About the Concert Choir

The Honors Concert Choir serves men in grades 10-12 and women in grades 11 and 12. Membership is by audition and is open to all singers residing in southeast Minnesota. Mr. Michael Culloton is the conductor of the choir, and the pianist is Mrs. Laurie Priniski.

Throughout the school year, the Concert Choir rehearses on Sunday evenings from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. and performs in several season concerts and on tour to area schools. In addition, the choir takes a post-season tour every third year (1998 to the Czech Republic and Austria, 2001 to the Netherlands and France, 2004 to Italy). In 2007, the choir traveled to Newfoundland to participate in Festival 500, a prestigious international choral festival. In 2010. the choir will travel to Italy. There is an additional cost for post-season trips, and fundraising opportunities and scholarships are available.

The Concert Choir has enjoyed many successes in its 18-year history:

• In 1998, 1st place at the Vienna Youth and Music Festival
• In 2001, two 2nd place awards at the International Choir Festival in Arnhem, the Netherlands
• Invitations to perform for the 1999 MN gubernatorial inauguration festivities, conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and Chorus America, and annual high school choir days at Concordia College (Moorhead, MN) and St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
• Chosen to be included in five different annual Best of High School A Cappella compact discs
• A strong recording program - the choir's sixth compact disc, Follow the Sun, was released in the fall of 2004.