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Hear our community come together as hundreds of students join VocalEssence to celebrate Mexico in song at the VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert. The culmination of a year-long composer-in-residence program, this bilingual concert includes premieres and an audience sing-along that will leave you with a renewed hope that music can change the world. In 2018-2019, students met with acclaimed composer Pablo Mendoza Halliday over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Music Theater in Saint Paul, MN on Tuesday, May 21, 2019.
Download the 2019 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert Program
Featuring: VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
Field Community School, Minneapolis
Harding High School, St. Paul
Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion School, New Hope
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Hear our community come together as more than 500 students join VocalEssence to celebrate Mexico through song at the VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! 10th Anniversary Concert. The culmination of a year-long composer-in-residence program, this bilingual concert includes premieres and an audience sing-along that will leave you with a renewed hope that music can change the world. In 2017-2018, students met with acclaimed composers Alma Jimena Contreras Cortés (for elementary students) and Bernardo Feldman (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Music Theater in Saint Paul, MN on Tuesday, May 22, 2018.
Download the 2018 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! 10th Anniversary Concert Program
Featuring: Burroughs Community School, Minneapolis
Como Park Senior High School, Saint Paul
Osseo Senior High, Osseo
Park Spanish Immersion School, St. Louis Park
Prairie Seeds Academy, Brooklyn Park
Rosemount High School, Rosemount
VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
G. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor
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Hear our community come together as more than 500 students join VocalEssence to celebrate Mexico through song. Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. In 2016-2017, students met with acclaimed composers Rodrigo Cadet (for elementary students) and Samuel Pascoe (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
Download the 2017 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert program
Featuring:
Highland Park Senior High School, Saint Paul
Washburn High School, Minneapolis
VocalEssence Chorus
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Irondale High School, New Brighton
G. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductorMary Jo Gothmann, pianoElise Parker, violinJane Cords O’Hara, celloJeff Bina, percussion
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Hear our community come together as more than 500 students join VocalEssence to celebrate Mexico through song. Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. In 2016-2017, students met with acclaimed composers Rodrigo Cadet (for elementary students) and Samuel Pascoe (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
Download the 2017 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert program
Featuring:
Meadow Lake Elementary School, New Hope
Richard R. Green Central Park School, Minneapolis
VocalEssence Chorus
Adams Spanish Immersion School, Saint Paul
G. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductorMary Jo Gothmann, pianoElise Parker, violinJane Cords O’Hara, celloJeff Bina, percussion
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Experience the music of our southern neighbors at a multi-generational fiesta! Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. In 2015-2016, students met with acclaimed composers Alephsus Valdés (for elementary students) and Francisco Zúñiga Olmos (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN on Monday, May 23, 2016.
Download the 2016 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert program
Featuring:
Champlin Park High School, Champlin
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Minneapolis
Northport Elementary School, Brooklyn Center
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
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Experience the music of our southern neighbors at a multi-generational fiesta! Prominent Mexican composers work as composers-in-residence with school choirs, community choruses, and VocalEssence to bring the sounds of Mexico to Minnesota. In 2015-2016, students met with acclaimed composers Alephsus Valdés (for elementary students) and Francisco Zúñiga Olmos (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Concert Hall in Saint Paul, MN on Monday, May 23, 2016.
Download the 2016 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert program
Featuring:
Longfellow Alternative High School (Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project Partner), Minneapolis
Folwell School, Performing Arts Magnet, Minneapolis
Hiawatha Leadership Academies, Minneapolis
Central High School, Saint Paul
VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
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¡Viva México! Listen to what critics call “a feast for the senses” with a cappella Mexican vocal ensemble Voz en Punto. Earning the admiration of Bob Chilcott and Bobby McFerrin, Voz en Punto wows audiences not only with their technical perfection, but also their infectious, sophisticated, and humorous performance. A mix between The Real Group, Manhattan Transfer, and The King’s Singers, Voz en Punto sings spirited and juicy arrangements of Mexican folk songs that will put a smile on your face and have you clamoring for more!
Download the Voz en Punto Concert Program
Voz en Punto
José Galván, director
Please note: VocalEssence did not perform on this concert.
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The VocalEssence 47th season opened with a special tribute to U.S. military Veterans. Listen to the soldier’s journey from survival to hope and healing through Samuel Barber’s beautiful Adagio for Strings, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s mystical Toward the Unknown Region, Jocelyn Hagen and Dessa’s Controlled Burn and the Midwest premiere of Minnesota composer Jake Runestad’s poignant Dreams of the Fallen, with special guests soprano Maria Jette, pianist Jeffrey Biegel and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Download the Dreams of the Fallen concert program
VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers
Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Jeffrey Biegel, pianistMaria Jette, sopranoPhilip Brunelle, conductorG. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor
William Schrickel, conductor
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Experience the music of our southern neighbors at a multi-generational fiesta! As part of its commitment to celebrating different cultures through choral art, VocalEssence pairs two Mexican composers-in-residence with elementary and high school choirs as well as community choruses across the Twin Cities to explore Mexico’s cultural and choral tradition. In 2014-2015, students met with acclaimed composers Jean Angelus Pichardo (for elementary students) and Julio Morales (for high school students) over three visits, for a total of four weeks between October and May, to collaborate and compose eight new choral pieces; the final works premiered at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, May 21, 2015.
Download the 2015 VocalEssence ¡Cantaré! Community Concert program
VocalEssence Chorus
Adams Spanish Immersion, St. Paul
Blaine High School, Blaine
Minnehaha Academy Lower School, Minneapolis
Park High School, Cottage Grove
Partnership Academy, Richfield
Southwest High School, Minneapolis
Youth Choir of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, St. Paul
Jean Angelus Pichardo, composer and conductorJulio Morales, composer and conductorG. Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor
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It’s been 50 years since Professor Peter Schickele released P.D.Q. Bach on an unsuspecting musical public. And it’s been 80 years since the professor’s mother released him on a society ill-prepared for such singular genius. And now, because everyone loves a birthday, Professor Schickele has reached back across the decades to explore the damp vaults and dusty attics of Leipzig to once again celebrate the twenty-first child (out of twenty) of the great J.S. Bach, called the “youngest and oddest.” This special, once in a half-century, musical extravaganza features the crème de la crème of history’s most justifiably neglected composer as well as some enchanting works by Peter Schickele himself, performed by VocalEssence and the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble.
Download the P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele Birthday Bash concert program
VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers
University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble
Craig Kirchhoff, conductor
Philip Brunelle, conductor
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Classical Minnesota Public Radio Host John Birge interviews composer Peter Schickele before the VocalEssence P.D.Q. Bach & Peter Schickele Birthday Bash performance on Friday, April 10, 2015. It’s been 50 years since Professor Peter Schickele released P.D.Q. Bach on an unsuspecting musical public. And it’s been 80 years since the professor’s mother released him on… Read More →
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