Based in Montreal, Ensemble Masques is a sextet that explores unusual corners of the Baroque repertory. Ensemble Masques, sometimes known simply as Masques, was founded in 1996 by keyboardist Olivier Fortin, who remains the group's director, but the group has no conductor, and its musical directions are shaped by the interests of the individual members. Masques members, in addition to Fortin, are violinists Sophie Gent and Tuomo Suni, violist Kathleen Kajioka, cellist Mélisande Corriveau, and double bassist and violone player Benoît Vanden Bemden. In 2001, Ensemble Masques made its recording debut with the album Matthew Locke: Consorts in Two Parts. The ensemble's recorded repertory includes Bach and Rameau but is as varied as its concert programming, also including such composers as Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Romanus Weichlein. Ensemble Masques issued the album Bach: Ouvertures-Suites in 2022.