Selections from Schütz’s Psalmen Davids frame this program of beginnings. The tracing of Jesus’ ancestry back to Adam, Pärt’s hypnotic “Which was the son of…,” serves as the centerpiece linking settings from the Genesis creation narrative with German chorales and Latin motets for Advent—the beginning of the church year.

Meridian Ensemble's new program ‘The Gravity of Beauty’ provides the Seattle area audiences with a rare opportunity to hear some of Russia’s finest secular choral repertoire created by such leading Russian composers of choral music in late 19th – early 20th centuries as Kalinnikov, Arensky, Kui, and Rachmaninov. The program also features a few gems by European masters of choral music – Saint-Saent, Brahms, Reger, Elgar – who developed artistic ties with Russia and greatly enriched cultural exchange between Russia and the West during that era.
Saturday 11/23, 7:00 PM, Magnolia United Church of Christ, Seattle
Sunday 11/24, 2:00 PM, Saint Clement's Episcopal Church, Seattle
Tickets are available at door and at: https://meridianensemble.net/events

John Rutter's beautiful double-choir motet, Hymn to the Creator of Light, was written for the dedication of the Herbert Howells memorial window in Gloucester Cathedral in 1992. Few music teachers in twentieth-century Britain were more influential than Howells, who greeted his first class at London's Royal College of Music in 1920 and his last over 50 years later. Rutter (b. 1945) carries Howells' torch in his dual roles as a prolific choral composer and conductor of the superb Cambridge Singers. As always, Rutter is sensitive to the text, but he does especially lovely work here with the word 'light'.

Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”

The Byrd Ensemble and Seattle Baroque Orchestra join forces once again for a performance of Bach's "Wachet auf" and "Magnificat," at the newly renovated Town Hall in Seattle.

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Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”

Doors open at 2:40pm. Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.

We are excited to have Doug Fullington as guest conductor for AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS, a fun and lively performance of early American music from New England, Appalachian, and Shaker traditions. AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS is a perfect performance for families, friends, and children to celebrate the holiday season. Raucous tunes in the shapenote tradition; simple, heartfelt Shaker melodies; and the proud and vigorous New England "primitive" style will take the audience on a journey discovering holiday fare from the variety of traditions that combine to create America's vital and inspiring musical heritage. This narrated performance features songs and carols for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year.

PROGRAM

William BILLINGS: O praise the Lord of heaven
Nehemiah SHUMWAY: Schenectady
William WALKER: Sweet prospect
Joseph STEPHENSON: Anthem from Luke
Edward FRENCH: New Bethlehem
Jeremiah INGALLS: Redemption
BILLINGS: Judea
BILLINGS: Shiloh
STEPHENSON: Milford
SHAKER: I will bow and be simple
SHAKER: Love is little
SHAKER: Lay me low
SHAKER: New Year’s greeting
TRADITIONAL: I saw three ships
TRADITIONAL: Joys Seven
TRADITIONAL: The cherry tree
Daniel READ: Sherburne

You are invited to join the Mill Creek Chorale for their annual Holiday Concert at Bothell United Methodist Church, conveniently located next to Bothell High School and Downtown Bothell.

This holiday concert will feature Sacred and Secular music with titles that include -
Away in a Manger - Ola Gjeilo
Festival First Nowell - Dan Forrest
Wexford Carol - Elaine Hagenberg
I wish you Christmas - John Rutter
His Light in Us - Kim André Arnesen
Ain't That-A Rockin' - Stacey V. Gibbs
Christmas on Broadway, Childhood Christmas Favorites, and Baby, It's Cold Outside...

Jonathon Stafford and Sarah Moran, directors
Liz Hopkins, piano

Cookie Sale!
Shop for holiday treats at the show.

Our beloved holiday concerts feature J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Philharmonia Northwest, plus contemporary choral delights focusing on the guiding light of sun, moon, and stars. For many, this concert has become a favorite annual tradition.

Dylan Thomas’ unforgettable ode to his childhood Christmases is a perfect setting for songs of the season. We have chosen outstanding arrangements of traditional carols to be sung interspersed with Thomas’ joyous storytelling as narrated by well-known actor David Pichette. Thomas' idyllic memories of childhood features exaggerated characters whose antics connect strongly with a broad audience. In this concert we’ll sing favorite music of the season from both sides of the pond. You'll hear contributions by Eleanor Daley, Melinda Bargreen, John Taverner, Hubert Bird and others in this delightful holiday program.

Our poignant adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved classic A Christmas Carol, for chorus and readers theater, is back by popular demand! Encounter the true spirit of Christmas in this timeless tale of redemption and joy; with David Ketter and John Deveney returning once again as the Narrator and Scrooge.

Bring your family and friends to the Northwest Repertory Singers celebration of the Christmas season! Featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria with orchestra, contrasting modern works, and traditional carols for choir and audience.

A fun romp through revamped Christmas Classics, with a Rousing Raffle to follow!

Join us for a musical feast of carols and sacred works that has a little something for everyone. We are also excited to feature several pieces by local composer Robert Kechley.

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!

ChoralSounds Northwest and VocalSounds Northwest are delighted to return to the Eastside this December to perform a festive concert at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Bellevue, featuring a guest string quartet in a special performance of beautiful holiday music. The dreamy sounds of composer Ola Gjeilo are a highlight in this concert that also includes works by Eric Whitacre, Edward Elgar, and many more!

Traditional Carols and Songs from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
This year's Magnolia Chorale December concert will also feature the Seattle Lilla Spelmanslag directed by Martha Levenson. This group of young musicians from age 8 to 18, play traditional Scandinavian folk music in the greater Seattle area.

Two Concerts | Two Venues!

Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 2:00pm
First Free Methodist Church, 3200 3rd Ave W, Seattle
Featuring Amabile, Vivace, and Amore

Sunday, December 8, 2019 | 2:00pm
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle
Featuring Fresca, Vivace, and Amore

From beautiful settings of the Magnificat and L’dor Vador, to gems like “Winter Wonderland” and “Children, Go Where I Send Thee,” to songs from the Phillipines, Norway, and Greece, you’ll hear exciting repertoire that honors family traditions and music that have been passed down through the generations. We’ll be joined on stage by generations of treble-singing family members and alums to perform our concert finale, “Catch the Spirit, Share the Magic.” Stay tuned on how you can get involved!

Come see our winter concerts featuring cheery Christmas classics ranging from choral art music to gospel. Our large work this year is "Carols and Lullabies" by Conrad Susa which is a collection of Spanish folk songs from a variety of Spanish cultures and dialects set to harp, guitar, and marimba and vibraphone. Come celebrate with us!

We're expanding our concerts to THREE performances! Evening concerts on Friday and Saturday (perfect for date night!) with a matinee on Sunday. Get your tickets online ASAP because we're sold out at 200 tickets per night!

Don't forget, we will also be hosting a silent auction to raise funds for next year's music! Come support us and get a basket of yummy treats!

Get your tickets HERE https://sonoro-great-joy.brownpapertickets.com/

Join Bellevue Youth Choirs for an afternoon celebrating the beauty and wonder of Heaven and Earth. Works by Gwyneth Walker and John Rutter will joyfully welcome you and your family to the holiday season! Our choristers will also invite the audience to join in a sing-a-long of our favorite winter songs.
Featuring the Prima, Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, and Premier Choirs.

