Kaleidoscope Quartet - Minnesota a cappella quartet

Upcoming Concerts

Vista Lutheran Church Benefit Concert

November 10, 2024

Kaleidoscope Quartet returns to Vista Lutheran in Saint Louis Park to give a benefit concert for Rise Early Learning Center. This performance has no tickets, but donations for Rise Early will be accepted at the door.

4:00pm on Nov 10, 2024
Vista Lutheran Church
4003 Wooddale Ave S
Saint Louis Park, MN 55416

Courtroom Concert: Songs of the Season

December 12, 2024

We’re partnering with the Schubert Club to perform winter-themed music, including some brand new songs, at the Landmark Center in downtown Saint Paul! There will be two performances, one at 12:00pm and one at 6:00pm. These performances are both free and open to the public.

12:00pm & 6:00pm on Dec 12, 2024
Landmark Center, Cortile
75 W 5th St
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102

About Us

Kaleidoscope Quartet presents four-part vocal music with joy, range, and soul. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, the quartet’s four members Taylor Quinn (baritone), Dana Skoglund (bass 2), Jack Vishneski (tenor 1), and Ian Cook (tenor 2) bring far-reaching specialties, skills, and vocal timbres to create a kaleidoscope of sound. All four members have their own musical and extramusical careers, but are brought together by a passion for vocal chamber music.

Our Story

It started with Cheryl. Confined at home with complications from a heart transplant, Cheryl loved the sounds of a male quartet but couldn’t attend concerts. Her husband, Dana Skoglund, decided to bring the sounds to her. He gathered Jack Vishneski, Taylor Quinn, and other singers to do regular in-home performances of some of Cheryl’s favorites, adding progressively harder pieces over time.

Kaleidoscope Quartet in performance at Cheryl memorial service

Cheryl passed away in November 2020. One of her parting wishes was to have a grand concert at her memorial service. Grief and the Covid-19 pandemic meant the service took a year to develop, during which Ian Cook joined the Kaleidsocope Quartet, and on November 6th, 2021, the group performed some of Cheryl’s favorites for a few hundred people at the service. The beauty and heart of that moment made it clear—these guys needed to keep singing together and discover all the potential colors of their joined voices.

Watch and Listen

Kaleidoscope Quartet’s premiere album Joy. Range. Soul. is available now!

Drawn from the group’s 2023 program, this music reflects a period of deepening friendship and creative discovery. This album’s name is the core of the KQ sound.

Get the album!