Music For a Grand Space I: University Treble Choir & Campus Singers

University Treble Chorus

William Byrd |1540-1623 | arr. Brandon Berger
Non Nobis Domine

Francis Poulenc | 1899-1963
Ave Verum Corpus

Franz Schubert | 1797-1829
Psalm 23

Maurice Duruflé | 1902-1986
Tota pulchra es, from Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégorien

Horatio Parker | 1863-1919
The Lord is My Shepherd
Molly Rose Setter, soloist

Felix Mendelssohn | 1809-1847
Laudate Pueri

Cesar Franck | 1822-1890
Laudate Pueri
Sophie Charwa, Rowan Fahra, & Maddie Lacombe, soloists

Philip Bliss | 1838-1876 | arr. Brandon Berger
It Is Well With My Soul

Rosephanye Powell | b.1962
Still I Rise

STMA Chamber Choir

Alice Parker, arranger | 1925-2023
Hark! I Hear the Harps Eternal

Kevin Siegfried | b.1969
Shaker Songs
  I. Peace
  IV. Lay Me Low

Pierre Passereau | 1490-1553
Il Est Bel et Bon

Will Todd | b.1970
My Lord Has Come

Abel Pacheco | arr. William Belen
Congori Shango

Stephen Paulus | 1949-2014
The Road Home

Campus Singers

Melanie DeMore | b.1954
Blessed Be

Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 - 1750 | arr. Henry Leck
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Gabriel Fauré | 1845-1924
Cantique de Jean Racine

Stand in that River - Moira Smiley | b.1976

William Billings | 1746-1800
Creation

Frank Ticheli | b.1958
Earth Song

Combined Ensembles

Jean Sibelius | 1865-1957
This Is My Song

Brandon Berger (he/him) is a Graduate Instructor and Teaching Assistant at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities where he is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as part of their graduate choral conducting cohort. At the University of Minnesota, he directs the University Treble Chorus and assists with the Chambers Singers and University Singers. Berger holds a Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting, which he earned from the U of M in 2025, as well as Bachelor of Music Degree in Vocal Music Education, which he earned from St. Olaf College in 2015. Prior to beginning his graduate studies, Berger taught high school choir for 8 years in the Twin Cities area. He also serves as the conductor of the Sanctuary Choir at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church's West Campus in Victoria, MN, a position he's held since 2021. 

Choirs under Berger’s direction have performed in regional performance tours throughout the midwest, as well as at State and Regional ACDA Conventions, the MMEA Midwinter Clinic, the Luther College Dorian Festival, the Wartburg Meistersinger Festival, the St. Olaf Choral Day Festival, the Concordia College Choir Festival, and as part of the Cantus High School Residency Program. He is an active member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Minnesota Music Educators Association, and the National Association for Music Education. In the fall of 2023 Berger was selected as the recipient of the prestigious Emerging Choral Director award by the Minnesota chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. Berger is a proud resident of Robbinsdale, where he lives with his wife, two daughters, and two dogs.

Abby Carter (she/her) is a Minnesota based choral conductor and soprano. Originally from Colorado, she is currently working on her masters of music in choral conducting at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she works as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. She holds a bachelor of music in church music with a concentration in choral conducting from St. Olaf College, where she graduated in May of 2025. Alongside graduate school, Abby is currently the director of music at All Saints Lutheran Church in Eagan, Minnesota.

Logan Combs (he/him) is a Twin Cities-based tenor and choral conductor pursuing a Master of Music in choral conducting from the University of Minnesota. Originally from Wichita, Kansas, Logan moved to Minnesota to attend St. Olaf College, where he studied church music with a specialty in choral conducting. He spent a year as a VOCES8 US Scholar, where he completed a week in-residence with APOLLO5. Professionally, he serves as the Tenor Section Leader at St. Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church, and as the Music and Worship Consultant for the Presbytery of the Twin Cities. Formerly, he served as Director of Music at New Life Presbyterian Church of Roseville, Music Director for the North Suburban Chorus, and Marketing Manager for the National Lutheran Choir. An active singer in the Twin-Cities choral community, Logan has sung with the National Lutheran Choir, the Summer Singers SOL Ensemble, Caritas Vocal Ensemble, and various project choirs. Logan lives in St. Paul with his husband, Justin, and their two dogs, Boss and Eva.

Paolo Debuque (he/him) is a Filipino- and Chinese-American conductor based in Minneapolis, MN, known for innovative, community-centered programming. He is Founding Artistic Director of A Thousand Tongues, uplifting Asian-American experiences through music and story, and Artistic Director of Caritas Vocal Ensemble, serving the community through song. A 2024 ACDA International Conductor Exchange fellow, he has served on the choral faculty of St. Olaf College and led programs with Luther College choirs, Minnesota Chorale, and Resonance Ensemble, and served as Chorus Master for Hymns of Bantu, featuring Abel Selaocoe and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Paolo earned degrees from Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan and is pursuing a DMA in Conducting at the University of Minnesota.

Joe Osowski is the Director of Vocal Music Education at St. Michael – Albertville High School. He holds a Masters of Music Degree in Music Education from North Dakota State University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Vocal Music Education from the same institution.

At STMA High School, Osowski directs three curricular ensembles and one co-curricular ensemble. Mr. Osowski is also the conductor of Bring the Sing, a community singing initiative sponsored by Classical Minnesota Public Radio, Choral Director of  the Minnesota Ambassadors of Music and Director of the Central Choir at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Previously, Osowski served as Choral Director in the Worthington and Anoka – Hennepin School Districts. He also has served as Choral Director at Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka, Minnesota, First United Methodist Church in Worthington, Minnesota, Artistic Director of the East Central Minnesota Chorale and the Worthington Chamber Singers. 

Osowski is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. He has served in these roles throughout the Midwest and Central America. Osowski is an active member of the Minnesota Music Educators Association and the American Choral Directors Association, most recently serving as the Northeast District Chair for ACDA-MN. Choirs under his direction have performed at numerous invitational festivals and state and regional conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and Minnesota Music Educators Association. 

Joe Osowski was nominated as a Minnesota Teacher of the Year Semifinalist in 2016  and 2024 by Education Minnesota and was selected as a conducting delegate representing the United States for the 2017 International Conductors Exchange Program sponsored by the American Choral Directors Association. Joseph lives in Albertville with his Wife, Erin, a fellow Choral Music Educator and their two cats, Gus and Joey.

Thank you to our partners!

Dr. Matthew Mehaffey
Dr. Patrick Warfield
Paul Schimming & the staff of the ensemble library
Lisa Beecroft
Clancy Theade
Chris Ganza
Joe Osowski, St. Michael-Albertville High School Chamber Choir
St. Michael-Albertville School District
The Staff of the Cathedral of St. Paul

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