Laudate Singers is a professional-level chamber choir based on Vancouver’s North Shore. The choir performs at West Vancouver United Church.
The choir’s Artistic Director, Lars Kaario, is retiring. For that reason, 2025 was the final year for the choir! The choir played its last performance on Saturday, April 12th. Click A French Affair for details about the group’s final performance.
Laudate Singers Choir Concerts
Laudate Singers is a chamber choir based on the North Shore. Lars Kaario founded the group in 1995. Lars is the choir’s Artistic Director. The choir consists of about 14 members. Together, they are a professional-level chamber choir. The group celebrates Canadian choral music with various concerts in the Lower Mainland. Some are free and others are ticketed.
The choir is an impressive group. In fact, it has released several critically-acclaimed records over the years. The choir also mentors young composers and collaborates with other talented singers and musicians.
Paragon Singers
Paragon Singers is a newer choir that formed in 2021. It is also under the umbrella of Laudate Singers Society and is directed by Lars Kaario. However, Paragon Singers is an intermediate-level choir. It is also a much larger group, with about 60 members. All singers in this second choir have at least some previous choral experience, and they had to complete an informal audition to join the group. Paragon Singers performs a variety of different choral works, including well-known pieces and shorter works.
Choir Concerts
For its 2024-2025 season, Laudate Singers Society’s choirs had three regular series concerts, two community outreach concerts, and a gala fundraiser. Dates and details for the group’s final two concerts in 2025 are below.
Passion: A Farewell Note
March 2nd, 2025
The Laudate Singers continued its 2024-2025 season with a concert showcasing the works of Bruce Sled, Chris Sivak, Bruckner, MacMillan and other composers. The event took place at 3:00 pm on Sunday, March 2nd, 2025, at West Vancouver United Church located at 2062 Esquimalt Avenue in West Vancouver. Admission cost $15 for people ages 35 and under, and either $35 or $40 for everyone else. The event was sung a cappella and could also be viewed live online for $20.
Click A Farewell Note for more information.
Check out the following video (which features the Laudate Singers performing a cappella piece I am a Fountain, You are my Water by André Luiz Machado) for an idea of what the concert would have been like.
A French Affair
April 12th, 2025
The final event of the season (and likely for the choir ever) happened on Sunday, April 12th, 2025. It featured the Laudate Singers, Paragon Singers, Baroque Orchestra and other guests. The show began at 3:00 pm at West Vancouver United Church. Online viewing was available for $25. Tickets to attend the show cost $15 for ages 35 and under, $40 for seniors, and $45 for adults.
Click A French Affair for details about this concert.
Laudate Choir Video
Check out the video below for an idea of what the choir sounded like. It shows scenes from one of its concerts at West Vancouver United Church in 2024. The concert was with both the Laudate Singers and the Paragon Singers.
Other Information
See the laudatesingers.com website to learn more about the choir.
Note: Laudate Singers Society is grateful to live and work on the traditional unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Laudate Singers Society gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver through the Arts & Culture Grants Program of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission. It also gratefully acknowledges the District of West Vancouver through the district’s community grant programs, the Province of BC, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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