The Northwest Boychoir proudly presents its 39th annual 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 has become a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consi

Northwest Boychoir presents A FESTIVAL OF LESSONS & CAROLS: A Northwest Holiday Tradition – December 9-22, 2017 at multiple area locations. These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.

It’s not the holidays in Seattle without the most welcoming celebration of the season - and this year, we’ve infused your favorite carols and beloved classics with the warmth of brass and a pinch of sass! Featuring a soaring gospel arrangement of “Joy to the World,” the cheeky and cheerful “A Super Gay Christmas,” plus a down and dirty Dixie styling of “Let It Snow.”

Snohomish County's premier women's choir Sonus Boreal presents Twas the Night Before Christmas. A Christmas concert with beautiful holiday music, refreshments, a silent auction, and a painting raffle.

Music director and founder Alexander Lingas leads Cappella Romana in a program of early and contemporary music from the Greek Orthodox tradition for the 12 Days of Christmas. Originally performed in the Twelfth Night Festival at Trinity Church Wall Street, New York.

Join us for a wonderful evening of music with drinks and light appetizers as we perform pieces from our new album, some old favorites, and brand new pieces for our upcoming tour!

The Mägi Ensemble has released our second album "Musica Baltica" and is gearing up to go on tour to perform this collection across the Baltic states this upcoming summer. This CD includes songs from all three countries - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia - ranging from folk songs to classical to pop.

Seattle women’s choir Ancora, directed by Interim Artistic Director Freddie Coleman, accompanied by Justin Hansen, and joined by guest artists Resonance Handbell Quartet, unveils “Sacred Night,” a seasonal winter program featuring a Gregorian-inspired “Magnificat” and “Nunc Dimittis” by Frank La Rocca, the Bach-inspired “Mass No. 6” by Romanian-born Hungarian György Orbán, and the mystical “Northern Lights” written for treble voices, handbells, and tuned glasses by Latvian Ēriks Ešenvalds.

Elgar Sospiri, Op. 70
Bax November Woods
OSSCS Concerto Competition Winner
Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits

Following his Cappella Romana début leading the men of Cappella Romana in chants from Santiago de Compostela, Marcel Pérès from Paris directs the earliest known Mass setting by a single composer, Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377).

There is no shortage ​of masterpieces about death and the afterlife. ​From the Spanish Renaissance with Juan Esquivel, to the early 20th century with English master Herbert Howells, to the contemporary era with local composer Peter Hallock, this program showcases the most hauntingly beautiful motets of the ages.

DĒLECTŌ will feature three works, including two world-premiere commissions.

Love, a short work by Rodney Sharman setting a verse by 17-century poet George Sandys.

This is how you love, a commission from Timothy Takach and Jocelyn Hagen, setting poems and excerpted transcripts from couples counseling.

The river of love, Eric Banks' commission - a wedding gift from Robert Alexander to his wife Ali - setting couplets by the 14th-century Sufi poet Amir Khusro.

Let Justice Roll Down — A Multi-Media Musical Journey to Selma and Back features Duo-Organists Wanda Griffiths & Stephen Marshall-Ward with reSound, a Northwest Chamber Ensemble, Dave Beck, cello, Kyle Erickson, trumpet, Ian Alvarez, percussion, and Plymouth Youth Forum Members.

This event will feature an exciting world-premiere of "Kyrie," a new 20-minute work by Stephen Marshall-Ward and Michael Austin Miller, featuring selected texts from the Plymouth Youth Forum members.

Please join Seattle Pro Musica for our annual appearance as part of the St. John's Concert Series in Olympia.

Join Kirkland Choral Society for a festive evening of wine, chocolate, and love songs from a variety of styles; hear works by Brahms, Bizet, Bernstein, and the Beatles, for solo voice, small ensemble, and 100-voice choir.

Brahms tapped into a lucrative vein when composing a set of Liebeslieder Waltzer (“Lovesong Waltzes”) in 1868. They were so popular that Brahms’s publisher requested a second set. These audience favorites have since been adopted by choruses worldwide, but the Emerald Ensemble will present them as originally intended, for four solo voices and piano four-hands. Our four soloists will also sing a bouquet of art-songs on the subject of love. This is a Valentine’s Day event to cherish forever.

