Flute Cocktail Roster:

Carol Bros
Karalee Brunjes
Kay Ellison
Cindy Farrell
Sara Harris
Janet Johnson
Tania Johnson
Sharon Kapeluck
Johanna Krueger
Helga Kuster
Kerry MacInnes
Karen McGill
Diane Wood
Juliet Wivell
Amanda Ylvisaker

Flute Cocktail is a flute choir composed of 15 musicians from the Minneapolis metropolitan area who share a passionate love for the flute. Our strong desire to learn and grow musically translates into varied and dynamic performances that are dedicated to communicating our enthusiasm for music and for the flute. We come from all walks of life: we are musicians, lawyers, educators, homemakers, stay-at-home moms, students, health professionals, office workers, writers, lab technicians, church workers, and more.

The choir originated in 2004 as a trio of adult flute students with their teacher, Cindy Farrell, at the Minnesota Valley School of Music (MVSM) in Richfield, Minnesota; the group expanded under the direction of Cindy with her co-director, Lisa Yates. At the end of 2005, Lisa moved away from Minneapolis, and Helga Kuster joined Cindy as co-director. With the closing of MVSM in 2008, Flute Cocktail moved its base to Mount Calvary Lutheran School in Richfield, where we continue to rehearse every Saturday. Sara Harris joined the conducting team in 2009.

The “voices” that make up Flute Cocktail's delightful sound include C flutes, alto and bass flutes, piccolo, and whistles. We perform as a full choir or in smaller ensembles, enabling us to program for many types of gatherings and events. There are several competent pianists in our ranks who enable to us to perform flute choir music with piano.

Our repertoire includes works composed for flute choir as well as arrangements of classical and contemporary, folk, jazz, pop, sacred, holiday, Latin American music, musical theater, and Broadway. Flute Cocktail performs at shopping malls, schools, senior residences, churches, city parks, Upper Midwest Flute Association events, and parties, and luncheons. We specialize in audience participation concerts where all ages can move, sing, and play along with percussion instruments and manipulate props suggested by the music.