Never short of ideas when it comes to offering concert programmes imbued with authenticity and refinement, Luc Beauséjour is an exceptional harpsichordist and organist, highly sought after not only for his virtuosity and the subtlety of his playing, but also for his outgoing personality and the ease with which he communicates with his audiences. Luc Beauséjour leads a very active concert career. He has performed as soloist in North and South America as well as in Europe.

He was named 2003 Performer of the Year by the Conseil québécois de la musique and has won Félix awards for two different recordings at the Gala de l’ADISQ in Québec (in 2002 and again in 2006). Beauséjour has been involved in over thirty recording projects, either as soloist or as musical director. He has collaborated with many internationally acclaimed artists, including Julie Boulianne, Karina Gauvin, Shannon Mercer, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, James Ehnes, Hélène Guilmette, Philippe Sly, and Hervé Niquet. Since 1994 he has been the artistic director of the ensemble Clavecin en Concert, an organization whose mission is to promote music written for the harpsichord both as a solo instrument and as part of an orchestra.

Teaching is also an important part of Beauséjour’s musical activities. He is a music professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal and at the Université de Montréal.

Fischer has importance as an early link between the French style of Lully and that of composers in Germany. He spent much of his life as Court Kapellmeister to the Margraves of Baden.

Instrumental Music

Fischer’s published compositions include a number of suites, the first set for instrumental ensemble and later sets for keyboard. His Ariadne musica neo-organoedum, a set of 20 fugues for organ, clearly had an influence on Bach, as, in other respects, did his music on Handel; to both composers he is an important precursor. His Musicalischer Parnassus is a set of nine keyboard suites, each bearing the name of one of the Muses, and the Musicalisches Blumen-Büschlein includes eight keyboard suites.