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.
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Our Next puentes Concert
Border CrosSing at Chorus America
Border CrosSing is a featured performer at the 2026 Chorus America Conference in Minneapolis! Our performance includes excerpts from Calixto Álvarez’s Réquiem Osún and a cappella works by Modesta Bor. This concert will feature Border CrosSing’s Puentes ensemble, National Lutheran Choir, and The Singers.
Thursday, 4 June, 7:30pm at Central Lutheran Church (Minneapolis)
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
Voces de las Américas Festival
8 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
Come sing with us!
Community Events
2026-2027 Season Announcements Coming Soon!
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 underrecognized 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.
This is our story.