Our annual December concert is a delightful blend of seasonal and holiday favorites, both new and old. It is an enjoyable time for all. You'll even have a chance to stretch your own vocal cords with our sing along time. We look forward to seeing you there!

Bring in the holiday season with traditional Norwegian songs and new favorites!
After the concert, enjoy a lovely dessert buffet!

Everett Chorale will be presenting its annual Holiday concert around the theme of Joy! Welcome the season with the sound of brass and shades of joy from triumphant to quiet ecstasy. Featuring The Pinkham Christmas Cantata with Brass Quintet and music from Beethoven, Bach and Lauridsen.

Christmas concert with Chamber Orchestra and piano accompaniments.

Coming home at Christmas means a return to the heart, a return to the memories that shaped us, a return to the possibilities of making a new and better future while honoring the past. In this concert, we celebrate being wherever home is at Christmas.

We are also very excited to premier a new work by a local student composer, the prize-winner in our recent Student Composition Competition. Come join us in celebration of this new work, and of our eternal journey home.

An elegant prelude to the holiday season Lessons and Carols is a wonderful English tradition dating back to 1880, but popularized by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge in 1918. The general format is a reading from the bible (usually the King James version, as it is an Anglican tradition), starting with younger members of the chorus and progressing “up” through the group. The reading is followed by a song by the choir related to the reading, followed by a carol sung by the whole audience.

Allegra has been invited to join the Byrd Ensemble to present this Lessons and Carols program. The Byrd Ensemble is a highly acclaimed Seattle-based professional ensemble that performs regularly in the region and internationally.

Ring in the holiday season with Seattle Girls Choir! Join Prime Voci and Cantamus as they sing classics celebrating winter and the holiday season, and sing along with some of your favorite carols. A great concert for the whole family!

In medieval Europe, the Christmas season was always celebrated in a big way. The harvest was in, and the short, cold days of winter were all the inducement needed to stay close to the fire and busy oneself with feasting, merriment and song. One type of song, the carol, was so frequently written with Christmas gatherings in mind that today we can hardly imagine any other kind. The joy of Christmas imbued church music as well with the same tuneful glow. The Medieval Women’s Choir tours England and the Continent to bring you the most inspiring music of the season.

Scandinavia has contributed many traditions that we see celebrated in the United States, such as Advent wreaths, candles, and calendars. Christmas seals were first seen in Denmark. And the Scandinavian culture in turn adopted other European Christmas traditions, such as the German Christmas tree and the Dutch Santa Claus. The musical traditions are equally charming. Scandinavian Christmas music, often based on folk songs, blends cheer and melancholy into a unique sound.

The Seattle Choral Company will present a broad range of music from this region, from simple folk song arrangements to sophisticated classical settings of traditional and modern texts, including these works:

“Advent” by Otto Olsson
“Forunderligt at sige” by Carl Nielsen
“Jul Jul, Strålande Jul” by Gustav Nordqvist
“Det hev ei rose sprunge” by Ola Gjeilo
“Ave Maris Stella” by Edvard Grieg
“Gaudete” Suite arr. by Anders Öhrwall
“En etsi valtaa loistoa” by Jan Sibelius
“Sankta Lucia” arr. by Barlow Bradford
“Marjatan Jouluvirsi” by Einojuhani Rautavaara

Pre-concert talk @ 7:00 pm
Family carol sing-along @ 7:30 pm
Concert begins @ 8:00 pm

The choirs of Seattle Children’s Chorus will celebrate the season through their performances of glorious choral anthems and carols, telling the extraordinary story of “One Starry Night”, the night heaven came to earth. The skies over Bethlehem were lit up with unforgettable light, including one particular star that captured the attention of humble shepherds and traveling kings. The sights and sounds filling the heavens that night have been the inspiration of composers for over two thousand years.

Our 1:00p.m. concert features our younger choirs including: Poco a Poco, Brio and Intermezzo. This concert will sing the story from a younger child’s perspective. The celebration will be an interactive and family friendly performance.

Our 4:00p.m. performance featuring Arioso, Camerata and Coro Vivo presents the story in a more formal concert setting.

Come celebrate the wonders of this season through the angelic sounds of our SCC Choirs.

The choirs of Seattle Children’s Chorus will celebrate the season through their performances of glorious choral anthems and carols, telling the extraordinary story of “One Starry Night”, the night heaven came to earth. The skies over Bethlehem were lit up with unforgettable light, including one particular star that captured the attention of humble shepherds and traveling kings. The sights and sounds filling the heavens that night have been the inspiration of composers for over two thousand years.

Our 1:00p.m. concert features our younger choirs including: Poco a Poco, Brio and Intermezzo. This concert will sing the story from a younger child’s perspective. The celebration will be an interactive and family friendly performance.

Our 4:00p.m. performance featuring Arioso, Camerata and Coro Vivo presents the story in a more formal concert setting.

Come celebrate the wonders of this season through the angelic sounds of our SCC Choirs.

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Celebrate the Christmas season with traditional carols, plus less common fare. Featuring works by area composers Bern Herbolsheimer, Greg Bartholomew, Joy Porter, and Andrew Jacobson. Also music by Stephen Paulus, John Rutter, Dale Trumbore, Sean Kirchner, and others.

Holiday classics and contemporary songs, all with delightful barbershop harmony. The SeaChordsmen will be joined by two Sweet Adelines (women) Choruses and Ballard High School youth choruses in a festival of a cappella music for the season. And audience sing-alongs will probably break out. Past shows have sold out, so get your tickets as soon as you can. And check back regularly for updates.

Old traditions take on new life, and new traditions take root in Choir of the Sound’s celebration of the holiday season. From the medieval melodies of Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," to fresh arrangements of classic Christmas songs, to carols for the new millennium by Pentatonix and Tom Lehrer, this show will bridge past and present to revive your love of the winter holidays and get you in the mood to welcome Yule!

We will be singing the following pieces in our Fall Concert Series of four concerts.

Brightest & Best - Shawn Kirchner
Sure on this Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen
Sicut Locutus Est - Bach
Magnificat in C Major - Schubert
Glory to God in the Highest - Pergolesi
For Unto Us a Child is Born - Handel
Silent Night - arr. Dan Forest
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Ground - Ola Gjeilo

Seattle Girls Choir Bringing in some Holiday Cheer. Showcasing 3 of our younger choir levels Dolcine 1st & 2nd grade, Vivissimmi 3rd & 4th Grade and we will be introducing Entrata our newest choir level.

Entrata is the new entry point for new choristers in grades 3-5. This choir will have slightly more emphasis on core musicianship and literacy skills. At the end of this year long program Entrata choristers will move into Vivissimi or Allegra (girls 10 yrs or older).

Wintersong offers an evening of reflection on our world and our place in it. In this performance that opens our second season, Vox Pacifica, directed by Wendy Bloom along with Emily Gantt on piano, will address the themes of home, peace, and connection through the music of Ola Gjeilo, Joan Szymko, Gwyneth Walker, and Stephen Paulus. The choir will also perform Benjamin Britten’s much beloved ‘Ceremony of Carols’ with guest soloist Teresa Lenssen, accompanied on harp by Alishia Joubert, along with several traditional Hanukkah songs beautifully arranged by Charles Baker. Please join our family of singers for this special December program.

