Francis Palma-Pelletier
double bass
Francis Palma-Pelletier has a passion for historic double bass. He completed a bachelor’s degree in interpretation at McGill University, then a post-graduate training in early music at Basel’s Schola Cantorum, in Switzerland. During the 6 years he spent in Europe, he had the opportunity to perform in several countries with groups such as the Barockorchester Capriccio Basel, the Collegium Musicum Luzern, the Freitagsakademie Bern and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées.
Since coming back to Montreal in 2008, he has been playing with several ensembles of early music, including the Boréades, the Lys Naissants, Galileo and the Idées Heureuses. He recorded under the Atma and Analekta label. He was invited to play has a soloist in Montréal and in Luxembourg. In addition to being active in the chamber music circle, he is a member of the Radiotango band and double bassist in the theater play la Bibliothèque interdite from productions Sybillines.
