How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Sing with the Marquette Choral Society!
Starting in January, more than 100 members of the Marquette Choral Society will be preparing for their April 20, 2026, performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Dr. Erin Colwitz will conduct a mass choir, made up of singers from the UP and all across the country, along with a professional orchestra and soloists. The singers will perform Mozart’s famed KrÖnungsmesse (also known as the Coronation Mass), and then will reprise that work, plus Mozart’s Vesperae solonnes de confessore, back in Marquette at Kaufman Auditorium on April 25 and 26, 2026.
For those interested in joining the Choral Society, with or without the Carnegie Hall trip, registration and rehearsals begin January 12, 2026, in the Thomas Fine Arts building on the NMU campus. Registration will start at 6 p.m. on January 12 and 26 (no rehearsal January 19), with rehearsals running from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday evenings from January through April. Individual fees for the semester are $70 ($40 for music and $30 for dues). Some scholarship funds are available.
Most of the travel and concert arrangements for the New York trip have already been made, but it is still possible to sing with the group in New York. Contact Dr. Colwitz for more information at ecolwitz@nmu.edu . Singers who are unable to join the trip to New York are welcome to rehearse and perform in the Marquette concerts.
Marquette Choral Society is a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, adult choir of more than 100 singers from a four-county region in the Upper Peninsula. MCS strives to engage, enrich, and inspire this region through the art of choral music. The ensemble was founded in 1971 by Dr. William Dehning and is currently led by musical director Dr. Erin Colwitz.