The Harford Choral Society, Inc. is a non-profit, community chorus of approximately fifty musicians located in Harford County, Maryland. These musicians are drawn from Harford County, as well as Cecil and Baltimore counties. In December, 1953, two hundred people from Harford County and the surrounding area got together to perform Handel's Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Having enjoyed the experience and seeing a need for a choral group in the county, The Harford Choral Society was organized in 1954 by Joseph Victor Laderoute, the Society's first Choral Director. The group's first concert as such was in April of that year. Founded with the goal of providing quality choral music, the Society presents two major concerts each season. Members drawn from the larger Harford Choral Society chorus perform in smaller concert venues and present a wide variety of sacred and secular music appropriate for a smaller group of singers. The Society's repertoire ranges from classical choral works by Bach, Mozart, Fauré, Schubert, Haydn and others to more contemporary composers such as Vaughan Williams, Rutter, Britten, Copland, and Bernstein. They also perform works composed by local artists. When the program warrants, the group performs with an orchestra and has worked with the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Conservatory Instrumentalists and members of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. The Society also performs special programs for local groups, hospitals and assisted living facilities.

Concert photo at Bel Air United Methodist Church  Bel Air, Maryland - Dec. 2001 A smaller representative group from the HCS performs in runout concerts and in smaller venues such as a Christmas Concert at Grace Episcopal Church in Darlington, MD. - Dec 2001 The HCS Chamber Chorale  at St Mary Magdalene Mission in Bel Air, MD. - Oct. 2001