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A TIMELINE1989: Matthias Maute founds EnsembleCaprice with two friends in Germany.

1990: Matthias Maute wins first prize in thesoloist category of the recorder competitionat the MAfestival Brugge in Belgium.

1997: Sophie Larivire joins EnsembleCaprice and becomes co-artistic director.

1999: Matthias Maute moves to Quebec,where he re-forms Ensemble Caprice. Thegroup records its first album in Quebec onATMA Classique.

2009: The album, Gloria! Vivaldis Angelswins a Juno Award for best classical album inthe choral or vocal music category.

2013: Presentation of Vivaldis opera Motezuma at Thtre St-James in Montreal.

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Ensemble Caprice turns 25 this year. LaScena Musicale met the ensemblesfounder, Matthias Maute, and its co-artis-tic director, Sophie Larivire, to take stockof this musical quarter century and dis-

cuss their artistic vision, a vision that, whilenot always breeding unanimity, has won thema loyal audience over time.

An ensemble of variable geometry, Capriceis composed of five core members, assisted byother musicians in order to scale the ensem-bles size according to the project being un-dertaken. These members are Matthias Maute,flutist, composer, and conductor; his wife So-phie Larivire, also a flutist; David Jacques,guitarist; Suzie Napper, viola da gambist andcellist; and Ziya Tabassian, percussionist.

Were a bit on the margin, artistically, saysMaute. This elicits negative reactions, espe-cially on the part of critics, who put us down.Classical music is so traditional, formal, andreligious, that if you venture outside thenorms a bit, there are knee-jerk reactions.

The Baroque scene is less conservative, butit depends on what youre doing, adds Lariv-ire. With Bach and other well-known works,people are more cautious. But if we play com-posers that fewer people know, as we did onour album Salsa baroque, it gives us some lib-erty. Anyway, even when we try to draw on allreadings of the era, theres always a musiclover or a critic who has imagined an ideal ver-sion which, for them, we cannot surpass.

For Matthias Maute, the life of a musicianand artist is more than the simple role of faith-ful interpreter. It is a research project, one ofconstant discovery and exploration,

What interests me most is finding a way to

explore reality through music. The momentwe get on stage, something happens. Its notjust notes. You must reach a state where youare outside of yourself