Expect old favorites and new wonders, in a truly inclusive take on the meaning of our holiday traditions. And, of course, there will be an audience sing-along of holiday favorites.

This concert will feature our Melodia, Harmonia, Ragazzi and Lyrica choirs.

This concert will feature out Bel Canto Children's Choir and Cantabile Vocal Ensemble.

Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”

City Cantabile Choir performs the Gospel Magnificat with Gospel composer Kent Stevenson paired with traditional Celtic music. See the dance dialogue of step and tap dancers on the same stage.

We invite you for an elegant and reflective concert celebrating the holiday season.

The program includes Benjamin Britten’s stunning choral masterpiece, A Ceremony of Carols, for harp and treble voices. You'll also hear beautiful new settings of ancient carols by John Rutter, Paul Carey, and Sarah Quartel.

Featuring Prime Voci of Seattle Girls Choir, Juliet Stratton on harp, and Susanna Valleau on piano.

Dylan Thomas’ unforgettable ode to his childhood Christmases is a perfect setting for songs of the season. We have chosen outstanding arrangements of traditional carols to be sung interspersed with Thomas’ joyous storytelling as narrated by well-known actor David Pichette. Thomas' idyllic memories of childhood features exaggerated characters whose antics connect strongly with a broad audience. In this concert we’ll sing favorite music of the season from both sides of the pond. You'll hear contributions by Eleanor Daley, Melinda Bargreen, John Taverner, Hubert Bird and others in this delightful holiday program.

Hugo Distler’s Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (“The Christmas Story”) is one of the rare large-scale masterpieces for unaccompanied chorus to emerge from the twentieth century. Composing in mid-century Germany, Distler integrated elements of medieval style into his nevertheless modern musical language. Die Weihnachtsgeschichte recounts the Biblical story with a featured role for solo tenor. The other shorter works on this concert give glimpses of the Christmas story with an unusual twist, whether it be from the point of view of Joseph, an adolescent Jesus teased by other children, the shepherds regretting the holy family’s departure, or worshipful oxen in their Victorian stable.

Join us for a musical feast of carols and sacred works that has a little something for everyone. We are also excited to feature several pieces by local composer Robert Kechley.

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!

Northwest Associated Arts proudly presents our annual Christmas tradition, ChristmasSounds in Burien. Five choruses totaling nearly 150 singers, ages 9 to 90, come together to sing in the season, delighting audience members of all ages! We invite you to enjoy beloved favorites like Grown-Up Christmas List and The Wexford Carol, combined with the sing-along joy of White Christmas and Deck the Halls. This festive show is perfect Christmas fun for the whole family and promise to leave you filled with the spirit of the holidays!

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Join us on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 10am to 2pm for our annual holiday Christmas market! For the second year, l’Alliance Française de Seattle has partnered with Goethe Pop Up Seattle to bring you a true European Christmas Market experience, featuring handmade arts, crafts, and products from local artisans and businesses. Discover typical French and German holiday drinks, food and delicatessen, enjoy French and German choir performances and make sure not to miss Santa’s visit!

The Christmas Market will take place in the Chapel Performance Space (4th floor) in the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle (4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103).

The Christmas Market will benefit educational and cultural programs of l’Alliance Française de Seattle in 2020.

The Family Concert is a shorter, one-hour-long performance including much of the repertoire featured in the full-length Bainbridge Chorale holiday concert, designed to appeal to all ages. Bainbridge Youth Choir singers will sing some holiday songs as well.

The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. 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.

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Celebrate the joy of the season with Seattle Girls Choir as they share A Gift of Song. SGC will ring in the season with a variety of seasonal songs for treble voices featuring all auditioned levels. Along with familiar tunes, you'll be introduced to some new songs that are sure to become holiday classics.

A timeless classic and a Seattle tradition. Join OSSCS as we once again present the region’s only performances of Handel’s full and unabridged score.

Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
José Rubio, baritone

A timeless classic and a Seattle tradition. Join OSSCS as we once again present the region’s only performances of Handel’s full and unabridged score.

Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
José Rubio, baritone

Fun and lively Chanukah Concert. 4 pm on Sunday December 15th at Temple Beth Am. Some new arrangements along with some old favorites. And, of course, our traditional bake sale with Challah and goodies galore. Families welcome. Ticket discount available for Seniors and Children. No one will be turned away for the cost of a ticket. So come and start your Chanukah celebrations at the Seattle Jewish Chorale’s December 15th Concert.

Nothing says “Happy Holidays” quite like Christmas lights twinkling off the brassy bell of a tuba! This Christmas we’re inviting a whole set of brass players to join us, also including trumpets, French horns, and trombones, plus a cohort of percussionists! We’ll give a nod to the brass-and-vocal choirs of the late Renaissance and to the British colliery (brass band) tradition, add a sprinkling of familiar Christmas tunes, and cap the concert with John Rutter’s thrilling Gloria.

The Chorale celebrates the past ten years under the baton of Artistic Director Michael Austin Miller with a retrospective of singer and audience favorite holiday works, as well as some new selections by Eric Whitacre, John Rutter and Christopher Tin. Join us to hear our favorites and sing some Christmas carols, too!

Our performances are sure to live up to this reminiscent name! Featuring fun and energetic selections such as “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Feliz Navidad,” this concert will entertain the whole family. We will be accompanied by the region’s top instrumentalists forming a rockin’ quartet, including our very own Debbie DeMiero. And, with musical offerings from Hanukkah and Kwanza, we are excited to celebrate the entire holiday season with you. It’s a time for coming together, being merry, and most of all, it’s a season for singing. Bring the whole family and be enriched together.

Prum! Ding-Dong! Pat-a-pan! Allelulia! Come see the ladies of The Lake Washington Singers as they regale you with the sounds of the season from throughout the world. Travel with us as we sing holiday repertoire from England, Russia, Liberia, Ukraine, Mexico, Germany, and more. Genres include classical, folk, spirituals, jazz, and pop and include compositions from Mozart, Britten, P.D.Q. Bach, and more.
With such a varied program, your toes will be tappin', smiles will be happen'n, and you are guaranteed to leave hummin' a tune.

This program will convey our desire for emotional simplicity. We’ll consider the origins of humility as a result of hiding, surrender, sorrow, or gratitude, and will explore contexts in which we find ourselves humble: while tenderly in love, or in need, or witnessing the majesty of nature. HUMILITY will feature writings from many sources, set to music by Gabriela Lena Frank, Stacy Garrop, Anna-Karin Klockar, David Lang, Forrest Pierce, Sarah Rimkus, Sarah Riskind, Augusta Read Thomas, and Dale Trumbore.

Kitsap Community Chorale presents the 2019 winter concert featuring special guests from the Olalla Elementary Choir.

Coming home at Christmas means a return to the heart, a return to the memories that shaped us, a return to the possibilities of making a new and better future while honoring the past. In this concert, we celebrate being wherever home is at Christmas.

We are also very excited to premier a new work by a local student composer, the prize-winner in our recent Student Composition Competition. Come join us in celebration of this new work, and of our eternal journey home.

Join us in celebrating this most joyous time of year as your local Nordic heritage choirs come together to sing their most beautiful carols and hymns. There will be fika (cookies and coffee) afterwards!