Opus 7 presents an inventive and powerful concert of choral music for the Lenten season, which includes Benjamin Britten’s great masterpiece, Cantata Misericordium for choir; soloists Eric Neuville, tenor and Charles Robert Stephens, baritone; harp; percussion; piano; and string orchestra. Also featured are settings of the “O vos omnes” text, alternating with works by Rheinberger, Parry, Barber, Casals, and Elgar.

Featured Works include:
-Missa Brevis (Short Mass) by American choral composer, Mark Templeton (b 1974)
Movements: Kyrie, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Psalm 23, A Prayer of St. Benedict, The Chorister's Prayer
-Missa 'Cantate' by British composer/arranger, Bob Chilcotte (b 1955)
Movements: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei
-Alleluia by American composer, Eric Whitacre (b 1970).

Knight Sounds directed by Wendy McPhetres is our guest choir with us on Sunday in Bremerton.

Seattle’s Tudor Choir appears for the first time since 2015, directed by founder Doug Fullington. The Western Wind Mass by John Taverner is featured alongside a world premiere of a work based on it by rising star composer Nico Muhly.

Cappella Romana presents THE TUDOR CHOIR

Vivaldi's "Magnificat," Charptentier's "Te Deum," Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude," Handel's "Zadok, The Priest," plus a few shorter pieces to round out the program.

Join the Seattle Bach Choir for a performance Bach's epic Mass in B Minor, complete with baroque orchestra accompaniment. It's the Seattle Bach Choir doing what we do best (singing lots of Bach), and it promises to be quite the occasion!

Concert begins at 3:00, tickets will be available online and at the door.

Thalia Symphony Orchestra joins Choir of the Sound for an uplifting exploration of various Psalm settings, featuring Bernstein's Chichester Psalms and Vaughn Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.

Featuring composers from Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann to Eric William Barnum, Joan Szymko and Kim André Arnesen, this Mirinesse concert program praises music and the ways in which music connects us as a community, soothes us in our sorrow, inspires us to act, and transports us to a higher plain.

Once a year, the Seattle Children’s Chorus carves out a delightful concert opportunity for the youngest musicians in our program. In this particular performance, Poco a Poco, Brio, and Intermezzo will take the stage to share playful, imaginative and reflective songs about water. Children seem to be made for water fun: wading and splashing through puddles, long tub times, umbrellas and rain showers, making bubbles in sinks, summer fun with sprinklers, and the list could go on. Children’s choral

Our Youth Choirs, Arioso, Camerata, and Coro Vivo will bring to our audience a stunning and beautiful collection of American Choral pieces that use the image of water as a central theme. This concert will consist of folk music pieces, such as “Shenandoah” that celebrate great North American rivers. Also included will be songs of the sea and play songs like “Bring Me Little Water, Sylvie.” We will feature gospel pieces, spirituals, and new compositions by American composers. As we are drawn to

Tacoma Refugee Choir invites you to join in its second ever Community Sing-Along. This high-energy interactive concert features performances by Tacoma Refugee Choir in collaboration with celebrated local artists, including Wanz, Caleb Jermaine and Stephanie Anne Johnson. Come prepared to sing along to old favorites, discover new ones and join in a community-wide musical celebration of solidarity and hope.

Please visit www.refugeechoir.org or communitysingalong.com for more information.

This spring, CANW reprises this concert-length oratorio in a revised version for choir with vocal soloists and chamber orchestra composed by CANW’s 2016-17 Composer-in-Residence, John Muehleisen.

A Kipling Passion commemorates the centennial of World War I in a historical account of Lieutenant John Kipling’s 1918 death, and its impact on his famous parents, Rudyard and Carrie Kipling. Muehleisen uses the passion form to explore how we might find healing in the face of unspeakable tragedy.

Join Concord Chamber Choir, Cantabile Vocal Ensemble, and Bel Canto Children's Choir in an afternoon concert celebrating classic choral compositions from throughout history. Experience the music of J.S. Bach, Brahms, Byrd, di Lasso, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Victoria, and a few modern era composers, as the voices of the Columbia Choirs singers ring in the acoustically-rich Bellevue First Congregational Church.

