Piccolo, C flute, alto and bass flutes. Soprano, alto, and tenor recorders. Irish whistle and penny whistle (Ireland). Ocarinas (Italy and Latin America), museño ( Paraguay, Brazil), quena (Andes), dizi (China), sheng (Chinese mouth organ), nay (Arab world), fulani flute (West Africa), various bird call whistles, Indian, Nepali, African, and European transverse flutes and recorders. Percussions: various metallophones, drums, and accessories.

Guy Pelletier’s experience has been multiple and diverse. He has performed as a soloist, chamber music player, and improviser. At ease with all styles of music, he has played with various contemporary, classical, jazz, rock, and world folk music groups.  

He has participated in numerous premieres and in many tours in North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, as well as recording dozens of concerts and performances for Canadian, American, French, and German radio. He features on over forty recordings from a variety of productions.

Founding member of the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and of the ensemble Pentaedre, of which he was a member for 17 and 14 years respectively, he is now a member of Saïd Mesnaoui’s Maroccan music group and of the Transmission Ensemble (a six-musician contemporary chamber music group). He recently founded a duo dedicated to Brazilian music with Vladimir Sidorov (bayan). He is frequently in demand as a studio musician in Montreal, and teaches flute (classical and jazz) at the Cégep de Trois-Rivières and at Concordia University.

For several years, Guy Pelletier has been exploring flutes from other cultures, particularly the Chinese dizi, the Arabic nay, and the Bolivian quena, all of which he plays regularly.