Northwest Sound is excited to present its annual holiday shows with a stirring mix of new songs and popular favorites, featuring outstanding quartets from within the chorus, introducing our new mixed voice chorus Northwest Mix, and special guests Emerald City Voices who showcase a unique blend of music and humor.

Celebrate the true holiday spirit of joy and peace with Choral Arts NW’s annual offering of traditional carols paired with intimate interludes by Seattle guitarist Robert McCaffery-Lent. Highlights this year include charming Appalachian carols by CANW Composer in Residence Kevin Siegfried, Silly Shepherds by NW composer Bern Herbolsheimer, and enchanting choral gems by Purcell, Howells, and Susan LaBarr. You won’t want to miss this treasured opportunity to step away from the bustle and into a realm of rarified beauty that is CANW’s Not One Sparrow is Forgotten.

Join us for two separate performances. Our younger choirs, Dolce and Bel Canto perform at 5:30 p.m.; our older choirs, Coro Voce, Cantabile and Forza perform at 7:30 p.m.

For centuries, humans have reveled and sought comfort in festivals of light during the darkest time of year. Join us for afternoon and evening concerts of warm, joyous choral music from winter traditions around the world. Along with cherished solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah music, we’ll share choral works from other festivals of light.

St. James Cathedral Resident Ensemble Opus 7 welcomes the holiday season with a stunning program of choral music for Advent and Christmas. This concert features Gerald Finzi’s Magnificat, selections from Frank Ferko’s Hildegard Motets and Benjamin Britten’s Christ’s Nativity, John Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of Light, Wisconsin composer Nancy Wertsch’s Antiphon for God the Father, and music by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. Pacific Northwest composers will be represented by Jessica French, Peter Hallock and Opus 7’s own composer-in-residence, John Muehleisen. Please join us as we present sublime choral sounds of the season with Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble under the baton of Artistic Director Loren Pontén.

Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.

Reserved Seating is available by advance donation.

Suggested donation is $40 in advance for Preferred Seating, $25 in advance, $30 at the door for General Seating, $20 in advance, $24 at the door for Seniors and students donate as able at the door with student ID.

Brighten up your holidays with this festive concert from The Northwest Firelight Chorale! Our ever popular holiday program will include stunning arrangements of seasonal favorites, a glorious gospel showstopper, a festive sing-along, and the kind of joyful surprises that we are known for!

We will be singing the following pieces in our Fall Concert Series of four concerts.

Brightest & Best - Shawn Kirchner
Sure on this Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen
Sicut Locutus Est - Bach
Magnificat in C Major - Schubert
Glory to God in the Highest - Pergolesi
For Unto Us a Child is Born - Handel
Silent Night - arr. Dan Forest
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Ground - Ola Gjeilo

Join us for wonderful holiday and seasonal songs at Seattle First Baptist Church. $20 suggested donation. Refreshments to follow.

Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”

We invite you for an elegant and reflective concert celebrating the holiday season.

The program includes Benjamin Britten’s stunning choral masterpiece, A Ceremony of Carols, for harp and treble voices. You'll also hear beautiful new settings of ancient carols by John Rutter, Paul Carey, and Sarah Quartel.

Featuring Prime Voci of Seattle Girls Choir, Juliet Stratton on harp, and Susanna Valleau on piano.

The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. 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.

With a mix of the fun and the sublime, the Ensign Symphony & Chorus celebrate the Christmas season with an uplifting look at this festive season. Come to hear your Christmas favorites, be touched by tenderness, be taken on a musicological journey through the twelve days of Christmas, and experience an audience sing-along.

Savor the rich culture of the Americas in this program featuring over a dozen different North, Central, and Southern American composers. Argentinian composer Fernando Moruja’s rarely heard Piezas Sacras sets the stage with a message of light and hope. Several pieces with percussion as well as Spanish and Haitian creole holiday texts will get the audience tapping their feet. North American composers Barnum, Lauridsen and Runestad offer prayers for victims and for immigrants. We offer this concert in solidarity, with messages of hospitality, light, love, and hope for a better tomorrow!

The OK Chorale is joined by All Present, a song circle for people with memory loss to celebrate the holidays with songs.

For centuries, humans have reveled and sought comfort in festivals of light during the darkest time of year. Join us for afternoon and evening concerts of warm, joyous choral music from winter traditions around the world. Along with cherished solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah music, we’ll share choral works from other festivals of light.

Brighten up your holidays with this festive concert from The Northwest Firelight Chorale! Our ever popular holiday program will include stunning arrangements of seasonal favorites, a glorious gospel showstopper, a festive sing-along, and the kind of joyful surprises that we are known for!

Quickly becoming an audience favorite, this annual holiday program of choral gems is designed to relax the soul in what is sometimes called the busiest time of year. You don't want to miss this comforting set of both sacred and secular music for wintertime. Bring a cozy loved one and watch your stress melt away.

The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. 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.

This holiday program is sure to delight and bring a smile! Opus 7 performs a concert of light and fanciful settings of Christmas carols and holiday favorites. The program will include selections of Alfred Burt carols and arrangements by Sir David Willcocks, William Walton, Lajos Bárdos, Stephen Paulus, and many others. Please join us for this journey through Christmas traditions around the world.

Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.

Preferred Seating: $40 in advance
General Seating: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Seniors: $20 in advance, $24 at the door
Students: Pay as able at the door with student ID

Kulshan Chorus takes the stage at the Mount Baker Theatre on January 4, 2020. Our performance, "Light is Returning" shows how hope transcends even the darkest hour. Artistic Director, Dustin Willetts, has chosen several songs which present stories of triumph over adversity. Join us as we sing works by award winning-composer Jake Runestad, alongside fabulous others such as Craig Hella Johnson, Pentatonix, & Gawthrop. It will be an uplifting evening to remember!

This concert features the best Franco-Flemish composers of the Renaissance. The centerpiece of the program Orlando Lassus's mass setting "Missa super Bell' Amfitrit' altera," scored for eight voices. Accompanying the mass, are two motets by Josquin and Gombert, based on King David's lament over his beloved son Absalom.

SWC rocks the vote with a timely and rousing concert that marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and decries the continued struggle for free and fair voting rights for all people. Featuring “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “R.O.C.K. in the USA,” and The Beatles’ “Revolution.” Plus, a new commission, “Lifting as We Climb,” inspired by the words of suffragist Mary Church Terrill, charter member of the NAACP.

SWC rocks the vote with a timely and rousing concert that marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and decries the continued struggle for free and fair voting rights for all people. Featuring “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “R.O.C.K. in the USA,” and The Beatles’ “Revolution.” Plus, a new commission, “Lifting as We Climb,” inspired by the words of suffragist Mary Church Terrill, charter member of the NAACP.

Quinn MASON, A Joyous Trilogy [world premiere]
MOZART, Clarinet Concerto
STRAVINSKY, Le sacre du printemps

A world premiere by young composer-conductor Quinn Mason, a performance of Mozart’s exquisite clarinet concerto by SSO principal clarinetist Ben Lulich, and Igor Stravinsky’s epochal The Rite of Spring make this a concert for the ages.

