OLIVIER BRAULT, violin, hails from Terrebonne in Québec and has brought communicative enthusiasm and scholarship to concerts throughout North America and Europe for almost thirty years. Baroque violin teacher at McGill University, he is the director of Sonate 1704 (Québec) and of the ensemble Les Goûts Réunis (Luxembourg), principal violin with the Four Nations Ensemble (New York), and Les Boréades de Montréal. In 2007, he completed a doctorate at the Université de Montréal on 18th-century French music for violin and figured bass, an expertise that leads him to give lectures and masterclasses in prestigious institutions such as the Conservatoire royal de musique de Bruxelles and the Conservatoire de musique et de danse de Paris. He has participated in over 65 recordings, many award-winning. In 2011, he was awarded the medal of the Assemblée Nationale du Québec. In 2016, an article from the CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION placed him among the ten Canadian violinists that “must be known”.