
The Orchestra | Galileo | Music director and musicians | Staff and Board
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Galileo
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Founded and directed by Daniel Constantineau, Galileo is the only professional classical music company in the Montérégie-Ouest region. A chamber ensemble composed of 15 to 45 instrumentalists, depending on the repertoire, its primary objective is to produce vibrant symphonic music in a region largely deprived of it. It does so in a historically informed (HIP) manner, which perfectly aligns with the region's historic character.
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Galileo's productions attest to the quality of its work, including the recording of André Gagnon's Baroque works by ATMA in July 2015, its nomination for the 2016 ADISQ Gala, four nominations for the 2017/2019/2020 Opus Awards, and the award for "Best Concert of the Year - Multiple Repertoires" for its show "Opéras!" in 2019 (see the photo, underneath).
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A repertory orchestra that performs numerous Canadian premieres on period instruments and whose programs regularly break new ground, Galileo also prides itself on collaborations with renowned soloists and companies. These achievements are complemented by extensive training programs, participatory immersion, and access to its concerts "Dans la cour des grands," "Cause toujours," and "Biglietto sospeso."
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Music Director

Conductor making respect for the intentions of the composers he plays and the intelligibility of musical discourse his priorities, Daniel Constantineau delivers captivating and elevated interpretations of the works he conducts.
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In addition to regularly attracting good words from critics, Daniel Constantineau proves to be a precise and attentive interpreter, sensitive to the many nuances that emerge from the symphonic repertoires he approaches.
In this, he is of course guided by the interpretations of the best leaders of the movement of so-called historically informed performance — the Harnoncourts, Norringtons, Gardiners, Herreweghes, to name but a few — and by the many treatises on early music that he has studied over the years, but above all, through the teachings of composer Gilles Tremblay, spiritual son of Olivier Messiaen, whose approaches at the chapters of medieval music and the agogics of Mozart's works will have had a profound effect on him.
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Musicians 2025
VIOLINS
Tanya Laperrière | solo
Simon Alexandre
Jimin Dobson
William Foy
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VIOLAS
Jacques-André Houle
Pemi Paull
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CELLOS
Juan-Sebastian Delgado
Amanda Keesmaat
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DOUBLE BASS/VIOLONE
Francis Palma-Pelletier
TRAVERSO
Grégoire Jeay
FLUTE
​Catherine Chabot
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HAUTBOIS
Matthew Jennejohn
Léanne Teran-Paul
Joël Verkaïk
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CLARINETS
Ludovik Lesage-Hinse
Mark Simons
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BASSOON
Michel Bettez
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HORNS
Louis-Pierre Bergeron
​Jessica Duranleau
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TRUMPET
Alexis Basque
TROMBONE
Nicolas Blanchette
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PERCUSSIONS
Philippe Hornsey
Matthias Soly-Letarte
David Therrien-Brongo
PIANO
Gili Loftus
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CONTINUO
Madeleine Owen, théorbe
Martine Jomphe, clavecin
Jérôme de Los Santos, clavecin
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CONTRACTORS
Ludovic Lesage-Hinse
Daniel Constantineau
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Staff and Board
Daniel Constantineau, MMEC HÉC Montréal, Executive and Music Director
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Board
Denis Ellefsen, Engineer MBA – President
Martin Leboeuf, Ph.D, Vice president PrimaMedic Group – Treasurer
Marie Trudeau, Music Librarian, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – Secretary
Éric Chouinard, CTEQ manager – administrateur– Trustee
Michael Clermont, IT specialist, Banque National – Trustee
Daniel Constantineau, MMEC, General manager and Artistic director of Galileo – Trustee
Charlotte Montminy, MBA, Manager CRM, The Cirque du Soleil Group – Trustee
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Volunteers
Marie-Josée Bellemare
Gilles Saint-Louis
Marthe Saint-Louis