The Everett Chorale will be performing Beethoven's Ninth a Symphony (Choral Finale) at Benaroya with various other local artists including Choir of the Sound, Rainier Chorale and the Thalia Symphony. There will be performances by local soloists including the Everett Chorale's own Artistic Director Jennifer Rodgers. This event will be conducted by Mark Adrian. Please contact an Everett Chorale member for tickets or call
978-502-5351

Music of struggle, death, and renewed hope.

PROGRAM

RUNESTAD Fear Not, Dear Friend
BARBER Agnus Dei
ELDER - Shadows Will Fall
DIORIO - I Am

SHORT/WILBERG The Dying Soldier
TICHELI There will be rest
TICHELI Earth Song
BARBER The Virgin Martyrs
BARBER Let Down The Bars, O Death (Op. 8)

Vox Pacifica is excited to announce its second annual production of ‘Vox & Friends: Uncorked – A Musical Cabaret’ directed by Vox’s artistic director, Wendy Bloom.

Uncorked, a benefit for Vox Pacifica, will offer an evening of lively, provocative, engaging tunes performed by our choral ensemble, as well as numerous solo, duet, and small group numbers. Some of this year’s guest singers include Cassidy Bloom, Naomi Pomerantz, Anneliese Floyd, Beth Fuller, Amanda Bloom – and more!

In keeping with one of the cabaret’s themes, each night we will raffle off a flight in a private plane that will take you soaring over Vancouver and the Canadian Coastal Mountains!

Please join Vox Pacifica and Friends for this fun and very lively evening of entertainment!

Emerald Ensemble and the National Nordic Museum present music from Sweden. Traditional favorites by Stenhammar, Olsson, Wikander, and Alfvén will stand beside more modern works by Lundvik, Sixten, Jan and Sven-David Sandström, and others.

Join KCS and friends for a timely celebration of community and love, featuring local guest artists and composers. Complimentary chocolate and wine are a bonus feature of this joyful event.

The image of the Phoenix rising out of the ashes comes originally from Egyptian mythology but was taken over by the early Christians as a symbol of the resurrection of Christ from the dead. From its opening bars, this work, with its unique combination of instruments and voices, succeeds in transporting both performers and listeners. Indeed, this transcendence to a "resurrection experience," the essence of this piece, is captured so vividly through the musical medium as the drama of the text unfolds.

Anne Lyman and Leann Conley-Holcom have been talking for years about wanting to do more singing locally - specifically, challenging repertoire with a small group of excellent singers and minimal rehearsal time. This concert and project ensemble is the result of our dreaming and scheming about how to make this possible. We have put together a beautiful program for you and look forward to sharing it!

Join us for the first-ever performance of
MUSING: A COLLABORATION OF VOCAL ARTISTS.

Free Admission!

This is one concert you’re not going to want to miss! It's yet another electric and eclectic program with songs about empowerment, taking risks, expanding horizons and more, with accompaniments by our professional-level instrumentalist friends. “This is Me” from The Greatest Showman, Kansas's “Dust in the Wind”, Arlen's “Over the Rainbow," a choreographed "Juntos" by Jim Papoulis, Andrea Ramsey's “Letter from a Girl to the World," fun folk songs from around the world and Primo Voce's "Leap Year" round out one of the most delightful RYC programs yet.

Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.

Seattle Shores Chorus Operation Smile Benefit at 92nd Street Church of Christ in Marysville, WA on March 7th at 2:00. Learn about Operatio Smile and enjoy a 2 hour show of barbershop harmony. Performers: Seattle Shores Chorus, Seattle Seachordsmen, Harmony Northwest, additional Quartets and introducing Barbershop Octets from Monroe High School. Come Enjoy and Help.

This concert has been POSTPONED until a future date. Please see our website for more details.

Welcome to a musical and spiritual journey that takes a deeper look at what it means to “belong”, from our role in the larger global family (It Takes a Whole Village), to a more intimate look at our identity as supported by those whom we love (Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child). The concert closes with several pieces that challenge our sense of belonging by offering various ideals on how to live one’s life, re-envisioning “home” not as a place or a group of people, but rather “home” as a state of mind. From Paul Simon to Johannes Brahms, everyone will find something to love in this concert!

The Ensign Youth and Children’s Choirs join the adult chorus for a program highlighting music from Broadway and movie scores. Along with their serious works of choral and symphonic excellence with an uplifting message, the Ensign Symphony & Chorus will present a collection of their favorite songs that are sure to get stuck in your head.

***Mirinesse Women's Choir is committed to the health and safety of our singers and audiences. We have been closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and with recent updates and under guidance provided by King County Public Health, Washington State Department of Health, and the CDC, we have decided to postpone our concerts.***

Mirinesse Women’s Choir’s 2020 program, Richer for Her, will bring to our audiences a repertoire which expresses the breadth of human emotion: from sadness to ecstasy, from grief to hope, from intimate expressions to powerful collective statements. Through the voices of female poets ancient and contemporary in outstanding settings by American and Canadian composers, the singers of Mirinesse will tell the story of the complexity of being a woman in our world.

UPDATE: In light of the most recent guidelines from public health agencies, we have made the decision to postpone this weekend’s Shall Not Be Denied concerts to a later date to be determined. More information for ticket holders may be found at https://www.seattlepromusica.org/covid19.

Our spring concert features stirring and innovative choral music from a powerful roster of contemporary composers including Rosephanye Powell, Reena Esmail, Meredith Monk, and Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw.

Join us for a performance that honors those who fought for women’s right to vote, even as the struggle continues to ensure this right for all American women.

Opus 7 is one of Seattle’s most critically acclaimed choirs, known for performing at “the highest level of artistry” and “one of the most esteemed musical groups anywhere”(Seattle Times, Seattle P-I). Our traditional Lenten concert presents powerful choral music for the Lenten season, including works by Howells, Parry, Szymanowski, PIzzetti, Penderecki, Imogen Holst, Lennox Berkeley, and others. Loren Pontén conducts this annual concert for the penitential season of Lent.

Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.
Reserved Seating is available by advance donation.

Suggested donation is $40 in advance for Preferred Seating, $25 in advance, $30 at the door for General Seating, $20 in advance, $24 at the door for Seniors and students donate as able at the door with student ID.

Seattle Children’s Chorus has been profoundly privileged to represent our city at home and abroad for over 30 years as singing ambassadors. We have celebrated Seattle as a magnificent, flourishing city for the arts. This season, we are choosing to address a heartbreaking reality impacting a great number of youth in our city: homelessness. This problem of teens, youth and young adults making Seattle’s streets their only homes is growing at an alarming rate. We have a powerful story to tell through our music. We want our choristers, audiences and supporters to join us as we look at this population of vulnerable youth. With special guests, “The Pilgrims”, a men’s chorus dedicated to performances that benefit the plight of homeless youth, we will take an honest look at the problem and sing our hopes for a brighter future.

*** POSTPONED: Due to community health concerns we are postponing Collaboration until further notice. Please check back in on our website or here - we will update this event with a new date as soon as possible! ***

Join us for the final concert of our inaugural season; a collaboration of local groups performing local choral music.

If you are interested in being a part of this concert please reach out by emailing info@radiance.org

In March, Choral Arts NW continues our tradition of annual masterworks by offering the most sublime and sumptuous setting of late 19th century French style – Fauré’s magnificent Requiem. We pair this icon of beauty with a bevy of glorious guest artists, our brilliant chamber orchestra, and two modern masterworks – Kevin Siegfried’s Songs for the Journey, a modern tribute to Fauré’s masterful setting, and Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem, written in honor of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York city. Combined with the splendor of CANW voices, this concert promises the finest of choral music-making celebrating the abiding themes of human experience – love, loss, and renewal.

