VocalEssence

VocalEssence is a non-profit choral music organization based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Each year the organization presents a series of concerts featuring the 130-voice VocalEssence Chorus and its core group, a 32-voice professional mixed chorus called the Ensemble Singers, along with guest soloists and instrumentalists.

[3] A notable local tie in were 1996 and 2024 productions of ABBA pop group members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus' musical Kristina, about a family migrating from Sweden to Minnesota.

[4] The organization has released nine recordings, including four compact discs of classical music by African American composers (The WITNESS Collection), two discs featuring guest artist Garrison Keillor, a recording of American folksongs and the world premiere recording of The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass by Carol Barnett, featuring the bluegrass ensemble Monroe Crossing.

VocalEssence also re-released its world premiere recording of Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest.