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The Choir School of the Paris Boys Choir is, since
its creation in 1956 by Louis Prudhomme, the choir school of the Notre
Dame de Sainte Croix school. It brings together the junior high school
boys who want to practice choral singing intensively. The Choir School
was preceded in the founding years of Notre Dame de Sainte Croix, by a
schola.
The Choir, currently headed by Francois Polgar, a former student and former head of the Coeur de Radio France, is considered to be one of the most significant French boys choirs.
It provides music service to the school’s ceremonies, often
participates in major music festivals ( Oxford , Aix -en -
Provence , Auvers -sur - Oise ... ) and regularly performs major works
with orchestra, such as Mozart's Requiem or Handel 's Messiah ... It
also practices, a cappella, a repertoire of songs, both sacred and
secular. Every summer, the Petits Chanteurs go on tour. They have
traveled throughout France, and performed in England, Switzerland,
Ital, Spain, Canada, USA, Russia ...
Their discography reflects a concern for the spiritual elevation
of listeners as well as that… of the singers themselves.
Among other works, they have recorded Faure’s Requiem in its
original version of 1893, a repertoire of motets to the Blessed Virgin,
a cappella motets and Christmas carols.
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