The Concordia Choir

The Concordia Choir is a 76-member mixed choir of students at Concordia College, in Moorhead, Minnesota, United States. It performs on its campus, nationally, and internationally. The choir has had three conductors since its founding in 1919, through which it grew under Paul J. Christiansen, who conducted it from 1937-1986. Since 1986, the choir has been conducted by René Clausen. It has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. The Concordia Choir performs in the annual Concordia College Christmas concert, which is occasionally broadcast on public radio and annually on PBS or other public stations throughout the United States winning a Regional Emmy. The choir has released recordings, which are sold by Concordia College. Different genres are represented in the choir's discography. Critic David Vernier of Classics Today gave a perfect rating to the choir's album of 20th century masterpieces, In the New Moon, saying, "Choral music fans are in for a real treat--and those who choose to pass on this exemplary program and its rarely heard masterpieces will just have to be satisfied with their aesthetically diminished lives..."