Concerts and Mini-Concerts

Denmark
June 23
19:00 - Concert
Helleruplund Church, Copenhagen (Hellerup)
June 25
12:00 - Mini-Concert
Carl Nielsen Museum, Odense
June 27
16:00 - Concert
Herning Church, Herning
June 28
10:00 - Mass
Herning Church, Herning
June 29
19:30 - Concert
Trinity Church, Esbjerg

Germany
July 1st
19:30 - Concert
Rahlstedt School, Hamburg
July 2nd
12:00 - Mini-Concert during mass
St. Michaelis Church, Hamburg
July 4th
19:30 - Concert
St. Sophien Church, Hamburg

www.pcmr.ca

Fdration des
Pueri Cantores du Qubec

Sopranos

and

Altos

Beaumier, tienne
Bgin, douard Frank
Bolduc-Tremblay, douard
Bouvier, Philippe
Cropas, Gabriel
Dallaire, Flix
Dansereau Macias, Axel
Desparois, Benjamin
Diep, Brian
Forest, Edmond
Knight, Julian
Lalonde, Rmi
Ma, Daniel
Mancio Lopez, Jorge Alejandro
Maranda-Desprez, Alexis
Moran, Carmel
Nault, mile
Normandin, Lambert
Poirier Morin, Julien
Sansot, Victor
Sucatu, Stefan
Tinsley, Florian
Vecchio, Mathias
Veilleux, Simon

Tenors and Basses

Belley, Antoine
Carty, Hugo
Chicoine, Julien
Chira, Tudor
Ct-Parent, Elliott
Dumouchel, Colin
Ferland, Maxence
Franois-Fortin, Andrew
Guvremont-Trudeau, Cyrille
Kinsley, Mathieu
Kowalczyk, Mateusz
Lalonde, Guillaume
Lapointe-Grenier, Olivier
Malo-Melanon, Tho
Manzano, Grant Arden
Melanon, Jean-Christophe
Rabaraona, Charles
Richard, Loc
S.Christin, Victor
Savard, Arnaud
Scott, Matthew
Strubbe, Magellan
Tremblay, Alexis

Les Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal

2015 Concert Tour

Copenhagen Odense Herning Esbjerg Lbeck Hambourg
Juin 21 to July 5

The Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal

Boys Choir School

Mr. Gilbert Patenaude

Musical Director

Gilbert Patenaude has

been the musical director
and choirmaster of the
Boys Choir the Petits
Chanteurs du Mont-Royal
for over 35 years.

The Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal (PCMR)

is a boys choir established in 1956 by Father
Landre Brault, c.s.c., who was inspired by the
great European tradition of boys choir schools
dating back to the 6th century.
Since its foundation, the boys choir has been
fulfilling its mission by providing high quality
singing of sacred works enriching the many
religious ceremonies at St. Josephs Oratory of
Mount-Royal in Montreal, Canada.
Aged 9 to 17, the 210 boys in the PCMR
school come from diverse social and cultural
backgrounds but all share a common passion
for singing. The choirs repertoire ranges from
Gregorian chant to contemporary choral works.
Over the last five decades, the unique
educational project of St. Josephs Oratorys
Boys Choir School has flourished. In addition
to the regular academic curriculum, the choir
school provides advanced musical education
including piano, voice and ear training, as well as
choral singing in sacred and secular repertoire.
Throughout the year, the Petits Chanteurs
du Mont-Royal can be heard at over seventy
religious ceremonies at St. Josephs Oratory of
Mount-Royal and at many concerts.
The choir is often heard on radio and television
and invited to perform abroad. In recent years,
they have sung in Korea, Venezuela, the Czech
Republic, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria
and the USA.
Mrs. Johanne Chantal is the General Director
of the Petits Chanteurs du Mont-Royal Choir
School and Mr. Gilbert Patenaude is the Musical
Director and Choirmaster.

After completing his

musical studies at the
Conservatoire de musique du Qubec (Quebec
Conservatory of Music) in Montreal, he went
to Nice, France and Hilversum, Netherlands, for
advanced musical training.
Since then, he divides his time between
composition and musical direction.
In 1978, Gilbert Patenaude was selected as
musical director for the choir school, thus
becoming the third musical director but the
first lay person to hold this position. His
responsibilities include the musical training
of the boys during the last four years of
elementary school and the five years of high
school. He also serves as choirmaster when the
choristers sing at religious ceremonies held at
Saint Josephs Oratory and at concerts.
Mr. Gilbert Patenaude also devotes a great deal
of his time to composition. He has produced
numerous harmonizations and orchestrations
and has composed many original works
including three operas.
Under his direction the Petits Chanteurs du
Mont-Royal have recorded a number of CDs,
among which Pax Caelestis and the most recent
Ave Maria.

Program

The songs performed will be chosen from the following repertoire

Sacred Music
Justus ut palma florebit

Gregorian Chant

Ubi caritas
Maurice Durufl
Sicut cervus
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Exultate Deo
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Laudate Dominum
Hans Leo Hassler
Motet op. 74 No 2
Johannes Brahms
- O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf
Ave Maria
Giuseppe Verdi
Quatre motets pour le Temps de Nol
- O magnun mysterium
- Quem vidistis pastores dicite
- Videntes stellam
- Hodie Christus natus est

Francis Poulenc

Secular Music
Three Chansons
- Tant que je vivrai
- Je meurs, je meurs damourette
- Or est Bayard en la pture, Hure!

Adam de la Halle

Three folkloric Songs *

- Cest lvent frivolant
- Ctait une frgate
- Fringue, Fringue
Three Folk Songs *
- Blowin in the Wind
- Mr Tambourine
- If I had a Hammer

Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Pete Seeger

Solvejgs Lied *

Edvard Grieg

Trois chansons de Charles dOrlans

- Dieu! quil la fait bon regarder!
- Quand jai ouy le tabourin
- Yver, vous nestes quun villain
* Arrangements by Gilbert Patenaude

Claude Debussy