When the earth stills, and lights shine in the darkest skies, we take time to rejoice and reflect. Music is a moving, powerful force for reminding us what matters in life, what brings us joy, what connects us to each other. Our concert celebrates the hope, peace, warmth and reflection that music brings to our lives.

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Come celebrate with us as we sing for the residents of the Norse Home. A festive reception to follow!

This holiday season, the Seattle Choral Company, directed by Freddie Coleman, returns to Saint Mark’s Cathedral for their 11th annual Cathedral Christmas concert tradition, which this year is titled December Dreams. Once again this year, listeners will flock to Saint Mark’s Cathedral to take a break from holiday stress and activity and hear a reflective program of choral beauty. Concert at 8:00pm. Preview talk at 7:00pm. Carol sing-along with the Flentrop organ at 7:30pm.

Join us for our annual holiday, under the new direction of Allan J. Andrews! Singing songs about the season, the Seattle Metropolitan Singers will be at the Rainier Arts Center in Columbia City. Refreshments to follow.

The Family Holiday concert is a shorter version of the full Bainbridge Chorale holiday concert, suitable for children or anyone who may not wish to attend a two-hour concert.

These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.

Patterned after the Christmas Eve observance at King’s College in Cambridge, England, A Festival of Lessons & Carols is a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consists of nine holiday readings, each followed by a traditional carol performed by the choir, and another carol sung by the choir and audience.

Come & enjoy music of the holidays. Our Gift of Song.

Enrich your holidays with the resplendent sounds of the master composers of the 16th – 18th centuries. Featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s exciting and ever-popular Gloria (with chamber orchestra and soloists Natalie Ingrisano, soprano, and Melissa Plagemann, mezzo-soprano), the program also includes the stirring Magnificat of Giovanni Pergolesi, and other jubilant works by Heinrich Schütz, Hans Leo Hassler, and Jan Sweelinck. Come help us celebrate our 35th anniversary season!

Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.

The explosive joy that washed across Europe on Christmas is summed up in this one exclamation. “Hodie”--or “Today”--is the word that begins many of the sacred texts sung on that day: Today Christ is born! Today the Savior appeared! Today on earth the angels sing! After weeks of waiting through the penitential season, the faithful then celebrated with 12 days of dancing, processions, and feasts. The Medieval Women’s Choir unleashes its joy of the season from cathedral, court, and countryside.

All donations to benefit memory loss programs at the senior center

"Come to the Music" is a tribute to all aspects of music as each selection pays homage to all the ways we enjoy this beautiful art form. Genres include folk, jazz, spirituals, and pop music along with holiday tunes that will make your heart sing. Come join us for an evening of beautiful music!

A delightful concert of Holiday music for the whole family, with a generous dose of Barbershop harmony. Enjoy great music in the wonderful acoustics of the Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church. Other groups performing at the two shows will include Sweet Adelines Choruses, high school choral ensembles, and two Northwest Girlchoir choruses. And don't be surprised if a sing-along breaks out! An annual SeaChordsmen tradition that is an audience favorite. Tickets available from Brown Paper Tickets.

SMC is ringing in the season with a high-spirited celebration that brings together all your favorites: beloved carols, fresh takes on holiday classics, and show-stopping dazzlers that will have you on your feet! Featuring “Silver Bells,” “Do You Hear What I Hear,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and many more moments of pure Holiday joy. Be there with bells on!

HANDEL Messiah (unabridged performance)

This concert is sure to relax the soul in this busy Christmas season with selections from major works, and sets of memorable carols. Our hope is that you will recognize some of the titles and melodies, but perhaps set in ways you haven't heard before!

Join Concord Chamber Choir and Con Brio Women's Concert in an afternoon concert exploring the music of the holidays with selections accompanied by members of the Northwest Symphony Orchestra. Experience the voices of the Columbia Choirs singers ring in the beautiful Bellevue First Congregational Church.

