The Little Singers of Paris

Date: May 31 - 7:30 pm

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts

In the summer of 1906, two young students, Pierre Martin and Paul Berthier, were on vacation in the abbey of Tamie in Savoy. They came up a "dream" which plans to start a choir school for child choristers that would travel from church to church, town to town, to carry the living testimony of the authentic tradition of religious music. Their dream came true in the next year. Despite the lack of money, their enthusiasm brought them to settle in an old dwelling in Paris suburb and they started to receive their first scholar. This was the birth of The Little Singers of Paris. The first rehearsal took place on Jan 10, 1907 and the first concert was held in the Parish Church of the Kings of France in October in the same year. It was well-received by music lovers in Paris. The Little Singers of Paris were soon become popular throughout France.