Francis Colpron
Interprète (directeur artistique — flûtes à bec et traversière)

Les éloges de la critique pour Francis Colpron

Francis Colpron, musicien jusqu’au bout des ongles, évolue dans ce répertoire d’une exigence technique époustouflante avec un naturel qui ne cède jamais, même sous la pression des main les plus virtuoses. Comme à l’accoutumée, l’interprète «respire» la musique et donne à chaque phrase un «souffle» extraordinaire. […] le flûtiste utilise toutes les ressources de son instrument et semble même en inventer de nouvelles.
— Voir (Québec)

… c’est le flûtiste Francis Colpron, un de ces musiciens qui transcendent littéralement leur instrument pour en faire le canal de l’expression musicale pure, qui nous enchante le plus. Il y joue de la flûte traversière aux côtés du violoniste Manfred Kraemer […] Un ravissement.
— Voir (Québec)

Francis Colpron is also Canada’s foremost virtuoso on the recorder.
— Halifax Herald (Canada)

The splendid improvisatory virtuosity of Francis Colpron on recorders, his rapid-fire staccato notes, his roulades and embellisments as free ans as fascinating as the flames in a fireplace, made the heart leap in unbuttoned endorsement.
— Halifax Herald (Canada)

The joyous performances are characterized specifically by the impeccable recorder playing of Francis Colpron and generally by the group’s rhythmic vitality, cushioned in a rich recording acoustic.
— American Recorder (ÉU)

As in earlier recordings by this group, Colpron’s liveliness as recroder player and flutist is one key to the CD’s success (Théâtre Musical), and another is the extraordinarily clear and lifelike recording.
— Classical Music Magazine (Canada)

Montreal’s Francis Colpron showed himself to be a deft player with a wonderful ear for small, interior sounds. In Marais’varaitions on “Folies d’Espagne” an Vaan Eyck’s on “Doen Daphne,” he used crystalline articulation and gossamer-light runs to enliven the music.
— American Recorder (ÉU)

Le flûtiste rivalise avec n’importe quelle colorature, tant par son articulation précise et nette — même dans les vitesses les plus folles! — que par la manière dont il sait également émouvoir en infléchissant le son et le souffle dans les moments les plus expressifs des diverses sonates.
— Le Devoir (Québec)

Les Agréments se distinguent par la présence inspirante du flûtiste Francis Colpron. Dès qu’il intervient, la musique prend du relief, et ses collègues de l’assurance.
— Le Devoir (Québec)

Quebec’s Early Music scene is probably the most vibrant in the country and recorder and flute player Francis Colpron is one of the most prominent figures. The energy he brings to his art is evident in his rapidly expanding discography as well, of course, as in his vivacious playing.
— Opus (Québec)

Heart-on-sleeve emotion, artificial to a delicious fault, was balanced by the phenomenal agility of Francis Colpron’s flying fingers on the recorder in Mealli’s sonata La Cesta.
— Halifax Herald (Canada)

His playing is almost as agile as Michala Petri or Frans Bruggen’s, but it retains a certain roughness of tone that is very appealing…
— Ottawa Citizen (Canada)

The eight instrumentalists of Les Boréades de Montréal, enthusiastically directed from the harpsichord and organ by Eric Milnes, were well prepared and turned in a solid, stylish performance, with lovely featured work by winds Francis Colpron, recorders, and Mathew Jennejohn, baroque oboe.
— The Vancouver Sun (Canada)

Colpron’s agility, clarity and control of tone, as well as the musical forcefulness of his projection of what lies behind the notes, are remarkable. But his fine understanding and extraordinary ability to elucidate complex musical design for the mind and encourage the often astonished ear, stupefied by double stops, muted tones, trimmed pitches and vocal duets with himself, is no less for contemporary music.
— The Chronicle Herald