Shakespeare’s famous observation from The Tempest provides the backdrop for this imaginative musical exploration of dreams and visions and things fantastickal; featuring Eric Whitacre’s Sleep and Ola Gjeilo’s stunning Dark Night of the Soul.

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Featuring composers from Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann to Eric William Barnum, Joan Szymko and Kim André Arnesen, this Mirinesse concert program praises music and the ways in which music connects us as a community, soothes us in our sorrow, inspires us to act, and transports us to a higher plain.

Today, it is hard to imagine how life in ages past was governed by weather and the seasons. Any Seattlite who has ever braved the lingering chill in a warm coat in can understand the exuberance with which medieval Europeans looked forward to the balmy afternoons, the symphony of birdsong, the explosion of flowers, and the stirrings of young love. All these things were extolled in song, and we invite you to join the choir in casting off the gloom of winter through a celebration of spring.

Join us for a celebration of the literal and figurative waters running through our lives: captivating settings of Psalm 42:1 (As the deer longs for water) by Palestrina and Mendelssohn, the hypnotic currents of Samuel Barber’s To Be Sung on the Water and Gwyneth Walker’s Deep River, rollicking waves of Aaron Copland’s The Boatmen’s Song, tango-inspired Noche de Lluvia (Night of Rain) by Sid Robinovitch, Alice Parker’s Take Me to the Water and many others!

Rev. Dr. Ivan Moody, British composer, conductor, and Orthodox priest, returns to direct his largest composition, a setting of the 6th-century Kontakion to the Mother of God. The Akáthistos Hymn blends medieval Byzantine chant with richly-textured Russian style choruses in this stunning vocal work, composed expressly for Cappella Romana. In English with the traditional Greek refrains.

A special presentation by our emerging choral artists, they’ll dance into your hearts with folk songs, circle dances, and singing games that get you out of your seat and moving to the beat!
 
Featuring: Prep Choir, Fresca, Amabile

Motets based on chant. Chant has been the cornerstone of Western music since the 9th century. It has provided an evolutionary foundation from the Gregorian era to the Renaissance, Baroque, and even contemporary music. While some composers like Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis's Loquebantur variis linguis use chant literally to construct their music, others have used chant as an inspiration, like in American composer Eric Whitacre's Sainte-Chapelle.

Dance and song have always gone together—in some cultures, they are inseparable! Join Northwest Girlchoir’s advanced choirs as we perform a variety of music with dance as inspiration, from international folk songs and settings of poems by Shakespeare and Carroll to singer-songwriter favorites.

Featuring: Vivace, Amore, Ensemble

Join the Sno-King Community Chorale on March 17, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lynnood as we present Mozart's Krönungsmesse (German for Coronation Mass) (Mass No. 15 in C major, K. 317; sometimes Mass No. 16). Composed in 1779, the mass is one of the most popular of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 17 extant settings of the Ordinary of the Mass.
Featured soloists will be Jennifer Bromagen (Soprano), Jacob William Herbert (Baritone), Sarah Mattox (Alto), and Stephen Rumph (Tenor).

Welcome to “Once Upon a Time,” a concert featuring our most advanced girl and boy choristers from our Training, Concert, and Premier Choirs. "Once Upon a Time" exhibits songs about all sorts of tales, stories and lullabies from around the world. This concert also introduces a special first for BYC - the World Premiere performance of “Dreams Upon a Brow," a newly commissioned choral composition by our Artist-in-Residence, Dr. Andrew Seifert, with text by BYC parent and poet, Tulika Dugar.

Welcome to Once Upon a Time, a concert featuring our youngest girl and boy choristers from Prelude, Primary, and Intermediate Choirs singing all sorts of tales, stories, and lullabies from around the world. This concert and family folkdance is always an audience favorite. We start with a delightful formal concert and give you the opportunity to join us in sing-alongs. Then be prepared to kick up your heels and join the choristers in folk dancing led by Caller Amy and her fantastic string band.

