CONTACT: Jennifer Weismann 612-716-0556 Jennifer@owl-marketing.com VOCALESSENCE DIALS BACK THE CLOCK FOR THE RADIO HOUR Twin Cities ensemble celebrates the golden age of radio at A Prairie Home Companion’s Fitzgerald Theater—Mar. 14-15 MINNEAPOLIS — February 12, 2015 — The 32-voice Ensemble Singers and acclaimed Minneapolis actress Christina Baldwin will take center stage at the famed Minnesota… Read More →
Congratulations to pianist, composer, arranger and producer Sanford Moore, who received the Reatha Clark King Award on Sunday, February 8 at the VocalEssence WITNESS: Let Freedom Ring concert at Orchestra Hall and was presented with a one-of-a-kind work of art created by past WITNESS Teaching Artist Ta-Coumba Aiken. The Reatha Clark King Award for Excellence… Read More →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kud0XlhKIvo The WITNESS: Let Freedom Ring concert on Sunday, February 8, will find Orchestra Hall ringing with uplifting messages of love and peace for all humankind, brought by the Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness, directed by Gary Hines, as they join with the VocalEssence Chorus in paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the… Read More →
Dessa and Remix Composer-Mentor Tim Takach share their excitement about VocalEssence ReMix, a new program that offers up to four talented composers/songwriters a six-month one-on-one composer mentorship as they each write a choral work suitable for high school and college-level choirs. “If you make music, you compose, and you should consider applying for one… Read More →
Review: VocalEssence and the Singers bring new work and traditional carols as highlights of the Christmas choral season By WILLIAM RANDALL BEARD, Special to the Star Tribune Updated: December 8, 2014 – 9:00 PM The highlight of this holiday season’s choral concerts will likely be “A Light in the Stable,” by English composer Alan Bullard, written… Read More →
If you are wondering what you missed during the first weekend of Welcome Christmas concerts, these two reviews will fill you in and inspire you to attend one of this weekend’s performances. “The highlight of this holiday season’s choral concerts will likely be A Light in the Stable, by English composer Alan Bullard, written expressly… Read More →
By Rob Hubbard, Special to the Pioneer Press December 5, 2014 An Arctic winter deserves some Christmas music from up around the Arctic Circle. They know something about staying warm on cold nights in the Nordic lands of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, and Friday night’s first of local choral powerhouse VocalEssence’s “Welcome Christmas” concerts… Read More →
Sara Pajunen, who describes herself in this video as a “violinist and fiddler of Finnish-American ancestry,” shares why she is excited to be part of the upcoming Welcome Christmas concerts. It should come as no surprise, since the program celebrates Scandinavian and Nordic yuletide traditions with carols from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. You can… Read More →
“If you make music, you compose, and you should consider applying for one of the four VocalEssence mentorships,” Dessa advises in this video; Dessa and Remix Composer-Mentor Tim Takach share more about VocalEssence ReMix, which offers six-month one-on-one composer mentorships as composers/songwriters create a choral work.
CONTACT: Jennifer Weismann 612-716-0556 Jennifer@owl-marketing.com A WINTER WELCOME ‘JUL’ LOVE! VocalEssence celebrates the holidays with Nordic traditions, plus new cantata and carols MINNEAPOLIS — November 12, 2014 — ’Tis the season for lutefisk, glögg, rødgrød med fløde and Welcome Christmas 2014 — the beloved annual concert series presented by Minneapolisbased choral ensemble VocalEssence. Get into the holiday spirit… Read More →
CONTACT: Jennifer Weismann 612-716-0556 Jennifer@owl-marketing.com AWARD-WINNING YOUTH CHORUS JOINS FORCES WITH VOCALESSENCE Local choral ensemble hosts Young People’s Chorus of New York City®—Nov. 22 MINNEAPOLIS — OCTOBER 30, 2014 — The internationally renowned Young People’s Chorus of New York City® (YPC) is coming to the Twin Cities for a performance that is not to be missed — VocalEssence… Read More →
CONTACT: Jennifer Weismann 612-716-0556 Jennifer@owl-marketing.com TV LEGEND DON SHELBY IS MARK TWAIN: VocalEssence brings historic figure to life in November with River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain Tour MINNEAPOLIS—October 29, 2014—Minneapolis-based choral ensemble VocalEssence will employ choral music and the words of Mark Twain this November to pay homage to life on the Mississippi… Read More →
Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano; Janis Hardy, alto; Dan Dressen, tenor; James Bohn, bass; Chorus of the Plymouth Music Series with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. British feminist Ethel Smyth’s epic Mass in D (1891, revised 1925), Mrs Waters’ Aria from her comic opera The Boatswain’s Mate, and her anthem to the suffragette movement, “March of the Women.”… Read More →
Elisabeth Comeaux, Janis Hardy, LeRoy Lehr, James Bohn; Plymouth Music Series Festival Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. Aaron Copland’s opera examines coming of age in the 1930s. “From the party scene to the soaring love duet, The Tender Land is unfailingly inspired.” — Musical America
Benjamin Britten, W. H. Auden James Lawless, Pop Wagner, Elisabeth Comeaux, Dan Dressen, Vern Sutton, soloists; Plymouth Music Series Festival Chorus with orchestra; Philip Brunelle, conductor. Winner of the 1988 British Gramophone Award for Best Opera Recording.
