Performer

A guest performer or ensemble

The Rose Ensemble

Founded in 1996 and based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, The Rose Ensemble reawakens the ancient with vocal music that strives to stir the emotions, challenge the mind, and lift the spirit.

University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers

The University of St. Thomas Chamber Singers is a select, mixed ensemble of undergraduate students representing a number of major fields.

Hannibal Lokumbe

Spanning more than four decades, Hannibal Lokumbe’s career in music continues to propel him forward on a globetrotting odyssey. Lokumbe’s journey has taken him from the cotton fields of Elgin, Texas — where he was first inspired by the spirituals and hymns of his grandparents — to the stages of Carnegie Hall and much of the world.

 

Sowah Mensah

Sowah Mensah is an ethnomusicologist, composer and a “Master Drummer” from Ghana, West Africa. Sowah has taught music in both Ghana and Nigeria and is currently a music professor at both Macalester College, and the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN where he also directs each school’s African Music Ensemble.

Tonia Hughes

Recording artist, actress and community organizer Tonia Hughes is known throughout the Twin Cities for her electrifying delivery style, which fuses elements of Gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and worship. Tonia has garnered critical acclaim for her leading roles in musical and theatrical productions.

Michael Daugherty

Michael Daugherty is one of the most frequently commissioned, programmed, and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today, hailed by The Times (London) as “a master icon maker” with a “maverick imagination, fearless structural sense and meticulous ear.” 

William Bolcom

Composer/pianist William Bolcom has received the Pulitzer Prize in Music for 12 New Etudes for Piano, the National Medal of Arts, and a Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition [one of four awarded the recording of his setting of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience], and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America in 2007. VocalEssence and a number of other arts organization

St. Olaf College Manitou Singers

Comprised of select women's voices from the first year class, the Manitou Singers is one of the most popular music organizations on the St. Olaf College campus. Despite a complete turnover in personnel each year, the 100-voice choir sings at the opening worship service of the college as well as at various campus functions throughout the year such as daily chapel and church services, the annual St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Family Weekend Concert and its own Spring concert in April.

Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra

The Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is Minnesota’s most highly regarded civic orchestral ensemble. MSO concerts have been broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and featured on public television. The Star Tribune has described the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra as “the very model of a modern major orchestra – community style.”

Rodrigo Michelet Cadet Díaz

Born in Mexico in 1983, Rodrigo Michelet Cadet Díaz started his musical studies at the age of eight.  Cadet earned his degree in Musical Composition at the Bellas Artes School of Music under the guidance of Hugo Rosales, Mario Lavista, Alejandro Romero and Georgina Derbez.  Cadet also has a certificate of studies in choir conducting with Digna Guerra, Sergio Cárdenas, Adriana Blagoeva and Alfredo Mendoza.

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