Madeleine School Choir Sings Mass

The Choir School of the Cathedral of the Madeleine of Salt Lake City, Utah will bring its full 66-person choir to sing the 11:00 AM Mass at Nativity of Our Lord this Sunday, April 21. 

Founded in 1996 by a group of visionary parents, it is the nation’s first choir school at a Catholic cathedral, one of the few to accept both boys and girls, and perhaps the first founded after Vatican II. 

Its current director, Melanie Malinka, sets the standard very high indeed. (See its 2020 video of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols on YouTube for example!)

We will be taking up a second collection to help support the choir’s visit.  

This special event coincides with the effort to establish an advanced boys’ and girls’ choir at Nativity, which is an extraordinary opportunity for young people. Our Director, Brian Carson, has vast experience in this area of youth choirs. 

In addition to providing the best in choral music each week at Mass, his choirs have been accepted by audition recording to sing at St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, and the Gesù in Rome; Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and York Minster in England; as well as the White House.  

As one choir parent said, “Wow, this is so exciting! Thank you for this opportunity!  We are so grateful for your expertise and for already providing such a rich musical education and experience over the past year.”  

For more information about students entering grades 3-8 joining the nucleus that has already committed to this choir, please contact Brian at bcarson@nativitystpaul.org.