May 15, 2024 by Lou Morin in Featured 0 Comment
Vox Femina CD now available
At our 2024 Bloom! concert, we welcomed spring and launched our first album in 10 years. The Vox Femina project was a part of Ensemble Laude’s resilience plan after the pandemic shut down so much of our lives. Led by Artistic Director Elizabeth MacIsaac and Associate Director Christina Banman, this album features the 44-voice choir […]
May 10, 2024 by Lou Morin in Featured 0 Comment
Meet Kathryn Whitney
We’re so pleased that Kathryn Whitney is leading Ensemble Laude as our interim Artistic Director for the 2024–25 season. Based on Southern Vancouver Island, Kathryn Whitney is a singer, choral conductor, artistic director, voice teacher and arts entrepreneur. She has been music director of the Newcombe Singers since September 2022. Kathryn is also the founding […]
March 10, 2024 by Lou Morin in Featured 0 Comment
Dr. Elizabeth MacIsaac to take sabbatical
Dr. Elizabeth MacIsaac, founder of Ensemble Laude Choir, will be taking a one-year sabbatical from her role as Artistic Director at the conclusion of Ensemble Laude’s 2023-24 concert season. Under Dr. MacIsaac’s passionate and dedicated leadership the choir has blossomed from a small group of women singing mostly medieval music, to a high-caliber choral performance […]
November 4, 2020 by Meghan Robertson in Featured 0 Comment
10 Reasons Covid Sucks for Choirs
2020 has been stressful in so many ways and for choir singers, choir is our happy place. Just when we most need to gather together to SING, we can’t! We miss our choir buddies! We all have family friends, work friends… and our choir friends! We are used to checking in with each other once […]
September 13, 2018 by Meghan Robertson in Featured, Tours 1 Comment
West Coast East Coast
The taxi driver dumped us off in front of the Memorial University residences at 4:00 am with the assurance that “I’m pretty sure this is the place!” As we unloaded our suitcases and started to search for the door in the dark, I stopped and looked around and took a deep breath of the Atlantic […]
April 12, 2018 by Anne Glover in Commissions, Featured 1 Comment
A Special Project: Collaboration with Composer and Choir
Tonight I sat at the back of a church hall in Victoria, listening to the weekly rehearsal of a 50-voice women’s choir, Ensemble Laude. I’ve heard them in concert many times over the years. Every single time I am inspired and moved to tears by their impeccable and soulful renditions of songs ranging from medieval […]
October 27, 2017 by Meghan Robertson in Concerts, Featured 0 Comment
Spellbound
This season is amping up to be spectacular! We have over 50 beautiful singers, repertoire that director Elizabeth MacIsaac has sourced from 3 countries, and heart, soul and enthusiasm! Spellbound…the very word conjures up images of fascination, imagination, enchantment. This December, Ensemble Laude will enrapture its listeners with songs of beauty and magic from the […]
September 15, 2016 by Meghan Robertson in Concerts, Featured, France 0 Comment
Flight! Tour in France Part 2
From Thoronet, we travelled to Aix-en-Provence, the ancient city of fountains! We were thrilled to sing in the Aix Cathedral, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur, as it is so beautiful and the oldest cathedral in France! According to tradition, the original chapel was built by St Maximinius, accompanied by Mary Magdalene herself, in the first century. Later construction around […]
January 8, 2016 by Meghan Robertson in Featured 0 Comment
A Hive of Honeybees
This is a momentous season in many ways! Ensemble Laude is larger and more vibrant than ever before with 50 singers, an Assistant Director, Composer-in-Residence and Administrator! This year in addition to our regular concerts we also have been invited to perform at the international Choralies festival in France. We are busy as bees! You […]