Margaret Little

Margaret Little was born and raised in Montreal in a musical family, playing violin, piano, recorder and guitar as a child. She discovered the viola da gamba at the age of eleven and fell in love instantly with the instrument and early music repertoire. After studying science and then visual arts, she came back to music and the viol in her early twenties.

Margaret has been performing since 1975 as a soloist and a chamber musician on the viola da gamba and baroque viola with various groups including the Studio de Musique ancienne de Montréal, Les Idées Heureuses, Arion, Musica Divina, and she founded the viola da gamba duo "Les Voix humaines" with Susie Napper over twenty years ago. She has been invited to play with many early music groups across Canada and the USA as a gambist, baroque violinist and violist (such as Rebel, Four Nations, Trinity Consort, Aradia, The Publick Musick, Les Boréades, Les Violons du Roy, etc.) and has toured in North America, Mexico and Europe. She can be heard regularly on the SRC and CBC networks. She has also performed for Radio-France, the Spanish radio and the BBC. She has recorded for Damzell, UMMUS, Naxos, CBC Records, and mostly for ATMA. Margaret Little teaches the viola da gamba and baroque ensembles at the Université de Montréal  as well as the CAMMAC Lake MacDonald Music Centre.