***What's New with CAE***

◊ Season finale Silver Jubilee May 8 ◊
◊ Auditions for 2010-2011 will happen in May ◊
◊ Second annual Community Sing is July 13; we're doing Mozart's Requiem◊

"One of the Rochester area's cultural crown jewels" (Rochester Post-Bulletin Oct. 23, 2009)

About the Choral Arts Ensemble

Since its founding by Rick Kvam in 1985, the forty voices of Choral Arts Ensemble have inspired audiences with performances of marvelous choral repertoire. We are beginning our 25th season, the sixth 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 2009-2010 season is our 25th and includes many highlights. Audience favorites at each concert, collaborations with Cantus and VocalEssence, and special commissions are a few of the ways we'll be celebrating our Silver Jubilee all season long. 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 live Christmas recordings, Christmas at Assisi 2005 and Christmas at Assisi 2006; the October 2005 release, Never Be We Mute; our cd of love songs, Seasons of Love, a choral favorites cd, This Shining Night, our new compilation cd, There is a Balm and our newest cd celebrating Minnesota composers, Hail Minnesota, released in October 2008. Our new Christmas cd, Joy to the World, was released in October, 2009.