Champagne Confetti is a 12-piece progressive chamber ensemble based in Minneapolis, MN. The project is a triangulation of original music created by Aby Wolf in collaboration with songwriter/composers Grant Cutler and Eric Mayson, performed by a stellar crew of musicians with a wide range of musical influences and experience. Champagne Confetti's unique instrumentation features strings, percussion, and vocal harmonies; it is a love letter written in spacious neo-minimalism, chamber music, jazz, electro pop, and theater-framed R&B and soul, resulting in a fresh, inimitable sound that leaps from rowdy to reverent with ease and earnest.

The project began with collaborators Aby Wolf and Grant Cutler: following two acclaimed electro pop releases (2013 LP Wolf Lords and 2016 EP Call the Rocks), the duo sought to expand their shared sonic palette by arranging a batch of new, experimental electronic demos for live players. After gathering several of the Twin Cities’ best artists for a fruitful “proof-of-concept” studio session in 2017, Wolf received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board to further develop the project with collaborator Eric Mayson, and Aby and Eric fleshed out the group’s songbook with several new works-in-progress from their own burgeoning trove of duo explorations.

The group honed its sound and collaborative creative process over several rounds of community engagement residencies and tours across the state of Minnesota (including visits to Ely, Duluth, Brainerd, Grand Rapids, Detroit Lakes, Red Wing, Fairmont, and New York Mills), resulting in a circle of fast friends whose unspoken aim in every performance is to work together with love and generosity for the music and for each other. 

Champagne Confetti celebrated its Minneapolis debut with a performance at The Parkway Theater in April, 2019 with acclaimed chamber group NOW Ensemble. The group recorded their self-titled debut album at Pachyderm Recording Studio in Cannon Falls, MN in August, 2021. The record was released on October 6, 2023 followed by an album release show at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on October 21, 2023.

“Since the project’s inception, Champagne Confetti has provided an opportunity to expand creatively, to build community, and to learn from each other. The musicians in this group come from incredibly varied corners of the Twin Cities music scene, and all of those influences inform our sound and our process. It’s not just ‘more is more’ in this circle - it’s ‘all is more, and all is necessary.’”

- Aby Wolf, co-founder/ensemble leader

"‘Supergroup’ isn't a word to throw around lightly, but when your member list starts with Aby Wolf and Eric Mayson... well, the shoe fits.”

- Minnesota Public Radio, The Current

"The thing that people respond to the most is your passion for what you do. Students respond to the genuineness of what you’re doing, and everyone in this group has shown that genuine passion.”

- Nicole Ottjes, Music Instructor at Harbor City International School, Duluth, MN