Thirty years ago, Margriet Tindemans founded the Medieval Women’s Choir on the premise that medieval music is as accessible as it is inspiring. She believed that any choral singer could learn to sing and to love this extraordinary repertoire and, through it, gain an appreciation and understanding of the culture that created it. Three decades on, Margriet’s choir, and her vision, continue to thrive. To celebrate our 30th season, we will revisit some of medieval repertoire most closely associated with the choir, as well as new pieces written for us over the years by Seattle composers Karen Thomas and Peter Seibert; by long-time MWC collaborator Shira Kammen; and by Margriet Tindemans herself.

(There will be a reception in the social hall after the concert to celebrate our 30th anniversary.)

***Mirinesse Women's Choir is committed to the health and safety of our singers and audiences. We have been closely monitoring the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, and with recent updates and under guidance provided by King County Public Health, Washington State Department of Health, and the CDC, we have decided to postpone our concerts.***

Mirinesse Women’s Choir’s 2020 program, Richer for Her, will bring to our audiences a repertoire which expresses the breadth of human emotion: from sadness to ecstasy, from grief to hope, from intimate expressions to powerful collective statements. Through the voices of female poets ancient and contemporary in outstanding settings by American and Canadian composers, the singers of Mirinesse will tell the story of the complexity of being a woman in our world.

Home can mean different things to different people: a place, a time, heaven, a loved person. Join MCE as we explore home, and journeys toward home, through folk songs, early American hymns, spirituals, madrigals and more. It will make your heart ache for home!

Biographers gasp in wonder at Schubert’s productivity during the final year of his life. He completed the “Symphony No. 9 in C Major” (“The Great”) as well as the “C Major String Quintet,” one of the greatest chamber works ever composed. He penned six songs that wound up in the song cycle “Schwanengesang” (“Swan Song”), the three “Piano Pieces” and the last three piano sonatas.

Finally, Schubert completed his greatest choral work, the “Mass No. 6 in E-flat Major” and two related shorter anthems, the “Tantum ergo in E-Flat” and the “Offertory in B Flat,” all of which will comprise our concert program on March 14. The “Mass No. 6 in E Flat,” not performed until a year after his death, was his most ambitious work, employing his own subjective romantic feelings, and the influence of Mozart, Beethoven and Bach.

Concert will feature:
“Mass No. 6 in E-Flat, D. 950”
“Tantum ergo in E-Flat, D. 962”
“Offertory in B-Flat, ‘Intende voci,’ D. 963”

With guest artists:
Members of the North Corner Chamber Orchestra
Jennifer Bromagen, soprano
Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano
Zach Finkelstein, tenor
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
Charles Robert Stephens, baritone

IN PORTLAND ON MARCH 14 (as scheduled)
https://cappellaromana.org/concert/tchaikovskys-divine-liturgy/

Benedict Sheehan (“rising star in Orthodox liturgical music”—Orthodox Arts Journal) returns to conduct a once-in-a-lifetime program featuring Cappella Romana with over 100 singers from the Pacific Youth Choir and basso profundo Glenn Miller. Tchaikovsky’s singular artistic voice in his Liturgy broke open the floodgates of creativity in Russian Orthodox choral music, including music for young singers. Grand and majestic sections of the Divine Liturgy beautifully contrast with its intimate moments of devotion and awe. Richly scored motets by Rachmaninoff, Chesnokov, and Sheehan himself amplify the legacy of Tchaikovsky’s monumental achievement.

Featuring the five choirs of Olympia Youth Chorus, this program will include favorite pieces our singers have loved performing over the last 25 years. We will also highlight our student soloists competing at the State level. This is an afternoon program suitable for all ages!
Director Sponsor: Edward Jones, Bill Peden, CFP Financial Advisor

Cipriano de Rore was a titan of the mid-16th century and one of the most influential composers of his time, with one foot in his native Flanders and one in his adopted homeland Italy. His music was progressive and experimental, epitomizing the changing forms of the sacred polyphonic motet & secular Italian madrigal, which he seamlessly interchanged. Rore’s works were widely considered to be the most expressive and eloquent of his day. Join us as we delve into his remarkable music from the Magnificent Choirbook of Albrecht V and the realm of infinite beauty it inspired. We also offer works on similar texts by composers Josquin, Palestrina, Byrd and others.
- Preconcert lecture at 2:15pm, with Anne Lyman and Pat Rice, for a discussion of music manuscripts and artistry, including a visual presentation.

Love and hope can’t be constrained behind closed borders but sometimes they need a helping hand. Dramatic and inspiring stories of escape are joined by pop sounds of LGBTQ artists from across the globe including Freddie Mercury, Ricky Martin and k.d. lang.

Featuring a world premiere commission inspired by the lives of LGBTQ Muslims who settled in North America after years of seeking asylum. With music from Caldwell and Ivory, Hannah Fidler, Amir Rabiya, Mari Esabel Valverde, and Bonnie McKee, songwriter for pop music’s biggest stars.

Our youngest two choirs will delight you with songs that tell great stories, or that come from great stories, including Newfoundland folk ballads, a medley of classic Disney tunes, folktales from storyteller Naomi Baltuck, and choral highlights from the musical, Into the Woods.

Featuring Prep Choir and Fresca.

*** POSTPONED: Due to community health concerns surrounding COVID-19 we have postponed Our Lady until further notice. Please sign up for our email list or follow us on FB! We will update this event with a new time as soon as possible. ***

This program features Renaissance and contemporary motets dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Music by Renaissance composers Josquin, Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Palestrina are juxtaposed with music by contemporary composers Arvo Pärt and Gabriel Jackson. The centerpiece of the program are two settings of the Salve regina: the first by Renaissance English composer William Cornysh, and Gabriel Jackson's setting, based on Cornysh's setting.

Gene Stenger, Evangelist
José Rubio, Jesus
Arwen Myers, soprano
Laura Beckel Thoreson, mezzo-soprano
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
Zachary Lenox, baritone

The music of J.S. Bach has been at the core of OSSCS’s repertoire since its inception 50 years ago. Now hear a new generation interpret this supreme masterpiece.

This special concert features a collaboration with a local musicians, Squirrel Butter, an Old Time Variety Duet. This will be a don't-miss occasion! You'll hear fine choral music as well as creative collaboration with the duo. Venue is ADA accessible and has ample on-site parking.

Our advanced choirs will tell stories through song, with selections from fairy tales and folklore, books and opera, and songs that underscore the importance of each person’s story. You’ll hear Douglas Wagner’s ode to beloved children’s books “Stories of My Life,” Elizabeth Alexander’s “Let it Matter,” a call to let in other people’s stories and build relationships, Caldwell & Ivory’s “If Wishes Had Wings” about Hiroshima paper crane folder and peacemaker Sadako Sasaki, and one of the orchestra-to-vocal arrangements from Margaret Dryburgh’s prisoner-of-war choir.

Featuring Amabile, Vivace, Amore and Ensemble.

Bellevue Youth Choirs presents our Spring MainStage Concert: WATER, continuing our 2019-20 series celebrating the elements.

