Lift your voice in worship and fellowship with Wayzata Community Church's Chancel Choir. This welcoming adult ensemble leads the 10:30am Traditional Worship Service throughout the program year and presents inspiring music for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, and other special services. Whether you're an experienced singer or returning to choir after time away, you'll find a supportive community dedicated to glorifying God through music.

Celebration Choir is a welcoming ensemble for singers of all experience levels who enjoy learning uplifting choral music in a supportive, encouraging environment. This group helps lead the 9am Contemporary Worship Service 1x per month. It offers a wonderful opportunity to build friendships, grow in faith, and share the joy of music while leading worship throughout the year.

The WCC Chamber Choir is a select ensemble dedicated to sharing meaningful choral music through special projects and collaborations. Bringing together accomplished singers from Wayzata Community Church and across the Twin Cities, the choir serves as an extension of WCC’s vibrant music ministry, building connections through artistic excellence and shared values. Through music that inspires reflection, wonder, and community, the Chamber Choir seeks to enrich both church and community life. Directed by Brian Schmidt.

Little voices. Big joy. Explore faith through lively music and movement. This is a joyful, welcoming place for our youngest singers to move, make music, and experience God's love together.

Introduces rhythm, pitch-matching, and foundational music skills and concepts while singing joy-filled songs for worship.

A fun, faith-centered vocal ensemble where students learn harmony, rhythm, and vocal technique while leading music at WCC. Music includes contemporary Christian, traditional, and pop styles.

Music is at the heart of Parables Ministry! Join us for 30 joyful minutes of singing, dancing, and experiencing the Holy Spirit together. Led by Kiki and Mike Webert, along with Cayla Worner, the choir welcomes singers of all ages.
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Gather in community for exceptional live music in the beautiful Sanctuary at Wayzata Community Church. From internationally acclaimed artists and renowned regional ensembles to treasured holiday traditions, jazz, organ recitals, and choral masterworks, the Music Series offers inspiring performances for audiences of every age.

Havana comes to Wayzata. The acclaimed Havana Quartet brings Caribbean warmth and Latin American rhythm to the stage, with host Charles Lazarus guiding a program of contemporary Cuban composers Aldo López-Gavilán and Paquito D'Rivera, followed by a live interview and audience Q&A.As artists-in-residence with CAYO, a Twin Cities nonprofit connecting the US and Cuba through music, the quartet spends its time off-stage teaching in Minnesota schools and community centers, spreading the same spirit that fuels this concert. Learn more at cayomusic.org.

‍*Presented in collaboration with CircleRock Concerts for Community.

Sixteen years ago, a small group of musicians went looking for a community orchestra to call home. They didn't find one, so they started one. Since that first gathering on August 11, 2009, the Wayzata Symphony Orchestra has grown into a full ensemble of passionate volunteer musicians from across the Twin Cities, all playing for one reason: to put on concerts that are fresh, illuminating, and free for the whole community.The formula worked. Full houses became the norm at Wayzata Community Church, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Mahtomedi, Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater, and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, earning the WSO a nickname that stuck: "the little orchestra that could."

They're back. After a full house last December, Minnetonka Choral Society returns to Wayzata Community Church for their annual Christmas concert, continuing a choral tradition that stretches back to 1957. Led by longtime Music Director Jere Lantz, the 70-member ensemble performs a program spanning old masterworks, contemporary composers, and holiday carols, with Lantz offering insight into each piece along the way.

It's a fitting encore for one of the Twin Cities' longest-standing choral groups, and a chance to make this holiday tradition your own.

This year, the National Lutheran Choir's Christmas concert isn't at its usual home. With the Basilica of St. Mary under construction, the choir is performing this program at only three churches this season, and Wayzata Community Church is the only one hosting it on a Sunday afternoon.

The concert turns toward the figures of Mary and the Christ child: not only mother and son, but prophet and fulfillment, bearer of justice and its incarnation, vessel of disruption and the disruption itself. Mary's song, the Magnificat, becomes a lens for reconciliation, the lifting of the lowly, the reordering of power, and points toward the one in whom that hope takes fragile human form.

What can a single work of music do more than a century after it's written? Ask anyone who's heard Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, often regarded as one of the greatest achievements in choral music. Drawing on centuries-old sacred chants, it builds lush harmonies and soaring melodies into moments of breathtaking stillness, performed here by an ensemble of exceptional professional vocalists.

Whether you know it well or you're discovering it for the first time, this is a rare opportunity to experience a work that still inspires wonder generations after its creation.

The Wayzata Symphony Orchestra returns for a second performance of the season, sharing another afternoon of exceptional orchestral music.

Experience one of America's most exciting concert organists as Greg Zelek brings his artistry to the WCC Music Series. Principal Organist of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Curator of the Overture Center Concert Organ, and Northrop Organist at the University of Minnesota, Zelek is known for reimagining what an organ concert can be: dazzling virtuosity, creative programming, and an infectious sense of joy.

Prepare to hear the "king of instruments" in ways you never expected.

Songs of Praise and Stars brings together timeless masterpieces and contemporary voices in a luminous program celebrating wonder, faith, and the beauty of the natural world. Tapestry Choral Collective joins the acclaimed Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for music spanning more than three centuries, from the radiant sacred works of Johann Sebastian Bach and the Swedish Baroque tradition to a new work by one of Sweden's leading composers.

The program features nationally recognized vocal soloists drawn from within the ensemble itself, a reminder that individual artistry and collective excellence aren't opposites. They're woven together, note by note.

The Lazarus Brass is going back to their roots at Wayzata Community Church where they got their start with Charles Lazarus and Merry and Bright. In celebration of the 100 year Anniversary of Duke Ellington’s legendary partnership with the Cotton Club in New York, they will be joined by the WCC Chamber Choir, directed by Brian Schmidt. The program will feature the premiere of Dean Sorenson’s arrangement of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert, selections from Ellington’s Peer Gynt Suite, Caravan and other big band hits.

Jazz brass meets sacred choral music, all in one program.

*Presented in collaboration with CircleRock Concerts for Community.

Twin Cities’ premier event band, unplugged and up close! PowerTap has energized audiences for decades with everything from Bruno Mars and Chappell Roan to Dolly Parton and Journey. Now, experience their signature harmonies, rich acoustic arrangements, and musical chemistry in an intimate setting. Same incredible musicians. A more personal PowerTap.

Warmup act: Mudfoot Barker — “Turning Faith miles that have been traveled into song.”

The Minneapolis songwriter behind songs for Dixie Chicks, Etta James, Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd! Kevin Bowe has written for platinum and Grammy-winning records, and now he’s playing those songs himself, with a few stories along the way.

It’s not often you get to hear brothers Paul and Timothy Frantzich on the same stage. This winter they’re making it a family night, joined by Paul’s daughters Halia and Bailey and pedal steel player Joe Savage for an evening of sacred originals, favorite covers and close sibling harmony.

Michael Shynes and the Long Way Home make guitar-driven country, Americana and rock the old-fashioned way, recording on analog gear in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Shynes is joined by musicians who’ve played with Paul McCartney and Chuck Berry and toured with Owl City. It’s music made by real people, in the room, for the room.

Minnesota native and two-time ASCAP award winner! Jason Gray’s honest, hopeful songs, including “Good to Be Alive” and “Nothing Is Wasted,” find grace in weakness and light in the dark.

Minnesota Music Hall of Famers with more than 40 years of family fun! The Teddy Bear Band gets kids and grown-ups alike singing, clapping and dancing. Bring your own teddy bear!