Thank you for your support during our 37th Season
More information on the 2022 - 2023 Season coming soon ~
Enjoy your summer!

2021 - 2022 Concerts

According to a Chinese aphorism, “women hold up half the sky”—we are all blessed when our community and world work to unleash everyone’s full potential. 2020 marked the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the culmination of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. We celebrate this great success (just a bit delayed) while recognizing that much of the work of attaining gender equality remains undone.  Rochester Mayor Kim Norton and Ally Hanten Ebert, Executive Director of the Jeremiah Program, will be our special guests for a concert of all female composers.

Concert Rescheduled!
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Singing for Life - HS Festival

Bethel Lutheran Church
810 3rd Ave SE, Rochester, MN

This year's High School Festival welcomes the singers of CANTUS back to SE MN for workshops with the students from Kasson-Mantorville, Kenyon-Wanamingo & the SE MN Honors Choirs!  The festival concert will include short sets from each youth choir, a Choral Arts Ensemble set, & two sets by CANTUS.  This is a wonderful opportunity to hear great choirs of all ages - & all for just $10/person!  Order your tickets now.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr said that “where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Working to support local non-profits who are focused on homelessness and insufficient low-income housing, CAE will sing of the joys of home and point to every human’s need for it. 

Our annual celebration of the season will take place at the base of the Assisi property in the sanctuary at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church.  The program will feature My Dancing Day, a new piece by Grammy award-winning composer Philip Lawson as the tenth and final installment of the Ketterling Carol series.

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Listen to music from a diverse group of composers across time. You'll hear chants, spirituals, and folk songs, all on themes of Faith, Love, Hope, and Life.  Plus Listening, a newly commissioned piece by Karen P. Thomas, Artistic Director of the Seattle Pro Musica.​