Jeanne Lamon, Baroque violin

Violinist Jeanne Lamon has devoted herself to the performance of Baroque and Classical music on period instruments since 1972, both as a soloist and -- since 1981 -- as musical director of the Canadian-based baroque chamber orchestra Tafelmusik. Critics in Europe and North America have praised Lamon both for her virtuosity and her strong musical leadership, which has brought Tafelmusik international recognition as one of the best ensembles in its field.

Since 1990, Lamon and Tafelmusik have recorded exclusively for Sony Classical. Of her performance as soloist on Tafelmusik's recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, BBC Music Magazine wrote, "Her playing puts expressiveness before virtuosity and is quite beautiful in the slow movements which she ornaments freely adding a refreshing touch of spontaneity to music which is after all very familiar."

"Lamon is a true virtuoso -- there are few better Baroque violinists in the world today," Continuo wrote in 1996, " and she led the ensemble of eighteen musicians in a concert that sounded like a non-playing conductor was choreographing every move."

She has won numerous awards for her artistic leadership, innovation and her own virtuosic musicianship. Lamon teaches at the University of Toronto and Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music.