2022-2023 Season

We invite you to attend a concert during our 2022-2023 Season!

We are excited about our 2022-2023 concert season and invite you to experience music that will move your soul!

Advance tickets are now on sale (save $5 per ticket) online or by calling the Exultate office at: 651-707-0727. Your flex ticket may be used at any concert location or date throughout the season. General admission tickets purchased in advance of the each concert weekend are only $10 (under Age 30 or Student with ID), $25 (Senior 65+) and $30 (Adult).

Tickets purchased at the door are $15 (Under Age 30 or Student with ID), $30 (Senior 65+) and $35 (Adult).

Preferred seating is an additional $5 per ticket. (you receive the best seats up front!)

PLEASE NOTE: All audiences are encouraged to wear masks at all times. Please check each venue for additional health protocols.

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The 7 Last Words of Christ – Théodore Dubois (and other passionate music) (COMPLETED)

Concerts: March 31, April 1, 2, 2023 –

Hear Exultate’s Festival Choir and Orchestra perform the much-loved The 7 Last Words of Christ by 19th Century French composer Théodore Dubois. This poignant and passionate work will be performed with full orchestra, choir and soloists.

SOLOISTS: Rachel Farhi, soprano; Nicholas Chalmers, tenor; Brian Haase, bass.

The concert also includes other deeply moving anthems and motets for the Lenten Season.

Since the 17th century, composers have written music based on the last seven words Jesus spoke from the cross. From Heinrich Schütz (1645) to Joseph Haydn (1787), César Franck (1859) and Knut Nystedt (1960), the tradition continues in the 21st century with settings by Paul Carr (2013), Michael John Trotta (2016), and Pamela Decker (2018).   

Parisian composer Théodore Dubois’ setting in 1867 is perhaps the favorite setting of them all. Our performance will be a rare event where the original instrumentation for full orchestra, choir and soloists is used. (It is most often performed using organ, harp and percussion only.) It will also be sung in English. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear this moving music along with other incredibly inspiring music for choir and orchestra in fabulous acoustical settings.

Are you a singer – Interested in joining the Exultate Festival Choir for this project? Click here for information.

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Music to be Performed:

  • Théodore Dubois – The Seven Last Words of Christ (choir, soloists, orchestra)
  • Henry Purcell – Lord, How Long Wilt Thou be Angry (full verse anthem)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Crucifixus (from B Minor Mass)
  • Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus (8-part choral)
  • J.S. Bach – Largo (from Concerto for Two Violins)
  • Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings)
  • Felix Mendelssohn – As the Deer Yearns (Psalm 42)
  • J.S. Bach – Here We Sit Down (from St. Matthew Passion)

SEVEN LAST WORDS – CONCERT VENUES:

Friday, March 31, 2023 – 7:30 p.m.
Normandale Lutheran Church
6100 Normandale Road, Edina

Saturday, April 1, 2023 – 7:30 p.m.
Holy Cross Catholic Church
1621 University Avenue NE, Minneapolis

Sunday, April 2, 2023 – 4:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Avenue South, Minneapolis

The Keyboard Works of J. S. Bach – SOLD OUT – (COMPLETED)

An intimate in-home performance and reception featuring Evan Shinners

  • Concert and Reception: Tuesday, December 27, 2022 – 7:00 PM (limited to 45 in attendance) – $40.00
  • Rossin Music Hall • 1433 Highview Avenue • Eagan

Inaugural Concert in the Rossin Home Music Hall

A very rare musical event is coming soon. Limited to only 45 audience members, this concert will feature the marvelous artistry of pianist, Evan Shinners performing Johann Sebastian Bach keyboard Preludes and Fugues and telling the story of Bach and his ‘cool’ music! (He’s funny, engaging and is a world-class musician!) Read more below but don’t wait very long to order tickets. They will be gone quickly!

The Artist

Evan Shinners began his musical studies at age 9 and made his orchestral debut at age 12. He attended The Juilliard School in New York where he studied piano with Jerome Lowenthal and earned both the Bachelor of Music (BM) and the Master of Music (MM) degrees.

Since 2010, Evan has devoted himself almost exclusively to the study and performance of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In 2012 he began a campaign to ‘Bach-upy America,’ to perform Bach in non-traditional venues in 48 states.

In 2015 Evan began a massive recording project of Bach’s complete solo keyboard music on Bösendorfer instruments. In 2018 he founded a non-profit organization with the goal of ‘bringing Bach to the masses in non-typical venues.’ Awarded the ‘Alumni Enterprise Award’ by the Music Academy of the West, in November of 2018 Evan opened ‘The Bach Store’ in a 5,000 sq. ft. former bank on 56th and Broadway in Manhattan. There, he performed Bach for five hours every day for 37 consecutive days. His efforts landed him on the front page of the New York Times Arts and the Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Shinners is also the host of the ambitious, ‘The WTF Bach Podcast’ who’s first season seeks to explain the beauty and structure of ‘The Art of Fugue’ to someone with no previous musical knowledge. Fugues are dissected, played with voices isolated into different speakers, even played backwards or upside-down.

