Crossing borders through choral music / Cruzando fronteras a través de la música coral
Border CrosSing is an award-winning choral music nonprofit based in Minnesota.
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Listen
Led by Artistic Director Ahmed Anzaldúa, Puentes is an award-winning, auditioned vocal ensemble that fills the space with stirring sounds and compelling narratives, connecting artists and audiences.
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Sing
Love to sing? Join our community sings, Heritage Choir or Puentes ensemble. ¡Ven a cantar con nosotros!
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Teach
Explore our educational offerings through our School Residencies —designed to inspire and make Latin American music accessible for everyone.
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Learn
Border CrosSing specializes in rarely performed music from Latin America and beyond. Explore our previous performances, sheet music series and more.
Come hear us sing!
Our Next puentes Concert
Canto a la vida
Join Border CrosSing for the opening concert of our 2025-2026 Season: An a cappella program of choral music gems by Venezuelan composers Modesta Bor and Antonio Estévez. Don’t miss these gorgeous settings of Latin American poetry for unaccompanied choir rarely performed in the United States.
Saturday, 20 September @ 7pm | Academia Cesar Chavez School (Saint Paul | MAP),
Sunday, 21 September @ 4pm | Church of the Ascension (Minneapolis | MAP), &
Monday, 22 September @ 7PM | Schofield Auditorium, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
2025-2026 Puentes Season
Canto a la vida
20–22 September 2025
Festival de las calaveras with Coro Acardenchado and Juan Pablo Villa
1 November 2025
Navidad Nuestra
20 & 21 December 2025
Un Milagro de Fe
19 April 2026 at the Ordway Concert Hall
Border CrosSing Dance Party
15 & 17 May 2026
Artist Recital Series
2025-2026 Dates
Coming soon!
Location
Ascension Catholic Church
1723 Bryant Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Time
TBA
Free!
Come sing with us!
Community Events
Fall 2025 Heritage Choir Session
Weekly rehearsals from 16 November to 7 December 2025
Serenata Navideña
13 December 2025
Spring 2026 Heritage Choir Session
Weekly rehearsals from 26 March to 30 April 2026
Día de las Madres Community Sing
2 May 2026
Our mission-driven work includes…
our 2025 self-produced performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Oceana paired with works by J. S. Bach at the Ordway Concert Hall, named a Critic’s Pick by the Star Tribune;
our historic 2019 performance of Golijov’s La Pasión según San Marcos with the Minnesota Orchestra, named as one of the year’s best concerts by the Star Tribune;
our cherished El Mesías programs that combine Handel's Messiah in a bilingual setting with Navidad Nuestra by Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez, touted as a “cross-cultural, bilingual mash-up” that “creates a pathway toward all-new traditions” by the Pioneer Press;
our sheet music publications through Graphite Publications features works and arrangements by living composers including Nico Gutierrez, Natalia Romero Arbeláez, and Linda Kachelmeier and new performing editions of historical Latin American vocal music;
and the release of two albums, Un milagro de fe (A Miracle of Faith) and Aquí te amo (Here I Love You), that celebrate BIPOC composers across the Americas.
We are honored to be recipients of the 2025 Alice Parker Fund Award from Chorus America and the 2020 Chorus America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming.