For all living creatures on the earth, water is our lifeblood. For humans, water can be a metaphor for both the turbulence and calm we experience throughout our lives as well. In our March 22nd concert we explore how water is used in different aspects of life, from sailing upon the sea, to water found in nature, to the living water in the Christian tradition. Join our seven choirs as they present music celebrating every way that water affects our lives here on Earth.

Featuring the Prelude, Prima, Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, and Premier Choirs.

In the Northwest, we enjoy gazing into the incredible spaces around us. Whether on the edge of a bluff looking out over the Sound, on a ferry looking toward the city, on a bridge, a Space Needle or a beach, we have dramatic and beautiful vistas all around us. As we look toward the horizon, our thoughts are free to wander. The open spaces we'll sing about in this program might be real or imagined, topographical or psychological. Join us as we journey together with The Bike Let Loose, by Edie Hill and Light of a Clear Blue Morning, written by Dolly Parton (Yep, Dolly Parton), with an evocative arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson. Featured composers also include William Hawley, Frederick Delius, Stephen Paulus, Jake Runestad, Part Uusberg, Renaissance master Palestrina plus others.

Songs from the winter saints: St Andrew, St David, St Valentine and St Patrick. And a singalong,

Suspend any doubts you may have about classical choral “crossover”: Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass is tremendously powerful music, doing justice to both its parental musical styles. Incorporating bluegrass instruments, Barnett adapts the ancient Mass text for a modern sensibility, dealing with issues of social conscience and building community.

As Barnett blends two musical worlds, so do the composers featured in the first half of the concert. Harry Burleigh and William Dawson were among the pioneers who transferred African-American spirituals into a choral guise, a tradition later carried by Moses Hogan. Kevin Siegfried dresses nineteenth-century American Shaker tunes in sumptuous modern harmonies. Writing in the mid-twentieth century, Frenchman Maurice Duruflé went back even further for inspiration: to medieval chant.

A concert that follows the history, people, and events unique to Everett from the foundations of flight and a life by the water, to famous figures, to current loves and landmarks. We will feature local artisans at the performance hall, local musicians such as Jason Webley, the Filipino Choir of St Mary Magdalen and the Tulalip Tripes on stage with the Chorale, and a rich partnership with the Everett Museum of History.

Get your groove on with some hip vocal jazz presented by The Offbeats and our friends, The Blue Street Voices! We’ll be performing jazz standards, contemporary jazz, and popular favorites for an evening guaranteed to get your toes tapping. The Offbeats, directed by Kelley Johnson and The Blue Street Voices directed by Dave Cross are two 16-20 member ensembles performing high-caliber jazz backed by a talented rhythm section led by acclaimed pianists, Karin Kajita and John Hansen.

January 27, 2020, marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Diverse settings of Psalm 137, “By the waters of Babylon...,” by Bach, Schein, Sweelinck, Rossi, and others, introduce the West Coast premiere of Austrian composer—and Auschwitz victim—Marcel Tyberg’s Mass in F major.

Featuring Song of Seattle, Sound Harmony and local quartets for an exciting evening of barbershop harmony!

A performance of Spring repertoire of these 2 choirs ages ranging from 5th to 8th grade. Directed by Alex Gagiu & Sarra Sharif

"In 1984 I was very fortunate to visit Uganda, where a dream maker made me a beautiful drum with a snakeskin head. I'll never forget sitting in the place to come home and seeing by chance the baggage handlers loading my drum with incredible respect and care. The drum to them is a living spirit.

The poems I set are a celebration of how that spirit is brought to life. The piece enacts the ritual of constructing the drum, whose component parts are drawn from the surrounding nature - a nature that gives of itself almost sacrificially. We hear how the goat is killed for its skin, how the tree, which bleeds cedar-dark when cut, bestows the drum's body, and how the sticks and rattles are taken, all to begin a new life as companions to the gods, music and the dance." Bob Chilcott

In the Northwest, we enjoy gazing into the incredible spaces around us. Whether on the edge of a bluff looking out over the Sound, on a ferry looking toward the city, on a bridge, a Space Needle or a beach, we have dramatic and beautiful vistas all around us. As we look toward the horizon, our thoughts are free to wander. The open spaces we'll sing about in this program might be real or imagined, topographical or psychological. Join us as we journey together with The Bike Let Loose, by Edie Hill and Light of a Clear Blue Morning, written by Dolly Parton (Yep, Dolly Parton), with an evocative arrangement by Craig Hella Johnson. Featured composers also include William Hawley, Frederick Delius, Stephen Paulus, Jake Runestad, Part Uusberg, Renaissance master Palestrina plus others.

The Esoterics' 2020 season, HINDSIGHT, begins with the North American premiere of AS PALMEIRAS (the palm trees), a 37-movement work setting texts from 33 countries around the world, in 24 languages, composed by our own founder and artistic director, Eric Banks. The work’s texts – poems, adages, proverbs, and articles – are all about the palm tree and its fruit, and are presented as if the listener is traveling around the world, starting in California and going east to end in Tahiti.

This program will take you on a journey through the roots of American music with mountain folk songs, gospel, blues, pop, and ragtime. This is profoundly familiar and energetic music. These songs evoke memories and speak to the evolution of American music.

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KCS and Philharmonia Northwest join forces at Benaroya Hall to celebrate Beethoven's 250th anniversary year, featuring the glorious Mass in C, and the triumphant Choral Fantasy with renowned pianist Craig Sheppard. Also featuring the Seattle premiere of Jake Runestad's stunning Beethoven tribute "A Silence Haunts Me."

Selections from Aaron Copland's Old American Songs form the backbone of this concert celebrating musical Americana. Local composers Morten Lauridsen, and Tim Drewes sit alongside historical greats William Dawson, William Billings and Leonard Bernstein. Also featured will be At the Water's Edge, a cycle by Kevin Siegfried on texts by Sarah Orne Jewett. Baritone Andrew Krikawa of Vashon Opera fame will be the featured soloist. Pre-concert lectures by Dr. Gary D. Cannon 30 minutes prior to both concerts.

Directors' Cut. All the past directors of the Magnolia Chorale have chosen a favorite piece, creating a rich tapestry of joyful music. We will celebrate 30 years together. Postponed - we hope to celebrate in November

From Earth to the far reaches of the universe, let the Ensign Symphony illuminate the darkness with fun and exhilarating and music. Inspired by a talk given by Latter-day Saint apostle and former fighter pilot, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, you will be leaving the concert with a heroic torch of inspiration.

Director's Cut! We will present the favorite pieces of each and every past director of the Magnolia Chorale. Former singers especially welcome. We hope to celebrate in November.

The variety you loved on our first American Journey last spring just scratched the surface of American music, but was enough to whet our appetite for more! We’re going back on the road to sample yet more styles, including Broadway, vocal jazz, spirituals, and good old a cappella. Join us to continue our tour of places and genres in our nation’s inexhaustible musical melting pot.

This year, Joyful! Noise will sing our 10th spring concert. We’ll be reprising songs from our spring concerts, songs like the rousing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat,” a fun musical trip down "Route 66,” a gorgeous gospel version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and many more. It will be a musical stroll down memory lane. Come join us as we remember our journey and make new memories with these incredible songs.

