Minnesota Chorale 2025
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    • Emerging Conductor
    • InChoir
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  • Our 24-25 Season
  • Our Programs
    • Bridges
    • Emerging Conductor
    • InChoir
    • Side By Side
  • Our Choirs
    • Symphonic Chorus
    • Minneapolis Youth Chorus >
      • MYC and Prelude Videos
    • Prelude Children's Choir
    • Voices of Experience
    • AUDITION INFO
  • Our People
    • Symphonic Chorus Roster
    • Artistic Staff
    • Administrative Staff
    • Boards
  • Our Story
    • Our Mission, Vision and Values
    • Our Music
    • Our History
  • Your Support
    • Continuo Society
    • Testimonials
    • Sponsorships
    • Financial Info
    • Funders
  • Contact Us
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Our programs


Since 1972, the Minnesota Chorale's education and community engagement programs have aspired to harness the power of the singing voice to promote individual growth and a stronger community. These programs serve differing populations and meet a variety of needs, but they have a common bond – ​they are central to the Chorale's mission and a proud part of our history and identity.
The programs of the Minnesota Chorale harness the power of the human voice to "educate, unite, enrich, and inspire," by...
  • connecting neighbors and communities;
  • enriching young people's educational experiences;
  • encouraging high school tenors and basses;
  • inviting listeners into the process of preparing great choral works for performance.
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Click HERE to learn more
​about our 2024-25 season of 
Bridges including the list of partners, links to programs and more.
The Chorale's Bridges series, begun in 1994 to build musical and social bridges to diverse populations, has been acclaimed as a national model for community engagement programs. Bridges is a series of musical initiatives that harness the richness and diversity of the global choral repertoire to engage cultural communities and raise awareness of pressing social needs.

Each year, the Chorale identifies key program collaborators, whether a community, an organization, an artist, or some combination of these. It then identifies appropriate occasions and venues, locates or commissions suitable repertoire, and tailors a range of outreach, education, and performance activities to accomplish the goals of the program.

The cumulative results of three decades of Bridges programs include a widening of the audience for choral music in the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota, and a web of organizational and individual connections centered on music but reaching far beyond it.
​​Interested in reading more about choral singing ​and community engagement? 
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Click here to download Dr. Shekela Wanyama's thoughtful ​and provocative paper on the subject.

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Emerging Conductor is one of the many education programs offered by the Minnesota Chorale. Conductors – graduate students, area teachers, community conductors, and church music directors – are chosen competitively from across Minnesota and given the opportunity to rehearse symphonic choral repertoire with the Minnesota Chorale. Chorale Artistic Director Kathy Saltzman Romey provides individual coaching and feedback to each participant. The program, which has no regional parallel, gives rising conductors the experience of working with a top-rank symphonic choir.

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Choral singing has the power to draw strangers together as friends in a common musical experience. Since 2002, the Minnesota Chorale's InChoir program has enabled participants to get acquainted with great choral music by singing side-by-side with members of the Chorale at a working rehearsal.
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More than simply a rehearsal, InChoir events are stimulating, engaging choral experiences designed to illuminate music and text while revealing the historical and cultural influences that shaped their creation. Deliberately blurring the line between artists and spectators, InChoir creates opportunities for participants, at any level of musical ability, to get inside the rehearsal process. Hosted and conducted by Chorale Artistic Director Kathy Saltzman Romey, InChoir participants experience close-up and first-hand the gratifying work that culminates in polished performances by one of the finest choruses in the nation.
UPCOMING INCHOIR DATES VISIT HERE.

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a group of singers standing on risers holding choir folders with a soloist singing into a microphone. They are wearing black pants and jackets.
The Chorale's Side By Side program supports high school tenors and basses in their choral singing experience.  In collaboration with high school choirs from the greater Twin Cities metro area, the Chorale brings together tenor and bass vocalists to prepare selected repertoire, which they rehearse and perform side-by-side with partnering schools. ​

2024 participants:
Singers from Minneapolis South, Edison and Como Park high schools performed with the the low voices of the Minnesota Chorale in concert on Friday, November 1st at Minneapolis South High School Auditorium. Special guests, the St. John's University Men's Chorus joined us for an amazing collaboration of what it looks like to keep singing throughout our lives.
A group of singers of varying ages singing on risers. They are all looking toward a conductor and are wearing black shirts and black pants.
Photos (c) Flowering Footprints Photography 2024
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