Our team

Montreal-based flutist Jeffrey Stonehouse is artistic director of Ensemble Paramirabo and is an active orchestral and chamber musician. He is the flutist with ECM+ and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (interim). Jeffrey performs with the SMCQ Ensemble, l’Orchestre Métropolitain and Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Longueuil and Drummondville Symphony Orchestras. As a soloist, Jeffrey has performed with the K-W Symphony Orchestra and has performed across Canada, the USA and Europe. He is the winner of the soundSCAPE International Festival Performer Prize. Jeffrey teaches at the Domaine Forget International Academy and Camp du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean. He serves as an administrator on the board of Groupe Le Vivier.

Gwénaëlle Ratouit is a versatile clarinettist active as a chamber and orchestral musician in Montreal. Today, her curiosity leads her to perform in a variety of projects combining classical and contemporary music in Europe and Canada. 

After several years of musical studies in France, where she perfected her skills with soloists from the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, including Richard Rimbert, Gwénaëlle developed her musical personality and refined her playing with Martin Carpentier at the Université de Montréal, where she obtained her Master's degree in Interpretation. She also holds a French teaching diploma and a Bachelor's degree in Musicology. 

Winner of several prizes and bursaries, she notably won the Premier Prix Julie Sirois organized by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne on two consecutive occasions, in 2021 and 2022.

Playing from eb clarinet to bass clarinet, Gwénaëlle is a permanent member of the contemporary music ensembles Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Paramirabo, and is also a member of the reed quintet 5ilience. She can also be heard in the classical repertoire with the Ad Hoc wind octet. She has taken part in numerous recordings for emerging artists and film music composers in Quebec. She also performs as a supernumerary with symphony orchestras and wind ensembles in France and Canada. 

Highly committed to the transmission of knowledge, she currently teaches clarinet and bass clarinet in secondary schools.

A 2016 graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal where he studied with Johanne Arel, Hubert Brizard is a violinist from Longueuil. Recipient of several summer scholarships, he had the chance to learn with great violinists such as Pinchas Zukerman, Grigory Kalinovsky, William Van Der Sloot, Jonathan Crow and Andrew Wan. He has been part of the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal (ECM+) for 3 years, in addition to being a supernumerary for ensembles such as I Musici, the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, the Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke, as well as the Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil. He can also be seen occasionally in SMCQ concerts.

Passionate about new music, he has participated in many memorable creations, such as Hockey Noir by André Ristic (ECM+), Evta by Ana Sokolovic (ECM+), Qui pourra monter à la montagne de l’Éternel by Katia Makdissi-Warren (NEM ) as well as …et à la fin… by Brice Gatinet.

Viviana Gosselin has been a featured soloist with ECM+ and Ensemble Paramirabo. She performs regularly with the ARKEA ensemble, the Sinfonia de Lanaudière, the the Orchestre symphonique de l'Estuaire, the Opéra bouffe du Québec, the Radio-Ville-Marie Choir and Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal. She has collaborated with Mario Pelchat, Marc Hervieux and OktoEcho. A graduate of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal in the class of Carole Sirois, she was an intern at the National Arts Centre Orchestra Institute in Ottawa (2010-2011 season). She is a winner of the Montérégie and Verdun Music Competitions and has received the Montée des arts (2006) and Wilfrid Laurier (2008) bursaries. In addition to her talents as a cellist, she is also active as a graphic designer and computer graphics artist.

Montréal pianist Pamela Reimer is known for her versatility in her capacities as soloist, chamber musician and creator. She has premiered new works, toured and recorded numerous albums with ensembles Bradyworks, Blue Rider Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal, Orford Six Pianos, Erreur de Type 27, Ensemble Paramirabo, No Hay Banda, and in duos with flutist Marie-Hélène Breault and percussionist Beverley Johnston. Her interdisciplinary interests have led to collaborations with Les Grands ballets Canadiens, the National Ballet of Canada, and to the creation of theatrical concerts: Les Non-dits (2023) with Krystina Marcoux and Nick Carpenter; 50 questions @ 50 (2019), directed by Marie-Josée Chartier, and Perspectives d’Hildegard (2016), directed by Alice Ronfard. She has been a recipient of several Canada Council grants, and was nominated for an Opus prize in 2016. From 2016-2018, she was artist-in-residence at Concordia University, and in 2020, guest pianist with the London Sinfonietta. Recent recordings include ‘Mes hommages’ (2019): flute and piano works by Québec composers, with Marie-Hélène Breault; and ‘Music of François Tousignant’ (2021), with Ensemble Paramirabo, playing piano, harpsichord and synthesizer. She teaches at the Conservatoire de Musique in Montréal.