Live Performances

During a recording session at Central Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, Lumina performs the rare early-American hymn ‘Bromley,’ a beautiful 1819 church song based on a Haydn tune. Enjoy!

During a recording session at Central Presbyterian Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, Lumina performs the rare early-American hymn ‘Marlon,’ a beautiful 1846 church song based on a Schubert tune. Enjoy!

Voces8 presents an achingly beautiful performance of two works by Minnesota composers, Stephen Paulus' "The Road Home" and Jake Runestad's "Let My Love Be Heard," seamlessly sung together. This is our third video from the British group's concert in 2020 with STMA Choirs in St. Michael, Minnesota. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

We are thrilled to present the premiere of a new virtual performance by a group of 20 international choral all-stars! ‘My Soul Is a Candle’ is the fifth movement from Minnesota choral composer Jake Runestad’s ‘The Hope of Loving.’

Listen as the talented students of the St. Michael-Albertville Concert Choir, under the direction of Joe Osowski, join Voces8 on Blake Morgan's arrangement of Dougie MacLean's timeless song, ‘Caledonia.’

‘Let There Be Peace on Earth’ (arr. by Mark Hayes) concluded a two-day festival called ‘Reconnecting Through Art/Reunidos en Arte.’ Concerts in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, were held to promote community and healing through the arts.

We had chills as Tesfa Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, conductor of St. Olaf College’s Viking Chorus, closed a recent rehearsal with his gentlemen standing in a circle, singing Troy Robertson’s moving ‘In Meeting We Are Blessed.’ We share it, hoping the same for you.

VocalEssence Singers of This Age (SOTA) is an ensemble of Minneapolis-St. Paul high school students who sing, dance, write their own music and reflect the diversity of their community. Listen as they perform “Peace Within the Hate,” which the singers co-created, under the direction of G. Phillip Shoultz III (also on piano).

We want to share the power of classical with people in the community, in places where they least expect it but where they could benefit from a little “feel better, live bigger” — like this performance by Cantus at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Choral music is powerful. It can make us feel better and live bigger. We at Classical MPR want to share this power with people in the community, in places where they least expect it but where they could benefit from a little “feel better, live bigger.”