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COVID-19 Update – April 27, 2020
We hope you are safe and find ways to make the best of this pause that we are experiencing. Below is a status update for our organization. SING WITH US VIRTUALLY While VocalEssence is physically distancing, we continue to look for ways to use the healing power of music to socially connect and keep people… Read More →
Jesu, meine Freude BWV 227 – Bach, Johann Sebastian / Helmuth Rilling Conducts (2004-2005)
Psalm 27 – McFerrin, Bobby / WITNESS: Honoring Langston Hughes (2001-2002)
Psalm 27 – Treece, Roger / WITNESS: Honoring Langston Hughes (2001-2002)
Alma Dei Creatoris, K.277 – Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Immortal Mozart (1987-1988)
Regina Coeli, K.127 – Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Immortal Mozart (1987-1988)
WITNESS: Leading with Love
VocalEssence WITNESS School Program
The VocalEssence WITNESS School Program is an exciting opportunity for Minnesota students and teachers to learn more about the contributions African Americans have made, and are making, to the fine arts and to our shared cultural heritage. Thanks to generous support from our program sponsors, we are pleased to offer tickets to the Student Matinee: WITNESS…
Hope Renewed Digital Concert Program
FEATURING: Melanie DeMore, guest artist VocalEssence Chorus VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Singers Of This Age VocalEssence Vintage Voices Casey Rafn, piano Philip Brunelle, conductor G . Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor
VocalEssence Announces New Executive Director
MINNEAPOLIS—April 17, 2024—VocalEssence is pleased to announce that Amy Wielunski will join the internationally-renowned Twin Cities choral and community-building nonprofit in the role of executive director. A leader with 22 years of experience of cross-functional work at nonprofit organizations with local, state, and national reach, Wielunski was most recently vice-president of membership at Chicago Public…
2022-2023 Supporters
VocalEssence is blessed to have so many committed supporters. Thank you for all that you do to keep our community singing! Although we make every effort to ensure that our Honor Roll list is accurate and complete, we are capable of error. Please let us know if your name does not appear the way you…
Philip’s Favorites 2024
WITNESS: Leading with Love Digital Concert Program
FEATURING: Melanie DeMore, guest artist VocalEssence Chorus VocalEssence Ensemble Singers VocalEssence Singers Of This Age VocalEssence Vintage Voices Casey Rafn, piano Philip Brunelle, conductor G . Phillip Shoultz, III, conductor
In loving memory of Art Kaemmer, 40-year VocalEssence Board Member, 1983-2024
Art was truly a Renaissance man: He deeply loved music; it was not a superficial thing. He was a keen listener, a person who asked fascinating questions of singers and conductors, who found composers to be amazing people that he wanted to learn from, and a man who understood what it takes for a music…