Te Deum was founded by Matthew Christopher Shepard in the fall of 2008 as a way to fulfill an expressed need by both singers and audiences in the Kansas City area to present sacred choral music concerts of the highest quality. The Te Deum Chamber Choir performed its first concert in spring 2009. Since then, the chamber choir has built an expressive and varied repertoire that spans centuries of time and wide ranges of composition style.

A prelude will be given by the 2018 National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (NYACOP) winner (to be determined in the finals on Monday, July 2). Te Deum will premiere a new choral work by composer Tarik O'Regan.