twenty years to energetically and passionately promoting the bassoon and baroque bassoon as solo and orchestral instruments throughout North America, South America, and Europe. He also maintains a career as a chamber musician with the Montreal-based ensemble Pentaèdre and is an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal. Since August 2022, he has also served as Artistic Director of Domaine Forget in Charlevoix.
As Associate Conductor of Les Violons du Roy chamber orchestra from 2012 to 2018, Mathieu Lussier led the ensemble in over 100 concerts in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States, collaborating with artists such as Marc-André Hamelin, Alexandre Tharaud, Jeremy Denk, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Philippe Jarrousky, Julia Lezhneva, Anthony Marwood, and Karina Gauvin, among others. As Artistic Director of the Lamèque International Baroque Music Festival between 2008 and 2014, Mathieu Lussier also conducted numerous other Canadian ensembles including the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Trois-Rivières Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, I Musici de Montréal, Symphony Nova Scotia (Halifax), the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, as well as the orchestras of Drummondville and Sherbrooke.
His extensive recordings as a soloist include over a dozen bassoon concertos (by Mozart, Vivaldi, Fasch, Graupner, Telemann, and Corrette), a disc of bassoon sonatas by Boismortier, three albums of solo bassoon music by François Devienne, two albums of wind music by Gossec and Méhul, and a disc entirely devoted to the music of Eugène Jancourt.