Every life includes periods of passion and pathos, growth and stagnation. In this concert, we sing about woes of our world, and then sing to reclaim our joy during the week of the Spring equinox. Featured composers include Claudio Monteverdi, Pablo Casals, Alberto Ginastera, Heinrich Schütz, and contemporary Americans Charles Anthony Silvestri, Brandon Hurley, Daniel Elder and J. Aaron McDermid.

As the stark outlines of winter give way to spring’s rebirth, enjoy an afternoon of rich melody and reflection. Whatcom Chorale presents Frostiana, Randall Thompson’s insightful settings of timeless poetry by Robert Frost, plus selections from Joseph Haydn’s compelling oratorio, Die Jahreszeiten: Winter, and Pietro Mascagni’s Anthem for Spring.

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Featuring composers from Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann to Eric William Barnum, Joan Szymko and Kim André Arnesen, this Mirinesse concert program praises music and the ways in which music connects us as a community, soothes us in our sorrow, inspires us to act, and transports us to a higher plain.

All Present is a song circle for people with memory loss and their supporters. The OK Chorale, a community choir, teams up with them for a joint concert and audience singalong of Irish songs.

Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 pm presented by Prof. Guntis Smidchens, Chair of Baltic Studies at U of W.

A concert to commemorate one hundred years since the Declaration of Independence of the three Baltic states—home of the “Singing Revolution.” Hear the finest contemporary choral music today from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

Participating choirs to include:
Seattle Choral Company, Magi Baltic Ensemble, Redmond Chorale, Ancora, Illumni Men's Chorale, Seattle Girl's Choir, & Columbia Choirs.

Now in its sixth year, the French Fest at Seattle Center is a part of the Seattle Center’s FESTÁL cultural event series and attracts 5,000 visitors. Drop by the Alliance Française booth to say BONJOUR and stay to hear our choir perform from 1:15-1:45pm.
The event is free and open to the public.

In his day, Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) was highly respected as a composer and pianist. He has the distinction of being the only full time music student of Mozart. Most remembered for his piano compositions, his sacred music is also well regarded. This is the first of five orchestral Masses composed by Hummel during his time at the Esterhazy court, and continues the tradition of the masses of Mozart and Haydn. Join us for this marvelous work, plus selections by other master composers.

New developments in musical notation in the early 14th century allowed composers to write music they never could write before. They wasted no time in embracing the complexity and variety that was suddenly available to them, literally referring to their music as an ars nova, or "new art.” Composers in France and Italy were most active in promoting this musical avant-garde, yet their works are strikingly different in style: In Italy, exuberant melodies and virtuosic display were highly prized.

The Phinney Neighborhood Chorus invites you to a sharing of song and poetry in remembrance of those loved and lost. After the program we will share tea, cookies and memories. If you would like to recommend or contribute a song or poem for the program please contact Maggie at phinneysings@gmail.com

Every life includes periods of passion and pathos, growth and stagnation. In this concert, we sing about woes of our world, and then sing to reclaim our joy during the week of the Spring equinox. Featured composers include Claudio Monteverdi, Pablo Casals, Alberto Ginastera, Heinrich Schütz, and contemporary Americans Charles Anthony Silvestri, Brandon Hurley, Daniel Elder and J. Aaron McDermid.

To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, Sine Nomine will perform some of its members' favorite pieces. Every song is a Renaissance gem: from Binchois to Byrd, 15th to 17th centuries, from England, Italy, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France. We feature Gombert's 'Lugebat David Absalon', Byrd's 'Tribue Domine', and offer more by Byrd, Binchois, Encina, Gesualdo, Guerrero, Josquin, Palestrina, Praetorius and Tallis. See www for program details. Preconcert lecture by Gary Cannon at 4pm.

Featuring the music of all five choirs in Olympia Youth Chorus, Dolce, Bel Canto, Coro Voce, Forza and Cantabile.
Tickets are available at the Washington Center Box Office, 360-753-8586, or washingtoncenter.org

The Chamber Chorale from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas celebrates over 30 years of concert tours this year with performances and singing exchanges in the Pacific Northwest, March 22-27, 2018. The 21-voice advanced ensemble performs an exciting program of a cappella and accompanied repertoire by J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, William Billings, Johannes Brahms, Samuel Barber, Stephen Chatman, Elizabeth Alexander, Joan Szymko, and Ivo Antognini.

