Musical and Cultural Activities

Chalmers-Wesley has always had an important outreach program through the use of music. This is most evident in our Summer Organ Concert Series and our Sing Along Messiah, as both have been initiated by the Congregation. Other musical activities also take place through our rental program, as with the Conservatoire de musique de Québec that also provide concerts to the general public.

Alain LeBlond

Chalmers-Wesley's Music Director, Alain was born in Quebec City in 1957 and was probably destined to be a musician. His maternal grandmother was a cousin of Omer Létourneau (the organist in Saint-Sauveur), and played piano beautifully by ear. At the age of three, Alain began to follow his father, maître de chapelle at Notre-Dame-de-Pitié, to services. All during the service ‘I would stand next to the organist, Monsieur Vincent Bédard, the father of Denis’.

Alain started playing the organ at fifteen and entered the Conservatory three years later, where he formed a lifelong bond with his composition teacher, Pierick Houdy. M. Houdy says this of him  "…He has the qualities which make real musicians: imagination, original viewpoint, technique, and humor, without which the art (of composition) is only a system."

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