Undergraduate
The Bardot Youth Choir & Orchestra of 120 French students to celebrate the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial at Saint Michael's
Bastille Day Concert, an Exceptional Program
Contact Information:
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The Bardot Youth Choirs and Orchestra of France will perform a 70-voice, 45-instrument, concert at Saint Michael's College on Tuesday, July 14 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel. The Bastille Day Concert is part of Celebrate Champlain, 1609-2009, The Lake, The Land, The People, and is presented by Saint Michael's College free of charge to the public.
French youth musicians from the Choeur d'Enfants et Jeune Choeur d'Ile de France (Children and Youth Choirs of France) and the Jeune Orchestre Symphonique Maurice-Ravel (Maurice Ravel Youth Symphony Orchestra) come together from France for this exceptional program to perform the Mass of Saint Cecile by Gounod and excerpts from the Saint-Saens Symphony with Organ.
Isabelle Sebah, organist, and Vincent Renaud and Francis Bardot, conductors, are leading the performance.
Conductor Francis Bardot, an oratorio tenor soloist, performed in over 2,000 concerts across France, and made some 20 recordings with RCA and Deutsche Grammophon. He conducted the children's choirs of the Opera de Paris for 23 years and ran master classes at UCLA and at Beijing's National Conservatory. For five years now he has been director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Levallois and head of the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel (2,000 sutdents) in Levallois, the home of 350 choir singers, children, students, amateur and professional adult musicians whom he conducts. These include the choirs coming to Vermont.
Choeur d'enfants d'Ile de France is "the culmination of all the children's choirs that Francis Bardot has created and conducted in his career of over 30 years." Bardot's youth choirs perform most of the major works in the choral and oratorio repertoires. They have made over 20 highly praised recordings and receiving two "Orphee d'Or" awards from the French Academie du Disque Lyrique. The choir's 40 summer tours have taken them around the globe. In January 2000 they were conferred the title, Children's Choir of the European Union, by the European Federation of Choirs of the Union.
Jeune Choeur d'Ile de France, a natural extension of the Children's Choir of France, consists of young men and women from 16 to 25 years of age, performing complex works by Poulenc, Handel, Haydn, Durufle, and others.
The Maurice Ravel Youth Symphonie Orchestra. Students join the youth orchestra after several years of instrumental study.
Saint Michael's is a sponsor of the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial celebration.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The Bardot Youth Choirs and Orchestra of France will perform a 70-voice, 45-instrument, concert at Saint Michael's College on Tuesday, July 14 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel of St. Michael the Archangel. The Bastille Day Concert is part of Celebrate Champlain, 1609-2009, The Lake, The Land, The People, and is presented by Saint Michael's College free of charge to the public.French youth musicians from the Choeur d'Enfants et Jeune Choeur d'Ile de France (Children and Youth Choirs of France) and the Jeune Orchestre Symphonique Maurice-Ravel (Maurice Ravel Youth Symphony Orchestra) come together from France for this exceptional program to perform the Mass of Saint Cecile by Gounod and excerpts from the Saint-Saens Symphony with Organ.
Isabelle Sebah, organist, and Vincent Renaud and Francis Bardot, conductors, are leading the performance.
Conductor Francis Bardot, an oratorio tenor soloist, performed in over 2,000 concerts across France, and made some 20 recordings with RCA and Deutsche Grammophon. He conducted the children's choirs of the Opera de Paris for 23 years and ran master classes at UCLA and at Beijing's National Conservatory. For five years now he has been director of Cultural Affairs for the City of Levallois and head of the Conservatoire Maurice Ravel (2,000 sutdents) in Levallois, the home of 350 choir singers, children, students, amateur and professional adult musicians whom he conducts. These include the choirs coming to Vermont.
Choeur d'enfants d'Ile de France is "the culmination of all the children's choirs that Francis Bardot has created and conducted in his career of over 30 years." Bardot's youth choirs perform most of the major works in the choral and oratorio repertoires. They have made over 20 highly praised recordings and receiving two "Orphee d'Or" awards from the French Academie du Disque Lyrique. The choir's 40 summer tours have taken them around the globe. In January 2000 they were conferred the title, Children's Choir of the European Union, by the European Federation of Choirs of the Union.
Jeune Choeur d'Ile de France, a natural extension of the Children's Choir of France, consists of young men and women from 16 to 25 years of age, performing complex works by Poulenc, Handel, Haydn, Durufle, and others.
The Maurice Ravel Youth Symphonie Orchestra. Students join the youth orchestra after several years of instrumental study.
Saint Michael's is a sponsor of the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial celebration.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