KECHLEY, Psalm 100
BOULANGER, Psaume XXIV
WHITE, Psalm 46, Op. 14 [West Coast premiere]
RAVEL, Daphnis et Chloé

We close our 50th season in grand style at Benaroya Hall with jubilant psalm settings by Robert Kechley, Lili Boulanger and OSSCS music director William White. The grand finale is a rare performance of the complete score of Maurice Ravel’s dazzling “symphonie choréographique,” Daphnis et Chloé.

Northwest Repertory Singers concludes a season of CONTRASTS May 2–3 with works from the Classical era by Beethoven (Elegischer Gesang) and Haydn (Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, featuring strings and organ) juxtaposed with world music influences from St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass by Glenn McClure (featuring steel drum). NWRS is delighted to be joined by the White River High School Chamber Choir, Robin Howard, director, who will perform separately and combine with NWRS to form an intergenerational massed choir with modern works by Jake Runestad and André Thomas.

Kulshan Chorus, Cantabile Chamber Choir, Kulshan Youth Choir, Sno-King Community Chorale, and orchestra join forces under the artistic direction of Dustin Willets to perform Carl Orff’s masterpiece cantata, Carmina Burana. Orff selected twenty-four poems from the medieval collection, Carmina Burana, covering a variety of familiar topics: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust. Together these poems and music describe activities along the great “wheel of life” or “wheel of fortune.” As the wheel spins, we may be uplifted in the world. But just as easily, the wheel of life may crush us. The moral is that no one of us is greater than any other, no matter their status. We should treat one another as equals, each struggling for purpose and meaning in the great wheel that is life. We belong to each other.

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Inspired by the iconic All-Night Vigil (“Vespers”) by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Robert Kyr’s new setting in English of the All-Night Vigil will encourage you to meditate directly on the Vigil’s themes of light, renewal, and hope. Cappella Romana, in large-choir formation, will sing Kyr’s characteristic soaring lines and gorgeous harmonies in different combinations in and around the audience. More than just a concert, this world premiere performance of Kyr’s All-Night Vigil will create an immersive, ineffable experience unlike any other.

This year, Joyful! Noise will sing our 10th spring concert. We’ll be reprising songs from our spring concerts, songs like the rousing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat,” a fun musical trip down "Route 66,” a gorgeous gospel version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and many more. It will be a musical stroll down memory lane. Come join us as we remember our journey and make new memories with these incredible songs.

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Come celebrate spring with the Swedish Singers of Seattle. Only the Nordics welcome spring with bonfires, song, and drink! Join us; wear your student hats!

Pre-Concert Lecture 7:00 pm; 8:00 pm Concert

Please join Opus 7 as we celebrate the musical contributions of some of our region’s most prominent choral composers. This popular bi-annual event features choral works by Northwest composers, including Bern Herbolsheimer, Reginald Unterseher, Morten Lauridsen, Peter Hallock, Sean MacLean, and Opus 7’s Composer-in-Residence John Muehleisen. Opus 7 will also perform the winning compositions from this season’s Robert Scandrett Memorial Student Composer Competition.

Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.

Preferred Seating: $40 in advance
General Seating: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Seniors: $20 in advance, $24 at the door
Students: Pay as able at the door with student ID

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Please join us for a performance of this beloved masterpiece of J. S. Bach. Directed by Lynn Hall.

Admission is complimentary and a free will offering will be taken to benefit Northwest Harvest.

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8th Annual Spectrum Choral Academy Spring Concert
Featuring all choristers, ages 5-20, performing together! Featuring each choir level individually and combined, with select Ensemble soloists. Our 2020 Spring Concert will be a musical celebration of our families, love and the many seasons of life.

Sunday, May 17, 2020, 3:00 PM
Chapel Hill Presbyterian Church, Gig Harbor, WA
Tickets: $10 (available online or at the door)

Spectrum Choral Academy is a community chorus program with three levels for passionate youth musicians, ages 5-20. Rehearsals are held weekly in Gig Harbor, with singers coming from throughout the region. We are currently accepting new singers for summer choir camp & fall enrollment.

www.spectrumchorus.com 360.271.8086

We conclude our 27th season with an epic journey through the American songbook, featuring traditional and new hymnody and rousing spirituals. We welcome our 2019 Poet in Residence, Michael Dennis Browne, as we explore both text and sonority through readings of his poetry between our musical offerings. This ‘bright ring of words’ concludes with a world premiere collaboration between composer Kevin Siegfried and poet Michael Dennis Browne sung with joy and gusto by the inimitable Choral Arts Northwest.

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.

Please join us for a performance of this beloved masterpiece of J. S. Bach. Directed by Lynn Hall.

Admission is complimentary and a free will offering will be taken to benefit Northwest Harvest.

Johannes Brahms’ towering masterpiece has been called a human requiem, a requiem for the living, not the dead. It runs the gamut of emotions: sorrow, comfort, hope, triumph, and finally, peace. Don’t miss Master Chorus Eastside and festival orchestra in one of the truly great works of all time.

We present a concert on the theme of empowerment, which special guest, Seattle blues artist Chic Street Man, and an appearance by The Sound Singers Japanese Choir.

This spring, ChoralSounds Northwest will take the audience on a musical journey from 1920 to today, as we highlight the hits of popular genres in American music. Join us as we celebrate 100 years of favorite tunes, including Tin Pan Alley, the stages of Broadway, the songs that defined the changing decades in the mid-century, and the cultural anthems at the turn of the century, culminating in the recent years of recognizable chart-toppers. Hindsight is 2020 promises to be an exciting narrative of our identity and evolution as we look back on 100 years of favorite music!

POSTPONED TO 2021. Famous and acclaimed poets from seven countries are featured in this cultural celebration exploring the quintessential relationship between words and music in the choral artform. James Bassi’s Harpsonnets (Four Shakespeare Sonnets for Chorus and Harp) are a rare gem in an eclectic program that takes us from Chile to Canada, and from the U.S. to India. You won't want to miss this exotic collection of texts by some of history’s greatest wordsmiths!

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British composer Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D for choir, orchestra, and soloists is a monumental achievement. Written in the mid-19th century, it was dismissed by critics who deemed female composers unequal to their male counterparts. Seattle Pro Musica hails this stunning and seldom-heard piece as more than equal.

We pair this groundbreaking work with Mozart’s beloved “Great” Mass in C minor for one performance only in the magnificent acoustic of St. James Cathedral.

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!

Words capture love and romance so very well. But what of music, that “language of the emotions” that doesn’t rely on words to convey? Join the members of Ancora for the finale to their Sweet 16 Anniversary season as they present Spring Romances. Delight in a program of classic romantic choral songs by Brahms, Dvořák, and Schumann, whose music was infused with passion, strength, longing, and tenderness. Perfect for a spring day!

Lovesong Waltzes, Op. 52 – by Johannes Brahms (arranged for women’s voices)
Six Romances, Op. 69 – by Robert Schumann
Moravian Duets, Op. 32 - by Antonin Dvořák

And love songs by Morten Lauridsen, Rosephanye Powell, and Joan Szymko.

Come join us for the final concert of our incredible 25th Anniversary Season! We will feature all five choirs of Olympia Youth Chorus singing popular favorites from Disney, Broadway and Pop genres. Suitable for all ages! Children three and under are free.
Seating is unreserved.