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La terrible crise d’'Ukraine nous remplit de tristesse et d’inquiétude. Mardi dernier le Saint Père a décrit la situation comme "une grande douleur dans nos coeurs" pour lire la suite
12/03/2022
Camp d'été 2022
À l’été 2022 aura lieu le premier camp musical Pueri Cantores Canada. Ce camp s’adresse aux jeunes de 10 à 17 ans et aura lieu du 14 au 20 août 2022 dans les installations du Camp musical du Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.
Ce camp musical promet des expériences musicales pour nos jeunes choristes provenant de diverses régions du Québec et du Canada. Ce séjour permettra aussi de partager de belles expériences culturelles et sportives dans un environnement des plus enchanteurs. Nous assurons un choix de répertoire de grande qualité puisé autant du domaine sacré que profane convenant à des voix d’enfants.
Pour procéder à l’inscription officielle à compter du 1er mars 2022, un lien sera disponible sous peu. Bienvenue à tous!
02/02/2022
Next congress
Bathurst
June 25 - June 29, 2020
Pueri Cantores Meritas
Click here to obtain application form
Next board meeting
September 14th, 2019
Click here to obtain 2021 application form
Cap-de-la-Madeleine
October 2, 2021
Concert virtuel Veni veni Emmanuel
Merci à tous ceux et celles qui ont participé à la réalisation de l’enregistrement « Veni veni Emmanuel » harmonisé par notre cher Mgr Claude Thompson.
Cette prestation qui a regroupé 80 choristes provenant de différents chœurs membres des Pueri Cantores Canada. Vous pouvez l’entendre en cliquant sur ce lien :
02/02/2022
March 28th : Free virtual concert 7 p.m.
25/05/2021
The Pueri Cantores open their choirs to you.
At the dawn of the beautiful season and following a year marked by upheavals, the member choirs of the Pueri Cantores of Canada unite to present you a virtual concert.
Sacred, secular and classical songs which, we hope, will make you have a great time.
You can see the trailer for this concert here:
During this live broadcast on the Youtube page of the Pueri Cantores of Canada, you will hear, in order of appearance, the Maîtrise des Petits chanteurs du Cap, the Loyal Choir, the Petits chanteurs de Granby, Les Petits chanteurs de Beauport, the Maîtrise de Québec, Les Petits chanteurs du Mont-Royal and the St. Michael's Choir.
This concert is also the launch of the Youtube channel of the Pueri Cantores of Canada.
You will therefore be able to find performances by our member choirs on this channel a few hours after the live broadcast of this concert.
Here is the link to attend the concert for free.
https://youtu.be/w5Sum8c7sTc
28 mai Concert vituel gratuit 19h
Les Pueri Cantores vous ouvrent leurs chœurs
À l'aube de la belle saison et à la suite d'une année marquée par des bouleversements, le choeurs membres des Pueri Cantores du Canada s'unissent pour vous présenter un concert virtuel.
Des chants sacrés, profanes et classiques qui, espère-ton, sauront vous faire passer un beau moment.
Vous pouvez voir la bande-annonce de ce concert ici :
https://youtu.be/4I4jITyP8ts
Lors de cette diffusion en direct sur la page Youtube des Pueri Cantores du Canada, vous entendez, en ordre d'apparition, la Maîtrise des Petits chanteurs du Cap, le Loyal Choir, les Petits chanteurs de Granby, Les Petits chanteurs de Beauport, la Maîtrise de Québec, Les Petits chanteurs du Mont-Royal et le St. Michael's Choir.
Ce concert se veut aussi le lancement de la Chaîne Youtube des Pueri Cantores du Canada.
Vous pourrez donc retrouver des prestations de nos choeurs membres sur cette chaîne quelques heures après la diffusion en direct de ce concert.
C’est un rendez-vous le vendredi 28 mai à 19h sur chaine YouTube Pueri Cantres Canada.
Voici le lien pour assister au concert gratuitement.
https://youtu.be/w5Sum8c7sTc
05/25/2021
March 11th : Commemoration Day
15/03/2021
Les Petits Chanteurs de Beauport were present during the Covid commemoration day on March 11, 2021 with a performance of À La Claire Fontaine in front of the Parliament of Quebec on a giant screen. In addition to this, you need to know more about it.
