The Nidaros Cathedral Girls Choir is touring the USA April 1st to 11th , 2006, visiting Minneapolis, St. Olaf College in Northfield, Madison Wisconsin and New York. The tour, entitled “Songs Across the Sea”, aims at strengthening the ties between USA and Norway, and promoting the Choir, the Cathedral and Norwegian culture. The tour follows up the visit of St. Olaf College Choir to Trondheim in June 2005, when the two choirs together with the Norwegian soloist Randi Stene recorded the one-hour holiday special from the Nidaros Cathedral, A St. Olaf Christmas in Norway, aired nationwide in USA on PBS and in Norway on NRK during Christmas 2005. The concert was highly acclaimed: ”This was the most stunning choral performance I have heard. The choirs, singing from memory and from the heart, were world-class. Tuning, blend, balance and ensemble were faultless, the extra wow factor coming from two highly charismatic conductors [Adrian Carpenter, in Choir & Organ, the English, the classical music magazine]. Also the Choir performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria was broadcasted on American radio just before Christmas. The choir is conducted by Anita Brevik.