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Your family's seasonal soundtrack with NWRS includes cherished masterworks, newly-minted favorites, sumptuous settings with harp and cello, and twinkling pieces with four-hand piano duet—plus carols for audience and choir. NWRS welcomes Kyle S. Haugen in his first concert as artistic director; with Marjorie Skreen, accompanist; Brianna Spargo, piano and harp; and Tom Walworth, cello. Works by Victoria, Poulenc, Britten, Moses Hogan, Ola Gjeilo, Abbie Betinis, Kyle Haugen, and more.

2018 marks the 100 th anniversary of the end of WWI, the “war to end all wars.” Our concert is inspired by the
Christmas truce in 1914 during which roughly 100,000 English, French, and German troops ceased hostilities to
offer holiday greetings, mingle, and even exchange gifts. We celebrate this spirit of peace with carols and
holiday music from England, France, and Germany.

Pre concert lectures will be at 2:00pm and 6:30pm.

Northwest Chorale, directed by Lynn Hall, will present its winter concert entitled A Very Choral Christmas - a musical feast of carols and sacred works which has a little something for everyone. Anchoring the program is the fabulous Poulenc Gloria. Admission is complimentary and a free will offering will be taken to benefit Northwest Harvest.

These delightful arrangements will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Come help us celebrate this festive season!

Spend a delightfully festive evening with the Northwest Firelight Chorale this holiday season! Our not-to-be missed program will include spectacular arrangements of seasonal favorites sung by the stars of the '50s and '60s. Who can forget Johnny Mathis’ “Winter Wonderland,” Andy Williams’ “Do You Hear What I Hear?” or Eartha Kitt’s “Santa Baby”? Enjoy these and more as we perform for you with the flair and flavor of that enticing era. It’s just our way of wishing you the merriest!

KCC presents a Winter concert of songs from Heart and Hearth, featuring Olalla Elementary Honor Choir.

Come enjoy a program of classic American Holiday songs and carols, and celebrate the warmth of coming Home for the Holidays!

The Offbeats Vocal Jazz Ensemble will be performing jazz tunes from Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker to Thelonious Monk under the direction of internationally acclaimed Seattle jazz vocalist Kelley Johnson and accompanied by the John Hansen Trio. In addition, a number of the talented members of the ensemble will be performing solos with the band. Come enjoy an evening of jazz, wine, and holiday joy!

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Ring in the Christmas season with music from Ukraine, including a choral concerto by Bortniansky and traditional Ukrainian carols. This festive program is led by Marika Kuzma, one of the world’s leading authorities on Ukrainian choral music.

These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.

Patterned after the Christmas Eve observance at King’s College in Cambridge, England, A Festival of Lessons & Carols is a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consists of nine holiday readings, each followed by a traditional carol performed by the choir, and another carol sung by the choir and audience.

SMC is ringing in the season with a high-spirited celebration that brings together all your favorites: beloved carols, fresh takes on holiday classics, and show-stopping dazzlers that will have you on your feet! Featuring “Silver Bells,” “Do You Hear What I Hear,” “Jingle Bell Rock” and many more moments of pure Holiday joy. Be there with bells on!

We invite you to our 30th year celebration concert “Gathering” on Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mount Baker Theatre. Building community and healing divisions is our passion in the Kulshan Chorus. Our Artistic Director, Dustin Willetts, has discovered diverse music from a Bollywood favorite to a traditional Roma tavern song—music to delight you with the beauty of people gathering together in their commitment community.

"Sometimes the only out is back through."

Join us on a moving multi-media journey toward openness, understanding, and a path toward dismantling racism through understanding white supremacy and privilege. Featuring many talented Greater Seattle-based musicians, including Duo-Organists Wanda Griffiths & Stephen Marshall-Ward with reSound, a Northwest Chamber Ensemble, Dave Beck, cello, Kyle Erickson, trumpet, Ian Alvarez, percussion, and filmed interviews with Plymouth Youth Forum members.

Discover the ageless beauty of forgotten Armenian Orthodox music. Directed by Haig Utidjian and Alexander Lingas, Cappella Romana leads an exploration of traditional Armenian chants and arrangements of them by Komitas and Ekmalian.