Prime Minister François Legault:
I was very moved to listen to the piece "À la claire fontaine" performed by the 27 young choristers of Les Petits Chanteurs De Beauport during the commemoration ceremony in memory of the victims of COVID-19. Our young people are so talented! Thank you for bringing so much comfort to the bereaved families today.
Following Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal
24/12/2020
Dear friends of Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal,
We invite you to subscribe to our social media pages, which will allow you to watch twelve videos that we have prepared to celebrate the holidays! Enter our Capsule… at the heart of the Mastery!
Here are the different links:
Petits Chanteurs de Trois-Rivières alumni QW4RTZ sings l'Hymne à Trois-Rivières
28/10/2020
A good news in these challeging times
10/10/2020
Equal voices of Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal will be back on Sunday mass with pre-recorded works. Tune in to your radio on 91.3 FM on Sundays at 11 AM or listen on the Internet: https://www.radiovm.com/
A message from Petits Chanteurs du
Mont-Royal
26/04/2020
Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal would like to add their message of support to the World Health Organization and to those working on the front line and since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here is our a cappella version of The Prayer, recorded live in May 2019.
Happy Easter everyone!
26/04/2020
We are still confined to our homes, but I have been able to receive some beautiful pictures of the choristers who make us see in their own way that "It's going to be fine". Their smile warmed my heart. These photos were incorporated into a video montage that was made to a tune I chose from a video clip from one of our concerts. This is the Sanctus by Richard Oswin, performed by the seniors during the 2019 Christmas concert at the Sanctuary of St. Therese of the Child Jesus - Louise Marie Pelletier
Petits Chanteurs de Charlesbourg : "Everything will be all right"
26/04/2020
It is the turn of our precious choristers to put a little sun in your day. What better than the song Oh Happy Day to remind us that “it's going to be fine” 🌈!
Goodbye Fr Andrew
20/01/2020
We'll miss Fr Andrew, and his wonderful singing and support of Sacred Music, as he prepares to move later this month to the Institute of the Incarnate Word (IVE) seminary in Washington DC to teach. We'll welcome our new pastor for Sacred Heart Church, Fr Salvador, in the next few weeks! I am grateful to have known Fr Andrew from his time as pastor at St Michael's, Cobourg.
A new start for Choeur d'enfants des Patriotes
09/09/2019
After St-Eustache and Toronto , it is now in Kingston that a core of 7 new singers sang their first Christmas concert!
First concert of Petits Chanteurs de Trois-Rivières new director
14/12/2019
A new album for Petits Chanteurs de Beauport: Chante Nöel avec les anges
17/11/2019
On November 29, 7h30 PM, Salon des Artisans de Québec
Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal’s choir program gets helping hand from Quebec
09/09/2019
Passionate singers
11/08/2019
Six awards were presented in 2018-19 to celebrate the exceptional commitment of Pueri Cantores members. Consult the list of winners here.
Have a great summer!
06/07/2019
Every member of Pueri Cantores Canada wishes you a wonderful summer break with lots of sun and music!
#TousenchoeurPCMR
10/06/2019
“If Minister Roberge does not intervene immediately it will be the end of the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal. We ask that he act as quickly as possible to preserve this unique institution in Quebec. All that is required is a direct subsidy by the Ministry of Education at no additional cost for the taxpayer. If the minister refuses to intervene, we ask that a reasonable grace period be provided so that we may find a viable solution to keep this unique institution alive”
To sign the petition: https://bit.ly/2XvkhPM
Training program in vocal technique 2019
15/05/2019
Alliance chorale du Québec offers a summer training specially designed for choristers who wish to perfect their vocal technique. For more information: https://www.chorales.ca/technique-vocale-2019.html
A representation tour in Alberta
04/04/2019
In order of developping the Pueri Cantores Canada, our president, Mrs. Louise Marie Desbiens, has made a tour in western Canada to share the mission of the Pueri Cantores. Received warmly by various actors from the cultural community, school or diocese, she gives us a brief summary of his meetings with the help of this small photo album.