Since 2015 Evan Shinners has performed nearly all of the solo keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach from memory.

The Rossin Home Music Hall Experience

Built during the COVID epidemic, the Rossin Home Music Hall was added on to the home of the Exultate Artistic Director, Thomas Rossin and his wife, Laurie. The purpose of the space is to help emerging artists become better known to the public. (musicians, visual artists, dancers, poets and others). For this event, Even Shinners will not only be performing a concert but will also spend the two days following his performance recording professional CDs in the space using its “built-in” recording equipment.
 
Join us in this beautiful space and experience an excellent performance while enjoying wine and hors d’oeuvres and visiting with the artist as well as other art lovers in the community.

Tickets

Adults Only Please – $40
(Your ticket includes slippers to wear, hors d’oeuvres and wine to share and magnificent music to move and inspire you.)
 
(Schmitt Music of Minnesota has graciously sponsored this performance by gifting the use of a Steinway Grand Piano for use at the concert and the subsequent recording sessions. Exultate is very grateful for this marvelous partnership. Please support Schmitt Music – your source for fine instruments and instrumental lessons.)

COVID Protocol

Because of the resurgence of COVID in the community in recent days we are requiring a COVID test (at home is fine) within 24 hours of attending this event. You will simply need to take a test and report the result via email to the hosts. That’s it. No masks are required but you may wear one if you so choose. We all want to stay safe and healthy. (If you purchase tickets instructions will follow.) Thanks so much.
 

A Wondrous Noel – Christmas Festival Concerts (COMPLETED)

December 9, 10, 11, 2022

NOTE: Tickets are no longer available since the concerts are completed. Thank you to the hundreds who attended.

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Exultate celebrates the joy of the Christmas Season with carols both old and newly written for choir and orchestra. Hear glorious music in wonderful acoustic settings.

Many of you met the world-renowned composer, Paul Mealor, at our April 2022 performances of his Oratorio, Crucifixus (CD recordings available HERE). We had so much fun working together that Professor Mealor has written a 20-minute cornucopia of Christmas Carols especially for Exultate Choir and Orchestra! We have invited the composer to join us at the World Premiere of this fabulous new work, A Wondrous Noel. He will be present at the performances on December 9 & 10, 2022. Come say hello!

We are also introducing two new works written by local Twin Cities composers. Love Came Down at Christmas is the newest work by Mark Shepperd. Its gentle melody and rich harmonies scored for choir and orchestra will surely move you. God is Near is a new composition by Exultate member, David Borman. The beautiful text and music present a fitting reflection for the Advent Season.

You will be delighted by other sweet and joyful sounds including Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams and we will send you on your way singing with Exultate on the favorite carol, O Come, All Ye Faithful.

Paul Mealor
Mark Shepperd
David Borman

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music to be performed:

  • Paul Mealor – A Wondrous Noel (WORLD PREMIERE) – A Christmas Carol Medley
  • Mark Shepperd – Love Came Down at Christmas (WORLD PREMIERE)
  • David Borman – God is Near (WORLD PREMIERE)
  • Kyle Pederson – Sing We Now of Christmas (Minnesota composer)
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
  • Paul Mealor – In the Bleak Midwinter
  • Morton Lauridsen – O Magnum Mysterium
  • Michael Praetorius – Lo, How a Rose e’er Blooming
  • Stephen Gabrielsen – The Savior is Born
  • Herbert Howells – A Spotless Rose
  • John Rutter – Quittez, Pasteurs
  • John Jacob Niles/Rossin – I Wonder as I Wander
  • Hector Berlioz – The Shepherd’s Farewell
  • Traditional – O Come, All Ye Faithful – sung with the audience, choir and orchestra

2022 CHRISTMAS CONCERT VENUES:

Friday, December 9, 2022 – 7:00 p.m.
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd
4801 France Avenue South, Minneapolis

Saturday, December 10, 2022 – 7:00 p.m.
Normandale Lutheran Church
6100 Normandale Road, Edina

Sunday, December 11, 2022 – 4:00 p.m.
St. Mary’s Chapel – St. Paul Seminary
2260 Summit Avenue, St. Paul

Accessibility

All concert venues are handicapped accessible. Concert programs in large print are available upon request and concerts can be signed upon request. If you have special needs, we invite you to contact the Exultate office at 651-707-0727.