Join the members of Ancora as we explore choral music from the countries around the Baltic Sea. From Copenhagen to Saint Petersburg, from Stockholm to Riga, we will present current contributions to music written expressly for women’s voices.

"Sometimes the only out is back through."

Join us on a moving multi-media journey toward openness, understanding, and a path toward dismantling racism through understanding white supremacy and privilege. Featuring many talented Greater Seattle-based musicians, including Duo-Organists Wanda Griffiths & Stephen Marshall-Ward with reSound, a Northwest Chamber Ensemble, Dave Beck, cello, Kyle Erickson, trumpet, Ian Alvarez, percussion, and filmed interviews with Plymouth Youth Forum members.

Music inspired by dreams and invention.

PROGRAM
WHITACRE - Sleep
WHITACRE - Leonardo and his flying machine
WHITACRE - Water Night
WHITACRE - Lux Arumque
SIEGFRIED - Vidi Aquam
HALLOCK - There is a stream

SCHUETZ Alleluja! Lobet dem Herren!
SHAW and the swallow
STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms
DVORAK Žalm 149, Op. 79
BOULANGER Psaume CXXIX
WHITE Psalm 46

Blake Applegate, conductor of Cantores in Ecclesia and a director of the Byrd Festival, leads a program of Renaissance music in honor of the Mother of God, including Heinrich Isaac's "Virgo Prudentissima" and the "Missa de Beata Virgine" by Josquin des Prez.

Let Kirkland Choral Society provide you with the perfect Valentine’s gift! Carl Orff’s deliciously indulgent setting of medieval poetry on the pleasures of food, drink, and love, featuring a stellar cast of soloists. As an added bonus for our 30th anniversary season, KCS has commissioned one of our areas finest composers to write a new choral work for the occasion. Top it off with complimentary wine and chocolate for an afternoon (or evening) of absolute bliss.

Dark Night of the Soul, Poem by St. John of the Cross (1542-1591,) Music by Ola Gjeilo for SSAATTBB Chorus, Piano and String Quartet is the featured piece of our winter concert.

David Lang’s Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio based on the Hans Christian Anderson story will feature some of Seattle’s finest soloists in a concert that includes new choral works for the full ensemble.

Choir of the Sound and Thalia Symphony Orchestra present Handel’s masterpiece in its entirety.

Composers knew the importance of religious feast days and produced their best for the occasion. The program features richly scored music for six to eight parts by English Renaissance composers John Taverner and John Sheppard. The centerpiece of the program is Taverner’s best large-scale mass "Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas" written for Trinity Sunday. The program showcases the music at the height of the English Renaissance.

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Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil

In this eclectic program of diverse choral styles, colors, and moods you’ll savor sacred and secular treasures by classical masters Rheinberger (Abendlied) and Grieg (Ave maris stella), American icons Howard Hanson (Psalm 150) and Randall Thompson (The Best of Rooms), contemporary composers Ola Gjeilo (Ubi caritas), Pärt Uusberg (Muusika), Rosephanye Powell (The Word Was God), and much more. Two top area high school choirs join us as special guests!

In March, we celebrate the universal allure of a cappella choral music with a showcase of works by contemporary Asian and Asian-American composers, including the Indian subcontinent. The composers whose works are represented include Hyo-Won Woo, Sungji Hong, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, Budi Susanto Yohanes, Victor Paranjoti, and A.R. Rahman.

Shakespeare’s unmatched way with words has inspired many a composer throughout the centuries. Come relish the Bard’s brilliant poetry set to superb music, in Bellevue Presbyterian Church’s elegant sanctuary, and sung in MCE’s signature warm style.

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The weather report for this concert has something for everyone! Our three most advanced choirs, grades 7-12, will bring you a variety of composers, cultures, and styles with pieces like “La Lluvia,” “Your Friend Shall Be the Tall Wind,” “Quiet Sea,” and “The Storm Is Passing Over.” We promise to bring you safely through the storm to enjoy some musical sunshine, too!

Featuring Vivace, Amore and Ensemble.

