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    THE 2026-2027 SEASON IS HERE!

    Join us for the 2026–2027 Season, featuring grand masterworks, inspiring collaborations, and transformative experiences that bring our community together.

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  • Teenage participants in the Urban Choir Festival wearing long sleeved shirts of different colors and black pants while clapping and dancing led by an instructor with facial hair and glasses wearing a tan turtleneck and jeans clapping and dancing. Photo Credit: Kara Salava Photography.

    Urban choir festival 2026

    The VocalEssence Singers Of This Age and 100 Festival participants from Twin Cities high schools come together in an exhilarating celebration of song featuring the music of B.E. Boykin and selections highlighting South Africa, Somalia, and more.

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  • Ceiling of the Cathedral of Saint Paul featuring hanging star-shaped lantern. Photo credit Ethan Kellum Johnson.

    Lineage: french Choral Masterworks

    Four generations of French composers converge in an evening of awe-inspiring music performed by more than 200 voices, full orchestra, and twelve harps featuring Hector Berlioz’s epic Te Deum.

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  • "Five Trees" painting by Carolyn Brunelle. Image of abstract trees with dark colored branches without leaves in front of a background with blues, red, and oranges reminiscent of a sunset.

    Available Now! How to Hold On: Songs of Comfort and Solace

    VocalEssence is thrilled to announce a new album, How to Hold On: Songs of Comfort and Solace, featuring Melanie DeMore and the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers is now available!

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    Help us fulfill our mission to draw upon the power of singing together to nurture community, inspire creativity, affirm the value of all persons, and expand the influence of choral music.

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