Canadian Reflections with Laudate Singers

Laudate Singers celebrates Canadian music with both new and old pieces written for Laudate by its composers-in-residence. This will be the first concert to include pieces by André Luiz Machado, the current composer working with Laudate. André is an accomplished composer already, having written for film, television, games and the concert hall. He is working with Laudate to extend his art to choral composition. The Singers will premiere two songs by André – I am a fountain, You are my water and A Dance of Bliss, both wonderfully multicultural in sound with beautiful mystical, inspiring texts. Michael Creber will play two of André’s piano works as well. Also on the program are some past commissions by Chris Sivak, Kristopher Fulton, Bruce Sled and Emile Deedes-Vincke. Rounding out the program are some favourites by Stan Rogers, Donald Patriquin and Dave Baker/Larry Nickel. This variety of rousing folk songs, multicultural inspirations, soft jazzy atmospheres and word painting invoking landscape, is sure to please both ears and spirit.