Best wishes!
22/12/2018
The entire team of the Canadian Federation of Pueri Cantores Canada wishes you Happy Holidays.Peace, happiness and a lot of music!
Benfit concert of the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal on December 9th
17/11/2018
Well-known composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue, Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) is also famous for his choral pieces. Under the direction of Andrew Gray, the Little Singers of Mount Royal will offer, among others, the Chichester Psalms, a work in Hebrew created in 1965. The program will be complemented by pieces from the Welsh Karl Jenkins, the most sung composer of the great British composer Benjamin Britten, contemporary of Bernstein, as well as pieces by Eriks Esenvalds and John Rutter.
To view the event: l'événement: https://www.facebook.com/events/1362689110533213/
A crowdfunding campaign for the Petits Chanteurs de Beauport
25/10/2018
The Petit Chanteurs choir in Beauport is preparing the recording of their third album entitled "Sing Christmas with the Angels". Its influence will make known the new Christmas repertoire. It will be used to blackmail children in families and schools. Thus we hope to multiply the happiness of singing wherever singing can bring a grain of cheerfulness and comfort.
To achieve this major project, we need you! By following this link https://laruchequebec.com/projet/chante-noel-avec-les-anges-5110/ you will be able to contribute to the financing of this wonderful project and obtain magnificent counterparts! Our goal is to raise $ 6,000 in 60 days to be able to record our album.
Visit our Hive Project & contribute. You will find all the details of the project and the rewards offered!
Marcel Allaire receives the Mgr Thompson Award
13/10/2018
The federation recognizes the immense contribution of Mr. Marcel Allaire to the blooming of the federation. To see the complete news, click here.
"Happy Birthday, Monsieur Vigneault!": A concert of the Choral Alliance presenting the arrangements of Bishop Thompson
31/08/2018
The Quebec Choral Alliance presented at its Great Choral Rally in August a vibrant tribute to Gilles Vigneault through some arrangements by Bishop Claude Thompson. To see the memories of this event:
Sixty Canadian Singers Participate at the 42nd International Congress in Barcelona
30/07/2018
Pueri Cantores Canada went on to represent our country at the 42nd International Pueri Cantores Conference in Barcelona, Spain, last July. About sixty choristers, including 50 children, first traveled through a few cities in southern Spain. In Toledo, they sang a mass at the cathedral where the Prima of Spain welcomed them, Msgr. Braulio. He said he was touched by the singing of our young people. They then sang at the Corpus Christi Church in Madrid, a small church in a convent of cloistered sisters where they experienced an extraordinary musical experience in an exceptional acoustics of a chapel that has remained intact since the Baroque period.
The Segovia Cathedral was also an exceptional place where they could occur. The light that emanated from their interpretation and their attitude preceded the congress they were preparing to participate, whose theme was '' Your Estis Lux Mundi '', which means, '' You are the light of the world ''. As for this fabulous congress in Barcelona, they would join 3,500 other little singers. Every day, a musical performance was on the program.
For this event, the Pueri Cantores Canada choir consisted of three member choirs, including Les Petits Chanteurs de Trois-Rivières, conducted by Luc Darveau, the Loyola Choir choir conducted by Marthe Lacasse, and Les Petits Chanteurs de Beauport conducted by Louise Marie Desbiens . They have been selected as solo chorus for the gala concert.
Singing with 3,500 other singers at the Sagrada Familia, in Barcelona, where the light dances with stone and stained glass, where more than a hundred choirs came from 14 different countries, what an experience! How do you express this moment of extreme intensity that will last an eternity in our heart!
Louise Marie Desbiens
Pueri Cantores Canada hosts a Bordeaux choir
17/06/2018
Celebrating 70 years of existence this year, Les Petits Chanteurs de Bordeaux will be with us this summer on their Canadian tour. Their trip will start in Laval (July 4th and 5th), to then move to Quebec City (July 6th and 7th), Ottawa (July 8th), Peterborough (July 10th and 11th), Port Hope (July 12th) ), Toronto (July 13), Kingston (July 14-15) and end in Montreal on July 16, 17 and 18.
