About the Concert
The 2025 Festival concludes with one of the most celebrated works in the Baroque repertoire. Led by Dr. Janet Brenneman and featuring the CMU Festival Chorus and soloists from the community, this performance of the St. John Passion will be unique offering steeped in a decades-long tradition of performance in the Mennonite community.
About the Canadian Mennonite University Festival Chorus
The CMU Festival Chorus—a choir of students, alumni, and friends of CMU—has a decades-long legacy of excellence in choral music. This auditioned choir frequently performs with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and has worked with many distinguished conductors over the years including Helmut Rilling, Robert Shaw, Ivars Taurins, Jane Glover, Tania Miller, Bramwell Tovey, Andrey Boreyko, and Alexander Mickelthwate.