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

◊ Season tickets for 2010-2011 are now on sale. ◊

"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 26th season, the seventh 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 2010-2011 season is full of our usual mix of new and old, from Beethoven and Handel to the premieres of four commissions, and collaborations with guest singers, instrumentalists and a choir from our neighbor to the south, Ames Chamber Artists. We'll have the debut of the Choral Arts Symphonic Chorus for our presentation of Beethoven's Mass in C in October and the tenth and final Mary Joyce Frantz Memorial Christmas Carol in December. Details about the season can be found under the Concert Series heading at the top of this page. 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.