Ensemble Vocal Katimavik is a choir

Choir

A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 of about 60 singers founded in 1970 in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 by Roger Lessard. It is also a non-profit organization that contributed to foundations against breast cancer

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

 by producing a compact disc

Compact Disc

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History

It was directed by André Beaumier from 1973 to 1978, then by Gaby Billette until 1990. It's now, since 1991, directed by Patrick Brodeur. Its musical genres diversity goes from Renaissance

Renaissance

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

 to 20th century music.

Productions

Since 1970, Ensemble vocal Katimavik produced shows in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

, Saint-Sauveur, Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières

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 and Sherbrooke. It was also featured many times in choir

Choir

A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...

 themed TV show aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

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Some of its greatest productions:

Bach

• Magnificat
  Magnificat (Bach)
  The Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, is a major vocal work of Johann Sebastian Bach. It was composed for orchestra, a five-part choir and four or five soloists. The text is the canticle of Mary, mother of Jesus, as told by Luke the Evangelist .Bach composed an initial version in E flat major in 1723...
  
  , BWV 243 (1987)
• Motet Lobet den Herrn, BWV 230 (1997)
• Messe luthérienne en sol mineur, BWV 235 (1997)
• Cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21 (2001)

Fauré

• Requiem, Op. 48 (1990)
• Jean Racine's cantique, Op. 11 (1994 / 2001)
• The Djinns, Op. 12 (2005)

Mozart

• Messe du Couronnement, K317 (1989)
• Missa brevis en ré majeur, K194 (1995)
• Inter natos mulierum, K72 (1995)
• Requiem, K626 (édition Maunder) (1995)
• Misericordias Domini, K222 (2001)
• Vêpres integral(K193, K321 et K339) (2002)
• Te Deum, K141 (2002)

Vivaldi

• Beatus vir, rv 597 (1984)
• Dixit Dominus, rv 595 (1984)
• Credo, rv 591 (1993)
• Beatus vir, rv 598 (1993)
• Magnificat, rv 610a (1993 / 1997)
• Gloria, rv 589 (1993 / 1999)
• Kyrie, rv 587 (2004)
• In Exitu Israel, rv 604 (2004)