About the choir
One of the oldest choral institutions in Europe, the Escolania de Montserrat traces its history to the 1200s. The fifty-strong all-boys choir provides daily choral music for services at the Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat, perched above the mountains north-west of Barcelona. The school combines rigorous musical training with the boys' general education, and the choir's signature work — the Catalan hymn 'El Virolai' — has made it a national cultural treasure.
