The Choir School of The Paris Boys Choir – also known in France as La Maîtrise des Petits Chanteurs de Sainte-Croix de Neuilly – is, since its creation in 1956 by Louis Prudhomme, the choir school of a wider educational institution: Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix, a reputed Parisian private school. It brings together elementary and junior high school boys wishing to practice choral singing intensively and obtain a top flight musical education. The Choir School was preceded, in the founding years of Notre-Dame de Sainte-Croix in the early 20th Century, by a more loosely structured choir: La Schola.

 

 

The Paris Boys Choir, often considered by major critics as one of France’s most significant and active boys choirs, is currently headed by Conductor & Music Director Francois Polgár, former Choir School student, former Director of the Paris National Opera Chorus (Chœur de l’Opéra National de Paris) and of the French National Radio Choruses (Chœurs et Maîtrise de Radio-France), and “Victoire de la Musique” (France’s equivalent of the Grammy Awards) recipient.

 

 

Music Director & Conductor: Françion Polgàr

 

Douce France / French classic song

Pueri Concinite / Johann von Herbeck

The Sound of Music : Do Re Mi / Richard Rodgers

Vois sur ton chemin / Bruno Coulais

Song and Smile / Gu Jianfen

La Nuit / Jean Philippe Rameau

L’Arlésienne / Georges Bizet

Les Champs-Élysées / French Chanson

Va Pensiero (Nabucco) / Giuseppe Verdi

Les Anges dans nos Campagnes / François-Auguste Gevaert

Lacrymosa / Mozart

Tantum ergo / Gabriel Fauré

Let's Sway Twin Oars / Liu Chi

Immortal Bach / Nystedt

New York, New York / John Kander

Cantique de Jean Racine / Gabriel Fauré

Psalm 150 / César Franck

Hallelujah (Messiah) / George Frideric Handel