KCS and Philharmonia Northwest present Verdi's monumental Requiem at Benaroya Hall, with soloists Kim Giordano, Melissa Plagemann, Tim Janecke, and Clayton Brainerd; Dr. Glenn R. Gregg, conducting.

In this last minute addition to our 2017-2018 season, ChoralSounds Northwest And VocalSounds Northwest are honored to host renowned vocal ensemble Stanford University Chamber Chorale, conducted by Dr. Stephen M. Sano. Stay tuned for more details. We greatly look forward to collaborating with this incredible vocal group for this special event!

Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 Mvts. II and III
Kamran Ince: Gloria (Everywhere)
Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

The Finnish Composer Oskar Merikanto's (1868 - 1924), style reminds of Finnish folk songs. He had a unique ability to compose vividly emotional music and has become one of the most beloved Finnish composers. Program: Choir, conducted by Heather MacLaughlin-Garbes, solo singing by soprano Maria Männistö acc. Aaron Otheim, the Evergreen Kantele, Kalevala Trio and Katrilli folkdancers. Guest speaker Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara of UW Finnish Studies.
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We are happy to premiere music by local composers selected from our recent call for compositions. The music on the program bears a relationship to early music either in construction, sound, or theme. A CD recording of the program will be for sale at the concert.

Featuring special guest, Randy Rainbow

Standing up and singing out! The combined forces of SWC and SMC's voices share the stage for a special unity concert that confronts the rising tide of intolerance in our country. Featuring a tour de force musical theatre piece from the creators of Ragtime about the history of civil rights in America, Not In Our Town is filled with inspiring stories of equality, songs of celebration, and a Whitney Houston dance party to bring down McCaw Hall.

It is said that music began with movement. This concert explores the various ways in which dance has been embraced by choral music. Brahms’ Liebeslieder, or “Love-Song,” waltzes are perennial favorites. Dance was all the rage during Bach’s time, and the most dancelike of his motets is surely Der Geist hilft. Tangos of Piazzolla have also been arranged for chorus. For a bit of Americana, we’ll round it all out with Copland’s country-dance Stomp your foot and Ives’s Circus Band.

The first half of the program will be a commemoration of the Civil Rights Movement, and of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a special collage of spirituals and Dr. King's writings/speeches. The second half of the program, will be enlivened with songs of the late 1960s. We hope the audience be moved by the more serious part of our commemorative concert, and will love hearing some of the songs of the era as well.... protest songs and popular songs of the the era.

The choir will be singing John Rutter's "Requiem" which they will also be performing at Carnegie Hall in 2018. This will be Artistic Director Lee Mathews last season. Come out and support him as the choir performs favorites that they have sung with him these past 25 years.

CONFIDO will present three secular masses and an additional piece:

Missa Charles Darwin, setting excerpts from Darwin's works alongside classic Latin mass texts, by Greg Brown

Missa Tiburtina and Petite messe solitaire, by British composer Giles Swayne

Island in space, an setting of dona nobis pacem alongside an astronaut's description of the earth, by Kirke Mechem

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The Seattle Ladies Choir is made up of over 60 self-identified women with varying musical experience, from shower singers to professional musicians. Members vote each season on a repertoire of contemporary music in a wide range including rock, folk, and pop. Hear them sing in perfect harmony at the Season 14 Concerts, including choral versions of songs by Tina Turner, Andra Day, George Michael and more!

This season, SilverSounds Northwest celebrates the concept of time, including favorites like Monday, Monday, Nine to Five, and As Time Goes By. This fun-filled, theatrical show always promises the audience the time of their lives, proving you are never too old to rock and roll!

An eclectic assortment of songs related to various forms of physical travel, discovery of new lands, and reflecting our emotional and spiritual journeys. Brumfield's ethereal "No Time," Gilbert and Sullivan's "Gondoliers", Hella Johnson's "Requiem," the King's Singers' "I'm a Train". Stephen Foster's "Hard Times Come Again No More", and combined finales from "Moana".

