Elsie Reford’s violin emerges from its silence after a century | Music | Arts | The sun

After 100 years of silence, Elsie Reford’s violin has sounded its first notes following a six-month restoration by luthier Olivier Pérot of Montreal. With the famous violin of the founder of the Jardins de Métis, violinist Élise Lavoie notably played, during a concert presented on Sunday in the new Grand Hall des Jardins, the piece Elsiecomposed by Mathieu David Gagnon.