Patricia Abbott joined the choir as Senior Chorale conductor in 1990, and has conducted the Junior Chorale since 1999. In September 2000, she also took on the administration of the choir further to the retirement of choir founder Georgie Crawford.

A graduate of McGill University in Montreal, where she earned a master's degree in vocal pedagogy under the direction of Winston Purdy, she has also studied voice with Henriette Tardif and Gail Desmarais, and conducting with Louis Lavigueur, Patrick Wedd, Wayne Riddell, Nicole Paiement and Jean Ashworth Bartle. She has conducted the Chorale du Gesù women's choir since 1982 and has been a choral music artist-in-residence at FACE School in Montreal since 1996.

Ms. Abbott has adjudicated at provincial and national festivals and competitions throughout Canada and has sat on the jury for the Juno Awards and the CBC Competition for Amateur Choirs upon several occasions. She has guest conducted in Belgium and France, in addition to giving numerous workshops on French-Canadian choral repertoire throughout Canada, in the United States and in Europe.

Ms. Abbott is a member of the artistic committee for the Polyfollia International Choral Showcase in Normandy, France, and she was recently named to the editorial board of The Choral Journal, published by the American Choral Directors Association.

She is the Executive Director of the Association of Canadian Choral Conductors and was the recipient of the 2002 National Choral Award for Distinguished Service given by ACCC.

Quebec's choral federation, the Alliance des chorales du Québec, recently awarded her its order of merit for her contribution to the development of choral music in Quebec over the past 20 years.
 

Anne-Marie Denoncourt, accompanist

Anne-Marie Denoncourt earned a bachelor's degree in piano performance at McGill University before completing a master's degree in accompaniment at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ.

In addition to maintaining a busy piano studio, Ms. Denoncourt accompanies some of Montreal's top choirs and works with many professional and student musicians, notably at McGill University, the Université de Montréal and the Vincent d'Indy music school. Among the groups she has performed with over the years are The Tudor Singers of Montreal, Musica Orbium, the Montreal West Operatic Society, the Ensemble vocal Polymnie, the St. Lambert Choral Society and the Chorale du Gesù.

She also works regularly with the Suzuki Institute of Montreal as well as for the CAMMAC Music Centre where she has been a co-director for more than 20 years