Cello artist internationally recognized, Johanne Perron currently pursues a career as a chamber musician, soloist and educator. As a soloist, he performed with orchestras such as the Montreal, Mexico and Lisbon symphonics, under conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Franz-Paul Decker, Arthur Weisberg, Otto Werner Muller and Zeev Doorman. He presented recitals in Canada, Brazil, Mexico and the United States, as well as in Europe, and collaborated as a chamber musician in the United States with members of the Philadelphia Piano Quartet, at the classical chamber music concerts in Naples, Florida, and at the Chamber Music Festival of Lucerne, New York. She was awarded in several contests and is the founder/member of the duo Cellissimo and the trio Garami. Currently, he is part of the trio Galena, resident artists of Valhalla Fine Arts, in British Columbia. His career has been featured in numerous radio and television broadcasts in Canada and at WQXR in New York.
Johanne was born in Chicoutimi. Quebec. As a young man, he moved to the city of Quebec and received the first prize in cello and chamber music at the Quebec Conservatory, as a student of Pierre Morin. As a fellow at the Canadian Arts Council, he was able to study at Yale with Aldo Parisot. He then studied with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He also studied with other renowned artists, including Janos Starker in Banff, Pierre Fournier in Geneva and Paul Tortelier in Los Angeles. He won several awards, including the Prix d’Europe, as well as the first prize in ropes at the Tremplin International des Concours of Musique du Canada.
The critics of the musical magazine America described Madame Perron as “an artist of extraordinary musical dimension, captivating intensity and profound inner serenity”. Gilles Potvin wrote: “His sound is unshakably beautiful and of great fluidity. What impresses most about it are the musical gifts that allow it to phrasing with sensitivity and elegance”. Johanne Perron served as a professor at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida, formerly known as the Harid Conservatory. She taught and ministered masterclasses at festivals in Brazil, Canada and the United States. He was also part of the faculty of Domaine Forget, Morningside Music Bridge and Valhalla Summer School of Music in British Columbia. In 2005, after twenty years of Canada’s absence, Madame Perron returned to join the artistic faculty of the University of Montreal, which attracts young and talented musicians from around the world. She is also a guest professor at the Mount Royal University Conservatory in Calgary, Alberta, where she teaches masterclasses and classes.
For Madame Perron, the purpose of teaching is not only to convey knowledge, but also to create a dialogue with the younger ones. Proof of this are his three daughters, who, in turn, adopted their own passion for music. Johanne adds: “This human dimension requires a lot of personal investment of time and energy, but it results in great satisfaction in my teaching career.” She plays a 1705 Giovanni Grancino cello made in Milan, Italy.”