In the last few years Amati participated to many major festivals, such as the Festival international de Jazz de Montréal, the Festival Montréal en lumière, the Festival de Québec, the Festivals du Mont-Tremblant, St-Sauveur and St-Zénon-de-Piopolis. Recently, the orchestra distinguished itself during a tour of the island of Montreal with its guest, the brilliant violinist Alexandre Da Costa.

L’Ensemble Amati offers to its audience the Aventures concerts, well known for there thematical approach and the originality of there animations. Moreover, Amati takes seriously its pedagogical mission, bringing classical music to a young audience through the Amatinees interactive concerts.

The orchestra is faithfull to its conventional repertoire, which included masterpieces by the most reknowed , conteporanean and/or canadian composers.

L'Ensemble Amati is as well a stepping-stone for tomorrow's string instruments stars. This allows Amati to remain in a class appart in the artistic colony, with high-level, young and dynamic musicians joining together and blending in a musical homogeneity of spirit end rendition that critics praises.

L’Ensemble Amati aims at reaching the greatest number of aficionados music-lovers, all the while sharing this love with less in-the-know listeners from all age groups. It is with these concerns for accessibility and unity that the Ensemble brought about new conceptual experiments.

Maestro at Radio-Canada for thirty years, Léon Bernier brought his trade to the highest levels, conducting with the same know-how a jazz or pop ensemble or a symphonic orchestra.