Our Mission

Laudate Singers Society is an organization consisting of two choirs - Laudate Singers and Paragon Singers. Laudate Singers is a professional-level mixed chamber choir dedicated to high calibre performances of choral repertoire from medieval to the modern day. It strives to treat its listeners to a wide variety of excellent choral art music, to foster the love of choral music through performances, family events and educational outreach, to strengthen our sense of musical heritage and to commission and perform original Canadian compositions. Paragon Singers is a mixed choir which focuses on major choral/orchestral works along with shorter choral gems both old and new.

Based on the North Shore of Vancouver, both choirs primarily serve the areas of North Vancouver and West Vancouver but also performs further afield.

About LAUDATE SINGERS SOCIETY

Laudate Singers was founded in 1995 under the direction of founder and director Lars Kaario. It offers intriguing choral concerts to its listeners, often collaborating with various professional instrumentalists. It supports its own composer-in-residence and has commissioned and premiered more than 70 choral works. Its 7 CDs are highly acclaimed:

• Christmas Journey
• Songs of Heaven and Earth
• A Baroque Christmas with Ray Nurse and La Cetra
• Celtic Journey with Amy Stephen and Michael Viens
• Voices, Sax & Syn with saxophonists Ross Taggart and Campbell Ryga and moogist Tim Tsang, and
• Voice of the Tango with Tangissimo (Linda Lee Thomas/piano, Ed Henderson/guitar and Jonathan Goldman/bandoneon)
• Mystics and Lovers with Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra.

Laudate's singers are highly trained, most with music degrees. The choir is at home with an eclectic mix of repertoire, and interpret each style convincingly. Indeed, Michael McGlynn, foremost Celtic composer and artist of Riverdance and Anuna fame, says about Celtic Journey, "The combination of such excellent voices under a decisive guiding hand is very refreshing to hear on such a stylistically difficult release. This is easily one of the finest available records in the Celtic genre of vocal music that I have ever heard." 

Paragon means "a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality". 2021-2022 marked Paragon Singers' inaugural season. This 60-voice choir  Paragon Singers offers community, love and musical beauty to both its singers and audiences. 

Please visit www.laudatesingers.com for current information and follow Laudate Singers and Paragon Singers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to know more about us and to share the love of music in general and choral music in particular.