Commissioned for the millennium and premiered in 2000, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace has become one the world’s favorite modern works. Composer Karl Jenkins uses numerous inspirations for his text, including the Muslim call to prayer, the sixteenth-century 'L’Homme armé' Mass tradition, and ancient religious texts. This anti-war work was dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo conflict. This concert is present as a collaboration between the Seattle Choral Company and Brass Band Northwest.

Medieval love songs contain elements so universal that they could almost constitute a “how-to” guide for romantic relationships at court. In this concert, we will learn to follow instructions.

A conglomeration of genres, tempos, attitudes, and eras. This concert will move from the rains of March into the blooms and smells of springtime. This concert will be a tapestry of chorale music from jazz to classical. In the Northwest we embrace the rain and yearn for the sun. This concert will do the same.

BRAHMS Tragic Overture
BOULANGER Du fond de l’abîme
FRANCK Symphony in D minor

Our mid-season concert offers unparalleled musical drama, combining dynamic CANW voices with orchestral strings and heralded soloist Hannah Consenz. Audience favorite Antonio Lotti’s Crucifixus a 8 begins the evening, setting the stage for two unmatched choral masterworks to follow: Johann Sebastian Bach’s sublime Easter cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden and Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds’s powerful Passion and Resurrection.

"The singing heart is always open, it’s beating out alive and free." So King’s Singers alumnus Bob Chilcott in his piece The Singing Heart, affirms the conviction that in our choir we create “a vision of peace and unity.” Join Director Mark Kloepper and the Chorus as we breathe in and share the music that helps move us toward that vision of unity and peace. We sing music from Josef Rheinberger, Charles Stanford, Randall Thompson, Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Leonard Cohen and more.

All Present song circle for people with dementia joins The OK Chorale for a green- themed concert

Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.

Commissioned for the millennium and premiered in 2000, The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace has become one the world’s favorite modern works. Composer Karl Jenkins uses numerous inspirations for his text, including the Muslim call to prayer, the sixteenth-century 'L’Homme armé' Mass tradition, and ancient religious texts. This anti-war work was dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo conflict. This concert is present as a collaboration between the Seattle Choral Company and Brass Band Northwest.

We present two major works: one ancient, one modern. William Byrd wrote his "Mass for Four Voices" while a Catholic hiding from Elizabethan oppression, and his deep devotion is clear in this richly sonorous masterpiece. More recently, Seattle composer Giselle Wyers has collected seven poetic texts into "And All Shall Be Well", a meditation on the legacy that persists after death. Both of these works triumph over their somber histories with brightness, optimism, and joy.

Opus 7, conducted by Loren Pontén, presents the Northwest premiere of Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian’s dramatic and moving “Requiem” for vocal soloists, choir, and string orchestra, “dedicated to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.” Also featured are two major works by Northwest composers: Bern Herbolsheimer’s “Stabat Mater” for soprano solo, choir, string quartet, and oboe; and “The King of Glory” by John Muehleisen, featuring Jubilate! (St. James Cathedral’s young women’s ensemble).

The title is a play on Lucrezia Marinella's feminist treatise ''The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men' (publushed 1600). This concert will feature music written by composers working for powerful women, or by women themselves. The program will feature songs from various eras and will be highlighted by Tallis' 'Gaude Gloriosa' and Byrd's 'Magnificat' from 'The Great Service.'

"The singing heart is always open, it’s beating out alive and free." So King’s Singers alumnus Bob Chilcott in his piece The Singing Heart, affirms the conviction that in our choir we create “a vision of peace and unity.” Join Director Mark Kloepper and the Chorus as we breathe in and share the music that helps move us toward that vision of unity and peace. We sing music from Josef Rheinberger, Charles Stanford, Randall Thompson, Emma Lou Diemer, Gwyneth Walker, Leonard Cohen and more.

This concert showcases music from our Winter session.

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A concert for all ages weaving music together with story-telling in the dell'arte
tradition. Featuring original theater created exclusively for this performance by Steven and Shannon O'Bent and in partnership with the Snohomish County Youth Chorus. Have an up-close experience after the concert in an interactive reception with the actors.

