West Metro Community Choir

The Minnetonka Choral Society (MCS) began in 1957 as a loose association of choirs to sing Handel's Messiah. In 1969, we reorganized under the direction of Jim Dau, who retired in 1989 after 20 years of leading our community choir. The baton was passed to Peter Hendrickson, and since 1993 has been held by Music Director Jere Lantz. Since our inception, we have become known for our high level of artistry and breadth of repertoire.

We are a nonprofit organization, supported exclusively from the funds raised by our members and by choir concert ticket sales. We currently have about 80 members. We rehearse for about six months and perform two choir concerts each year. In December we sing a Holiday concert and in April we offer our Spring concert for the Twin Cities community. Our concerts are frequently performed with a paid professional orchestra. Our soloists are either paid professionals or MCS members.

If you would like to support our non-profit organization or purchase concert tickets, please click on the Donate button below or contact us. We look forward to sharing beautiful music with you!

Would you like to join us? Auditions are in the fall and spring.
Would you like to support us? Donations are welcome at any time.
Would you like to hear us sing? Tickets are on sale now!

Choral Variety ~ Joyous Musicality

Performing with a wide variety of instrumental complements, though primarily with orchestra, our community choir has presented programs that span four centuries of musical creativity and the four corners of he globe. Here is a sampling of our choir concert offerings:

Spring 2012 – Blue Grass Mass
Holiday 2011 – A Guitar Christmas
Spring 2011 – Vibrant Voices Brilliant Brass: Composers across five centuries performed with brass and percussion
Holiday 2010 – Vaughan Williams Hodie and Christmas carols from around the globe
Spring 2010 – Masterworks of the Romantic Era: Antonin Dvorak's Te Deum, Brahms's Nenia, Faure's Requiem
Holiday 2009 – A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten with carols from across the centuries and around the world.
Spring 2009 – That Was Then, This is Now by Kevin Dobbe along with choral masterpieces spanning five centuries.
Holiday 2008 – Handel's Messiah

Minnetonka Choral Society

If you would like to join us, support our non-profit organization or buy concert tickets, please call 952-476-1922 or contact the MCS. We look forward to sharing beautiful music with you!

Our mailing address is: Minnetonka Choral Society, P. O. Box 564, Wayzata, MN 55391.