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***What's New with CAE***
Announcing a call for scores for a composition contest.
Since 1985, the forty voices of Choral Arts Ensemble have inspired audiences with performances of marvelous choral repertoire. We have just finished our 23rd season, the fourth under Artistic Director Michael Culloton.
Choral Arts Ensemble is equally dedicated to the creation and performance of exciting new music as well as the sensitive presentation of masterworks from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.
(Click here for a list of performed repertoire)
The 2007-2008 season included four unique programs of widely varied, superb a cappella and choral/orchestral repertoire, featuring Parts II & III of Handel's Messiah as well the premieres of three newly commissioned works. Auditions are held each spring, usually in May.
Choral Arts Ensemble coordinates the Rosemary and Meredith Willson Harmony for Mayo Program, a program of Mayo Center for Humanities in Medicine. Free weekly concerts are held Mondays from 12:10-1:00 pm on the Mayo Clinic Campus, featuring a variety of music ranging from classical to country. Concerts are open to patients, staff, visitors, and the general public. Small groups from within Choral Arts Ensemble also have performed for various community events.
Audiences can also enjoy Choral Arts Ensemble music at home. The Ensemble has discography that includes Christmas recordings, Christmas at Assisi (sold out) and Make We Joy: Christmas at Assisi II; the critically-acclaimed album of works by Minnesota composers, Minnesota Voices (sold out); Simple Gifts (released 2002), and the October 2005 release, Never Be We Mute (sold out).
We also have available our Christmas at Assisi 2005 and Christmas with Choral Arts Ensemble 2006 live concert recordings, our cd of love songs, Seasons of Love, and our newest cd, This Shining Night, released in March 2008.
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