Due to popular demand, our three youngest choirs will perform two back-to-back weather-inspired concerts. You’ll hear blustery, rainy, stormy, and sunshiny music from around the United States as well as Australia, Indonesia, and Finland (“Who Can Sail Without the Wind”). Choose the concert time that is best for you!

Featuring Prep Choir, Fresca, and Amabile.

Bright Morning Stars, traditional Appalachian song arranged by Shawn Kirchner sets the tone for our spring concert of folk songs, sea shanties, Dickinson miniatures, and spirituals.

Cappella Romana presents the world-renowned Tallis Scholars, directed by Peter Philips, for a program of soaring Renaissance music inspired by the Sistine Chapel.

This April, SilverSounds Northwest celebrates something we all have in common: our names! Audiences are sure to enjoy familiar favorites such as Abba's Fernando, Jim Croce's Bad Bad Leroy Brown, and Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode. Complete with the clever storytelling and choreography that SilverSounds is known for, this concert promises to get your toes tappin', and perhaps even Wake Up Little Susie!

Featuring guest conductor Dr. Ray Lei Yu. Mid-week concert repertoire lecture, TBD.

In conjunction with the Listen to the Earth project, Kirkland Choral Society, Philharmonia Northwest, and a stellar line-up of soloists team up in Seattle's finest concert venue to celebrate Earth Day with Haydn’s crowning achievement--The Creation--one of the great masterworks of all time.

The Chorale looks forward to a tour through the riches of American choral and vocal music exploring different sounds along the way, whether sampling some of the earliest choral music on the continent, paying homage to profound compositions from composers like Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber, or switching things up with a little doo-wop and a cappella fun. Then, joined by a rock band, we’ll add some razzle-dazzle with high-energy songs from musical theatre, gospel, and popular music styles.

The Vashon Island Chorale celebrates its 30th anniversary with familiar classics by Bernstein, Copland, and Fauré, but also with Vaughan Williams's sumptuous "Serenade to Music" and Borodin's jubilant "Polovtsian Dances". Local composers Eric Lane Barnes and Buzz Brusletten, plus a quartet of extraordinary local soloists, add to the festive and fun occasion.

Handel’s most famous oratorio, unparalleled in both text and music, returns to Eastertide in a collaboration with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Alexander Weimann.

Alexander Weimann, Music Director
Markdavin Obenza, Byrd Ensemble Artistic Director

Earth Day, Watergate, the ERA, the Silent Majority – profound changes begun in the 1960’s continued in the 70’s. Inspired by monumental events, we celebrate the music that both captured and reflected that the earth was, indeed, movin’ under our feet.

Come listen to the Seattle Ladies Choir sing in perfect harmony at our Season 16 Concerts! We will be performing three shows at the Broadway Performance Hall in Capitol Hill! The hall is easily accessible via light rail and bus, and a 500-spot parking garage is located near the venue.

Friday, October 19, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (matinee) & 7:30 p.m.

BOULANGER D’un matin de printemps
BRAHMS Vier Gesänge, Op. 17
BACH Der Himmel Lacht!, BWV 31
CHOPIN work TBD
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 (“Spring”)

A joyous celebration of singing about singing. Vibrant melodis, a Russian folksong, and old favorites, with a children's choir.

Cappella Romana presents Psaltikon, the Boston-based Byzantine chant ensemble directed by Spyridon Antonopoulos, for a program of celebratory chants for Pascha (Easter) from Medieval Byzantium.

Earth Day, Watergate, the ERA, the Silent Majority – profound changes begun in the 1960’s continued in the 70’s. Inspired by monumental events, we celebrate the music that both captured and reflected that the earth was, indeed, movin’ under our feet.

- This concert will be presented by a smaller ensemble and will focus on music written in honor of female saints. We will offer motets and other works by various composers, including portions of the rarely performed 'Missa de Sancta Anna' by Pierre de la Rue.

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Our annual free cantata concert featuring 2 of Bach's cantatas.