Journey with the Chorale from Darkness to Light on April 21 & 22, a program reflecting the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth as winter ends, followed by spring’s renewal of light and life. We excited to announce that the featured work will be the West coast premiere of James Kevin Gray’s Jazz Mass.

The Sno-King Community Chorale presents a special benefit performance featuring Sara Gazarek and Josh Nelson. Josh and Sara have collaborated on several compositions together. Their recordings have been in the top 10 on Billboard’s Top Jazz Album charts. Other recordings include Anticipation released in 2004, Let It Go under the Native Language Music label, and I Hear a Rhapsody released in 2009.

Giselle Wyers's newly commissioned And All Shall Be Well features texts that highlight different aspects of how an individual can leave a lasting impact on the world, set in her characeristically warm, melodious, resonant style. The musical legacy of the Shakers is heard in arrangements by Kevin Seigfried, aside spirituals arranged by Moses Hogan and William Dawson. Plus we celebrate Vashon's own musical legacy with a local composers and the Tin Pan Alley song Vashon Island Moon.

The Mägi Ensemble celebrates the Baltic Centennial with an afternoon concert of both traditional Baltic folk songs as well as new and innovative pieces by Baltic composers. Compositions by Vytautas Miškinis, Pärt Uusberg, Ester Mägi, Ēriks Ešenvalds and others.

This concert is also a preview of repertoire for the Mägi Ensemble's upcoming performance at the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies Conference at Stanford University in June as well as their Baltic Tour in June-July.

Please join us for an evening of a cappella music and refreshments. Pacific Sound Chorus and member quartets will perform songs they have prepared for the upcoming women’s regional Barbershop singing contest in Spokane, WA.

Our title piece expresses a longing to reconnect. Other folk songs on the program include: "The Little Horses", "He's Gone Away", "Camptown Races", "Grandfather's Clock", and "Country Dances.
American spirituals express a desire to connect with the divine sometimes through haunting melodies and simple yet profound harmonies like "Deep River" and "Hold On!"
On our Sunday program at Fox Island, Cora Voce welcomes from Gig Harbor High School, the Meistersingers and Bella Voce. Don't miss it!

Cantabile Chamber Choir’s concerts, “Fire and Ice: Love’s Incarnations”, speak truth to whoever has been in love by exploring love, passion, and even scorn in a wide-ranging repertoire. Enjoy an interpretive talk by our music director, Dr. Stephen Marshall-Ward, 45 minutes prior to concerts. Admission (at the door): $16 general, $10 students, $45 families. Apr 27-Anacortes (7:30pm), Apr 28-Snohomish (7:30pm), Apr 29-Mt. Vernon (4pm). See our Facebook page for details.

Music and feelings can move together sharing nuances of intensity. The concert builds from the Song of the Universal to happy feelings of Faure's In Paradisum to fear in Mozart's Dies Irae, then calming into The Seal Lullaby and Rutter's I Will Sing With the Spirit. That's just in the first half. You'll have to come for this full experience in music.
This concert is just two weeks upon the choir's return from New York to sing in Carnegie Hall.

No decade has exemplified more profound, jarring and exhilarating change than the 1960's. Inspired by monumental events, we celebrate the music that both captured and reflected that the times, they were indeed a-changin'.

Venice in the East celebrates music from Crete and the Ionian Islands, which were ruled by the Venetians after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204. This program was originally performed at the Early Music Festival in Utrecht (Netherlands) in 2016.

Please join Opus 7 to celebrate the musical contributions of some of our region’s most prominent choral composers. This popular biannual event features choral works by Northwest composers, including Opus 7’s Composer-in-Residence John Muehleisen, and student composer winners of the Opus 7 Robert Scandrett Memorial Award.

Come be transported back in time to the 1940s and experience a live "radio" show featuring the distinctive American music of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Delight in and laugh along with our warm and witty announcer, David Schroeder, as he leads us through skits and commercials reminiscent of this bygone era. Vince Fejeran's big band and our singers will recreate the Pennsylvanians' swinging sounds for your listening enjoyment.

Ponder birth, childhood, love, family, and the wisdom that comes with a spirited old age as MCE embarks on a sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, always entertaining musical journey around the circle of life.