Pueri Cantores Canada Pueri attend the 2018 International Convention
02/04/2018
Next July, Pueri Cantores Canada will represent Canada in Barcelona, Spain, at the 43rd International Pueri Cantores Convention. To do so, they will have in their active repertoire, not only Quebec songs harmonized by our founder, Mgr Claude Thompson, but also the Spanish, English, German and Latin repertoire.
As President of Pueri Cantores Canada, Louise Marie Desbiens was able to attend the 41st Pueri Cantores Congress held in Rome in 2015. It was here that she had the immense privilege close encounter with Pope Francis on December 31, 2015. A character of great simplicity and great humanity, Pope Francis addressed the thousands of little singers present, encouraging them to continue their mission of singing peace of God in the world. "Sing and walk," he told them and they chanted this slogan in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall "Sing and Walk". Upon her return, Mrs. Desbiens had the wish to give the members of Pueri Cantores Canada the experience of the international congress of Pueri Cantores planned in Spain for 2018. In order to ensure the participation of Canada, Mrs. Desbiens had the idea to reconstruct the choir of Pueri Cantores Canada, formed in 2016 to tour Toronto.
This is not the first time Canadian Pueri Cantores have participated in such an event. However, the last trips made by all the members in 2013 in Washington and in 2011 in New York, when they had been invited to join the American Pueri Cantores, clearly marked the life of the little singers. It must be said that these experiences and his shocking meeting with Pope Francis have particularly marked our president. It is with pride and enthusiasm that she and a team led by Mrs. Annie Lapointe will bring the 55 young people to Spain from July 5 to 16, 2018.
The Pueri Cantores Canada choir will first go to Madrid. By happy circumstances caused by Bishop Luc Bouchard, Bishop of Trois-Rivières and chaplain of our federation, the choir will have the chance to be received in Toledo to sing in the cathedral where will welcome Bishop Braulio Rodriguez Plaza, Primate of the church of Spain. A break in Valencia will allow them to dive in the Mediterranean before going to Barcelona to live the five days of congress of the Pueri Cantores. They will join three thousand other little singers from around the world to sing among others at a Mass in the wonderful Sagrada Familia
Job Posting - Music Director
05/01/2018
St. Michael's Choir School - St. Michael's Cathedral-Basilica is currently seeking a Music Director and Principal Choirmaster for his Toronto, Ontario-based facility. Interested candidates may consult the attached job description:
A first general meeting at Lac-Bouchette
07/10/17
The members of the Federation of Pueri Cantores Canada gathered at the Saint-Antoine Hermitage at Lac-Bouchette for the annual general meeting at the end of the week. The meeting was embellished by the celebration of the Mass of 11am by Bishop Bouchard as well as a fraternal atmosphere in this place of exceptional pilgrimage.
The Federation of Pueri Cantores Canada finally appears on the web
17/09/17
With the expansion of the Pueri Cantores Canada Federation and the recruitment of Ontario choirs, and hopefully other choirs across Canada, an update of our website was required. It is with pride that we present you all the information of our beautiful organization: the latest news, upcoming events and our contact information to learn more about the Canadian Federation.
13th National Convention in Trois-Rivières
22/05/17
Nearly 200 singers from the Federation of Pueri Cantores Canada gathered at a national convention this weekend. For more information, click here: Nearly 200 young singers gathered in Trois-Rivières.
The Annual General Meeting of Members was held in Trois-Rivières
11/10/16
The last annual general meeting of the members was held October 1, 2016 at the School of the Little Singers of Trois-Rivières. It was under the sign of fraternity that this day unfolded. The members present were treated to an interesting reflection by Monsignor Luc Bouchard, chaplain of the Federation and the election of its directors.
The Federation des Pueri Cantores Canada welcome a new member choir
6/04/16
This is St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto. A certificate of membership was presented to them during their benefit concert held at Loyola High School with the Loyola Choir Choir in Montreal. Here is an excerpt from the greeting from our president addressed to the general manager, Mr. Handrigan.