Our final concert of the season will be a delightful choral exploration of nature and the environment. Works on the program include Dvorak’s Songs of Nature, new settings of the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir by Jake Runestad, and two new pieces on nature themes by John David Earnest, and Composer-in-Residence Rick Asher. Combined with several favorite guest artists, this concert promises festive choral colors that celebrate the natural beauty of planet Earth.

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Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.

The entire Seattle community is invited to help us celebrate our graduating choristers. Enjoy senior solos, the “senior song,” performances by Amore and Ensemble, and a cake reception. Free admission.

Featuring Amore and Ensemble.

This unique concert celebrates the rich heritage of choral works by composers from the same family, including Clara & Robert Schumann (wife and husband); Fanny Hensel & Felix Mendelssohn (sister and brother); Gustav & Imogen Holst (father and daughter); Herbert & Lisa Bielawa (also father and daughter); Leopold & Wolfgang Mozart (father and son); plus motets from the Bach family, and other familial combinations. The concert also includes winners of our annual Student Choral Composition Awards.

Music and dance belong together like pie and ice cream, especially in MCE’s tribute to dance songs. Enjoy an eclectic mix of styles, everything from Irving Berlin’s Dancing Cheek to Cheek to Brahms’s Liebeslieder Waltzes to PDQ Bach’s Liebeslieder Polkas…and more!

Ahoy, Burien! Join ChoralSounds Northwest this May for a concert that celebrates the deep blue seas. Highlights will include catchy sea shanties, cultural music and dance from various islands, and favorite selections from stage and screen, including Disney's Moana and the Broadway hit Once on This Island. Be sure to catch a wave with ChoralSounds this spring at On the Water!

Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds is one of the most exciting voices in choral music today, and his Passion and Resurrection is a crowning achievement that has earned him critical raves (“a powerful and impressive piece”, “surely set to become a classic”). This large-scale dramatic work for choir, soprano soloist, and strings will be presented along with Frank Martin’s incomparable Mass for Double Choir, and the world premiere of a new work by Seattle Pro Musica’s conductor, Karen P. Thomas.

We shine the spotlight on our youngest choristers in this charming and joyful year-end performance. Tickets sold at the door.

Featuring Prep Choir.

Don’t miss the grand finale of our anniversary season, as we present a reprise of some of our favorite classical, folk, jazz, and Broadway hits performed over the past 34 years...from Brahms to Bernstein, Mozart to Sondheim, Whitacre to Ellington, to name just a few. Plus, the public will have a voice on some of the repertoire chosen! Check our website in the months ahead for information on how to vote for your favorites, then join us for this musical celebration!

Join NWRS as we find inspiration in the experience of the homeward journey, and celebrate the indomitable human drive to overcome adversity.

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Antonín Dvořák’s Opus 63 serves as the anchor for an evening of music celebrating the natural world around us. The concert will include both new and familiar works sure to capture your imagination just as the Seattle Spring is in full bloom!

This May, YouthSounds Northwest is excited to return to the stage at Glendale Lutheran Church for a Saturday afternoon performance kicking off spring in the Northwest! You won’t want to miss the delightful innocence and joy of our youngest singers as they perform this entertaining program, showcasing a wide variety of their musical skills. We hope you'll join us and welcome the sunshine with a song and a smile!

Contemporary minimalist-style choral pieces.

PROGRAM
MUHLY - Pater noster
MUHLY - Small Raine
MUHLY - Our Present Charter
GLASS - Haze Gold
GLASS - A Clear Midnight
KERNIS - Ecstatic Meditations
OBENZA - Renaissance Now

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Three centuries of choral cantatas performed with members of the North Corner Chamber Orchestra (NOCCO). Rebekah Gilmore, soprano soloist.

