The Canadian conductor, Bernard Labadie, is one of Québec's most active musicians. He studied recorder and voice before devoting himself to choral and orchestral conducting.

Bernard Labadie is a graduate of the School of Music of Laval University in Québec City, where he conducted his first concerts, including Purcell's Dido and Æneas, which he directed at the age of nineteen. He also directed the Québec premiere of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea in 1984. He took honours in harmony and counterpoint at the Québec and Montréal Conservatoires, and was recipient of bursaries from the Ministry of Culture of Québec and the Canada Council for the Arts. He has studied Gregorian Chant with the renowned Dom Jean Claire at the Abbaye Saint-Pierre-de-Solesmes, and conducting with Simon Streatfeild, Pierre Dervaux and John Eliot Gardiner.