Scholar of Sacred Music · Conductor · Performer · Teacher
Laine Tabora (b. 1990) Dr. art.,
She is a Latvian choral conductor, teacher, and researcher specializing in Western liturgical and sacred music, with a particular focus on Gregorian chant. She is based in the Netherlands and brings extensive international experience. She holds degrees in music education, choral conducting, and Gregorian chant, having studied at the Latvian Academy of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague, and the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
She studied conducting with S. Kļava, J. Vermunt, W. Mandemaker, M. Ozoliņš, and R. Gulikers, and pursued advanced studies in Gregorian chant and medieval music with leading scholars and performers of the field, among them F. K. Prassl, J. B. Göschl, H. Rumphorst, A. Turco, F. Rampi, and J. C. Ascensio. Her academic formation has been further enriched by studies in the theology of the liturgy, which inform both her research and interpretative practice.
Laine Tabora has performed as a singer, soloist, and conductor with various ensembles throughout the Baltic States, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Croatia, France, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, and the United States.
Performer
“The most sensitive musical instrument is the human soul.”
A. Pärt
International ensemble
Graces & Voices
Since 2017, she has been a member of the internationally acclaimed female vocal ensemble Graces and Voices, with which she regularly performs and records.
Schola Cantorum
Vox Iubilantis
In 2017, she founded Schola Cantorum Vox Iubilantis (Latvia), an ensemble dedicated to historically informed interpretations of medieval vocal repertory, while also exploring its dialogue with contemporary musical expressions and promoting medieval music to wider audiences.
Collaborations and Projects
Alongside her artistic leadership—combining singing and conducting—she engages in project-based interdisciplinary collaborations, curating programmes and performing as a soloist and ensemble musician.
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
V. Hugo
Church musician
“The proper function of sacred music is to serve the Logos, making the word audible in its spiritual depth”
J. Ratzinger
Music Institute of
St. Bavo Cathedral–Basilica in Haarlem
Since 2022, she has served as conductor of the choirs of the Music Institute of St Bavo Cathedral–Basilica in Haarlem, the Netherlands, as part of the institute’s music team, regularly providing music for liturgical celebrations and cathedral services with the institute’s various choirs.
Since 2020, Laine has served as conductor of the women’s section of the Schola Cantorum Amsterdam, a distinguished Gregorian chant ensemble founded in 1959 that sings liturgical offices, especially Gregorian Vespers in Amsterdam’s St. Nicholas co-Cathedral Basilica.
Schola Cantorum Amsterdam
“Psallite Deo nostro Psallite: Psallite Regi nostro psallite. Psallite sapienter!”
Cf. Ps. 46:7
