Commissioning Corner
Commissioning Corner – Spring 2026
Joy in Defiance: A Synopsis of the ComposeHER, ConductHER Symposium and Festival at St. Olaf...
Star of the North Commissioning Corner
Celebrating MN Choral Composer Creativity: Resources and Celebration By Laura Krider For this past fall’s...
Star of the North Commissioning Corner
Music for My Own Needs…and Maybe Yours, Too By AndRew Parr In a 2018 discussion...
SOTN Commission Corner
A Sacred Music Renaissance: New Music from Emerging Composers By Josh Wang Director of Music...
SOTN Commission Corner
Gifts of the Magi: A Conversation with composer Ralph Johnson and poet Laurie Richardson Johnson...
SOTN Commission Corner
Minnesota Composers share news about their recent projects in their own words. All quotes below...
Minnesota High School Choir premiere with VOCES8
VOCES8 tenor Blake Morgan’s Polaris, for double choir SATB/SSSAATTBBB a capella was premiered in a high...
Just Believe with Me
In this ACDA-MN Conference preview, Lia Pearson, and Amanda K. Weber, Director of Voices of...
Bach with Born Frees
This past November I ventured to Cape Town, South Africa, for the second time to...
Thomas LaVoy
Thomas LaVoy and his wife, composer Sarah Rimkus (profiled in Winter 2022 SON), recently relocated...