History of Honors Choirs Southeast Minnesota's Premier Youth Choirs
The Honors Choirs of Southeast Minnesota, founded in 1992 as one high school choir, is today a nonprofit organization of four youth choirs for grades 3-12. Membership is by audition and is open to all students in grades 3-12 who live in southeast Minnesota.
The choirs rehearse weekly throughout the academic year in Rochester preparing challenging repertoire, learning music history and theory, and practicing ear training techniques. This past year, 240 singers from 27 southeast Minnesota communities and 52 different area schools sang in the choirs.
In October 2001, the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council selected the Honors Choirs as the ARTS ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR for its contribution to the arts in this region! We are honored to have received this recognition.