Cantata No. 4 “Christ lag in Todesbanden” (Christ lay in in the bonds of death) by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Cantata “Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten” (He who allows dear God to rule him) by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Cantata “Triptych” by Tarik O’Regan (b. 1978)

Canto General, composed by famed Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, setting the poetry of Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda, is a powerful choral masterpiece, accompanied by three flutes, classical guitars, double bass, two pianos, and a vast array of exotic percussion instruments. This epic piece features contralto and baritone soloists. Neruda wrote his epic poem in 1939, broadening an earlier work to become a hymn to all of South America.

Last July we had the amazing opportunity to visit and perform in Ireland while on tour, and now we're excited to share her evocative music with you! You'll hear stunning arrangements of “Danny Boy” and “Wild Mountain Thyme.” You’ll move in rhythm to joyful, rollicking jigs and reels, and enjoy stirring selections from Ireland’s famed groups, Celtic Woman and Celtic Thunder. And of course, the evening would not be complete without a good ol’ Irish pub sing-along!

We celebrate the multifaceted nature of joy, including the exuberance of William Walton's "The Twelve", the sober devotion of Kevin Siegfried's "Shaker Songs", and the rich variety within Bach's "Jesu, meine Freude". As an added bonus, you'll hear three works by our Composer-in-Residence, the eponymous Joy DeCoursey-Porter.

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This concert showcases music from our Spring session.

Choir of the Sound highlights women singers, songwriters, and artists, from blues to Beyoncé!

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Canto General, composed by famed Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, setting the poetry of Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda, is a powerful choral masterpiece, accompanied by three flutes, classical guitars, double bass, two pianos, and a vast array of exotic percussion instruments. This epic piece features contralto and baritone soloists. Neruda wrote his epic poem in 1939, broadening an earlier work to become a hymn to all of South America.

Last July we had the amazing opportunity to visit and perform in Ireland while on tour, and now we're excited to share her evocative music with you! You'll hear stunning arrangements of “Danny Boy” and “Wild Mountain Thyme.” You’ll move in rhythm to joyful, rollicking jigs and reels, and enjoy stirring selections from Ireland’s famed groups, Celtic Woman and Celtic Thunder. And of course, the evening would not be complete without a good ol’ Irish pub sing-along!

Chorus sings Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna for choir and orchestra with members of NW Sinfonietta. "Let perpetual light shine on them" says this incredible masterwork by one of the great American choral composers of our time. Adding to this program are Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo, Light Everlasting by Olaf Christiansen, and Jim Clements’ lush arrangement of Kate Rusby’s Underneath the Stars.

Based on the Victor Hugo novel and songs from the Disney film and broadway play.

It happens that one of the earliest and largest written sources of polyphonic music—music for multiple voices—is wholly dedicated to the Feast of St. James as it was celebrated at his great pilgrimage shrine, the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The Codex Calixtinus was an international effort, but it has been housed in Santiago since the 12th century. The choir and soloists are pleased to bring this music from the Saint’s cathedral in Spain to his Cathedral in Seattle.

Take a journey with Northwest Girlchoir through some of the most beautiful and beloved songs we’ve ever performed, such as “Homeward Bound,” “Untraveled Worlds,” “900 Miles,” and “Wayfarin’ Stranger.” We’ll feature a variety of pieces about travel, journeys (physical, emotional, spiritual), and the experience of having to leave one’s country for another. Our choristers will take these songs with them as they travel the world on tour this summer.

Featuring Fresca, Amabile, Vivace, Amore, and

Powerful and poignant music about the meaning of home with our collected voices raised for those in need of food and shelter. Presented in partnership with local food and housing service organizations.

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No MCE season would be complete without our popular tribute to Independence Day in Issaquah’s historic Pickering Barn, with lots of sing alongs, historical commentary, and all-American music. This year’s theme: America’s First Ladies.

The Mill Creek Chorale is pleased to sponsor this Choir Festival intended for Individuals and top Adult Community and Church Choirs! Dr. John Leavitt will be conducting a thrilling program of his most well-loved pieces.

Tentative Schedule:
Saturday, July 13 – 9am-1pm & 3pm-6pm - Festival Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, July 14 – 1pm-2pm - Final rehearsal and sound-check; 3pm Concert

Contact the Mill Creek Chorale for more information - millcreekchorale@gmail.com