Choral Arts Ensemble/Honors Choir of SE Minnesota Music Library
This combined music library includes over 2,000 pieces!​ We have a wide variety of music appropriate for choirs with elementary school through college and semi-professional adult singers. There is something for almost any group! Voicings range from SA, SSA, SAT/B to multi-divisi SATB. You will find old favorites and new releases. Plus, over 100 commissioned pieces.
We are happy to share any piece not in current use by one of our choirs, and you can review the entire library online.
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Commissioned Works
Choral Arts has a long history of commissioning new choral works. In 2025 we added two new pieces to our library of almost 80 commissions.
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2025 Commissions
Modern Oaths
Music and lyrics by Alex Berko
​Commissioned in honor of our 40th Anniversary.
Premiered by our Ensemble Singers on May 3, 2025​
Watch all four movements on YouTube
Between Prairie & Sky
Music by Shruthi Rajasekar
Text by Athena Kildegaard
​The inaugural commission for our Treble Singers.
Premiered on May 3, 2025​
Watch all three movements on YouTube
Other Recent Choral Arts Commissions
Title | Composer | Premiered |
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The Once Invisible Garden | Dale Trumbore | May 2024 |
So Hallow'd is the Time | Eriks Esenvalds | Dec. 2023 |
Things Worth Praising | Timothy Takach | May 2023 |
Underneath My Feet | Jennifer Lucy Cook | May 2023 |
The Lesson | Marques L.S. Garrett | May 2023 |
Orchard in Bloom | Carol Barnett | May 2023 |
It is Morning, Senlin Says | Eriks Esenvalds | March 2023 |
In Dulci Jubilo | Daniel Kallman | Dec. 2022 |
Sorrow Into Song | Christine Donkin | May 2022 |
I Years Had Been From Home | Janika Vandervelde | May 2022 |
Joy Never Leaves | Christopher Harris | March 2022 |
My Dancing Day | Philip Lawson | Dec. 2021 |
Listening | Karen P. Thomas | Oct. 2021 |
Welcome Yule | Linda Kachelmeier | Dec. 2019 |
In Pursuit of that Perfection | Carol Barnett | Oct. 2019 |
A Ketterling Carol | J. David Moore | Dec. 2018 |
The Gift to Sing | Matthew Erpelding | Oct. 2018 |
Pathways | Jeffrey Van | March 2018 |
What Our Good God for Us had Done | Daniel Kallman | Dec. 2017 |
Tagore's Lost Star | Carol Barnett | May 2017 |
The Bird of Dawning | Dale Warland | Dec. 2016 |
Tread Softly | Jeffrey Van | Dec. 2015 |
Glorious, Glorious | Dale Trumbore | Dec. 2015 |
Now Talking God | Rene' Clausen | May 2015 |
My Song | Jake Runestad | May 2015 |
Change My Sorrow Into Song | Dominick DiOrio | 2017 |