Cantus

One of America's finest professional male vocal ensembles, Cantus brings their voices to an adventurous range of programming - classical, chant, Renaissance music, contemporary works, folk, spirituals, world music, and pop, all reminding us how magnificent high quality, back-to-fundamentals vocal music is - and has been for centuries. Join us.

"Exalting finesse - expressive power - spontaneous grace." — Washington Post

Stereophile Magazine said that "the sheer beauty of the unaccompanied male voices [and the] art of [these] professional singers proved overwhelming." And The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported: "The Minnesotans come across as down-to-earth types who present their music with the eagerness of hometown guys singing for the pleasure of friends and neighbors."

The Los Angeles Times said "Cantus is a splendid, relatively new male a cappella choral group that swells the ranks of our current golden age of ensemble singing in a distinctive way." And the Times added: "Other groups aim for a honeyed but disembodied sound. Cantus matches that blend, but it also revels in a heft of sound hardly imagined possible from 10 men singing without accompaniment."

The Houston Chronicle said that a "weekend visit by Minnesota-based Cantus was a forceful reminder that professional male vocal ensembles are thriving," and that Cantus produces "a robust sound inviting for its warmth, vigor and flexibility with an obvious love for the music and their work.