Virginia Schubert

Virginia A. Schubert sang in the soprano section of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale since its inception and is currently President Emerita of the Board of the Chorale. She assisted Monsignor Schuler when he was editor of Sacred Music magazine and is a member and former officer of the Church Music Association of America. She is the author of To Sing with the Angels: A History of the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale. (2015)

After graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from the College of Saint Catherine (now Saint Catherine University) in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she studied under the auspices of a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Poitiers in France. She earned M.A. and PhD degrees in French Literature from the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Schubert is a professor emerita of Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, where she taught French, chaired the French Department and also served as an Associate Provost during a thirty-seven-year career. She was decorated by the French government as an Officer in the Order of Academic Palms. She is a Dame Commander in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Dr. Schubert is a member of Saint Agnes Parish and the Parish of the Nativity of Our Lord, both in Saint Paul, Minnesota.