Saint Peter High School’s newest choir, which is an auditioned group of 50 students from grades 10-12, has been given the rare opportunity to perform at the Minnesota Music Educators Association’s Mid-Winter Convention on February 12, 2026, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The new group, named the SPHS Fleur de Lis Singers, will perform about a 45-minute set during the convention.
“This is a huge deal for our students to be asked to perform at this MMEA event,” SPHS Choir Director Bri Bergstrom said. “We’re working on a fully student-designed program which includes choosing the music they perform, and one of our students, Bekah Roemhildt, is even writing one of the songs that our choir will sing.
“Normally, MMEA features more traditional-type choirs during this convention, but we have a non-traditional approach to choir here (at SPHS) and we were asked to perform to show them what we are about. The music we’ll be performing with this new group will be totally different than what is typically performed at the convention, and it’s really an honor for our students to be given this opportunity!”
In other SPHS choir news:
* The SPHS Fleur de Lis Singers will participate in the second annual Big South Conference Choir Festival, set for Monday, Nov. 3, at New Ulm High School. The students will take part in large group rehearsals along with working closely with a choir clinician. Later that evening the new audition SPHS Saints Select Choir will perform during the evening concert.
* Bergstrom was recently selected to be the director of the Minnesota 7th & 8th Grade Girls Honor Choir on Saturday, April 11, 2026, at St. Michael-Albertville High School. “This is a tremendous honor to work with these talented young sopranos and alto singers and truly a highlight of my career, I am so honored and excited!” Bergstrom said.
(SHOWN ABOVE) Members of the new SPHS Fleur de Lis Singers includes: Emily Guerra, Bekah Roemhildt, Nevaeh Swanson, Grace Penner, Lucia Penner, Dylan Hutchins, Kylie Southworth, Audrey Born; second row, Farah Muse, Olivia Mish, Josie Scrabeck, Melina Chadwick, Taryn Bice, Leah Boomgaarden, Linnea Miller, Tiara Torres; third row, Elliot Hagen, Cecily Jacobs, Hamdi Garad, Amelia Davis, Paige Marquardt, Ella Twaddle, Sophia Mullaly, Lydia Yost; fourth row, Annika Magelee, Courtney Domras, Rosalie Jensen, Audrey Menning, Isla Gassman, Molli Weber, Solee Straub, Ellie Graham, Charlotte Hagen; back row, Micah Stoll, Robert Hughes, Parker Brown, Everett Pettis, Reid Wills, Cooper Meyer, Zeb Davis, Calvin Kuhlman, and Jack Thompson. Not pictured are Evan Embacher, Lyric Ruble, Annika Stone, Jake Banks, Gabe Zayas, Lila Klause, Sasha Olivares, and Alex Mueller.