VocalEssence – Philip Brunelle, artistic director

This fall, the Westminster Cathedral Choir, the only English church choir to win Gramophone Awards for “Best Choral Recording” and “Record of the Year,” will come to call. This renowned men and boys choir is also the only professional Catholic choir in the world to sing daily Mass and Vespers, which they have been doing since the Cathedral was built in 1903.

Composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst and Herbert Howells have written expressly for the choir; recently, the choir premiered three new masses by Roxanna Panufnik, James MacMillan and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. They will be able to draw on this long tradition for their performance in Saint Paul.

Just as exciting, Westminster Cathedral Choir will give the world premiere of a new work by Minnesota composer David Evan Thomas, his pastoral setting of "With a Glorious Eye."

VocalEssence and Minnesota Public Radio are co-presenting the appearance of Westminster Cathedral Choir of London.