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Monday, May 20, 2024 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – It’s time for youth to take to the stage! On Monday, May 20, after the PODIUM 2024 conference and festival has wrapped up, youth choirs and young choristers will come together to sing with renowned vocal quartet QW4RTZ! This bilingual event will provide an exceptional opportunity for young people to sing with a few hundred […]

Sunday, May 19, 2024 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm – For the closing concert of its 2024 edition, the Podium festival offers an exceptional intercultural dialogue curated and conducted by André Pappathomas featuring all Quebec-based artists, including: Latin American group Canticorum (Rodney Hinojosa), Rwandan group La chorale Singiza (Honoré Iradukunda), Romanian group La Muse (Ioana German), Haitian group Haïti chante et danse (Marie-Claire Léveillée), a […]

Saturday, May 18, 2024 @ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm – Choirs and singing groups from across Canada and beyond responded to the PODIUM 2024 National Committee’s call for proposals to perform at the Festival in Montreal. Nine exceptional groups were chosen by the Selection Committee to perform a variety of concert programs, highlighting different styles, composers, and music creators. Each concert is designed to expand […]

Saturday, May 18, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – In December 2014, the UN General Assembly proclaimed the years 2015 to 2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent. The main objective of this decade is to strengthen actions and measures that ensure the full enjoyment of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights of people of African descent, and their full […]

Friday, May 17, 2024 @ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm – Choirs and singing groups from across Canada and beyond responded to the PODIUM 2024 National Committee’s call for proposals to perform at the Festival in Montreal. Nine exceptional groups were chosen by the Selection Committee to perform a variety of concert programs, highlighting different styles, composers, and music creators. Each concert is designed to expand […]

Friday, May 17, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – In May 2022, University of British Columbia’s Chancellor Steven Lewis Point of Skowkale First Nation said, “Reconciliation is the song we sing together.” Ahskennon’nia, meaning “peace” in the Huron-Wendat language, lays the musical foundation of this Indigenous-led collaboration featuring Andrée Levesque Sioui (Wendat singer-songwriter), Sylvia Cloutier (Inuk performing artist), Choeur des enfants de Montréal (Eun […]

Thursday, May 16, 2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The National Youth Choir of Canada is a project of Choral Canada and is one of Canada’s finest youth choirs. It is a one-of-a-kind professional development opportunity for some of Canada’s best emerging choral singers. Truly national in scope, the prestigious choir is made up of singers between the ages of 19 and 26 who […]

Thursday, May 16, 2024 @ 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm – Choirs and singing groups from across Canada and beyond responded to the PODIUM 2024 National Committee’s call for proposals to perform at the Festival in Montreal. Nine exceptional groups were chosen by the Selection Committee to perform a variety of concert programs, highlighting different styles, composers, and music creators. Each concert is designed to expand […]