How can I keep from singing! Kitsap Community Chorale sings of love, memories, hope and faith in a concert which includes some of our favorites from the past 5 seasons. Prelude to Peace, Dirait-on, I loved You, Wanting Memories, Total Praise and I Sing Because I'm Happy to name a few. Also featured, our salute to the 5th food group - Coffee! Please join us as we share our music thoughts in what's sure to be a fun afternoon or evening!

The Olympic Girls' Choir and the Bainbridge Youth Orchestra join forces for the first time to present a work commissioned for this event, Let Us All Make Music, showcasing the artistry of these young performers.

An extravaganza of language and song, this day of workshops and Ted-style talks will culminate in a world-premiere choral cycle exploring the healing power of poetry and music. Join Artistic Director Robert Bode; New York Times best-selling author and 2017-18 CANW poet-in-residence Mark Nepo; and our 2017-18 composer-in-residence Shawn Kirchner to explore the different ways poetry is making itself present in our modern society.

Poetry Festival & Concert (May 5th); Concert reprise (May 6th)

This fun spring show celebrates the Big Apple, from the Great White Way to the famed Birdland Jazz Club. ChoralSounds Northwest, VocalSounds Northwest, and The Smamblettes will perform a mix of Broadway favorites and jazz standards. It promises to be a swingin’ good time!

Don't we all need a little more laughter in our lives? Favorite music from operas and musicals that's guaranteed to make you smile a little and laugh a lot. Featuring outstanding soloists soprano Maria Mannisto and tenor David Hendrix.

Music and feelings can move together sharing nuances of intensity. The concert builds from the Song of the Universal to happy feelings of Faure's In Paradisum to fear in Mozart's Dies Irae, then calming into The Seal Lullaby and Rutter's I Will Sing With the Spirit. That's just in the first half. You'll have to come for this full experience in music.
This concert is just two weeks upon the choir's return from New York to sing in Carnegie Hall.

A tribute to beautiful spring in Sweden.

Northwest Associated Arts' youngest singers present a varied and fun show to chase away the winter doldrums. Artistic Director Kerstin Shaffer has created a fun-filled and family friendly show that is sure to put a smile on your face!

No decade has exemplified more profound, jarring and exhilarating change than the 1960's. Inspired by monumental events, we celebrate the music that both captured and reflected that the times, they were indeed a-changin'.

In collaboration with City Cantabile Choir and its director Fred West, this unique program features the stirring Mass for Peace and Justice (Misa por la Paz y la Justicia), a rarely-heard work by legendary Argentinian composer Ariel Ramirez, featuring the traditional 6-piece Andean ensemble Surllajta and tenor soloist Justin Ferris. . All ensembles will perform other dynamic music from the region in the first half of the concert.

Join us for our fourth annual Mother's Day Bach Cantata concert, featuring two cantatas and professional period orchestra!

Kulshan Chorus joins forces with Kuntz & Co and Keefe Healy to present TWO performances of Breaking Silence, an artistic representation of the underlying ground of the #MeToo movement. Using choreography, spoken word and stage design, Kulshan Chorus presents a collection of 21st century choral pieces that will evoke empathy, resilience, and clarity between right and wrong.
May 12 at Bellingham High School. Matinee at 2:00; evening concert at 7:30pm. Tickets at Brownpapertickets.com

Join Northwest Chorale, directed by Lynn Hall, accompanied by full orchestra and guest soloists for Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Experience this epic oratorio composed in the spirit of Handel and Bach.

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

The Mill Creek Chorale, a 85-member adult community choir based in Mill Creek, WA (Snohomish County) presents its fourth annual Spring concert, Anchored, and will feature a collection of Americana, Gospel, and Classical Sacred Music that is sure to inspire!

Songs Include:
Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus & Lacrymosa
Haydn's Te Deum
Beethoven's Hallelujah
Arnesen's Even When He Is Silent
Hogan's My Soul's Been Anchored
Bestor's Prayer of the Children
Moore's Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Venue: Stewart Middle School, 5010 Pacific Ave. Tacoma, WA 98408

Tacoma Refugee Choir invites you to join in an evening of music and storytelling grounded in themes of hope, heroism and compassion amidst adversity. “Refugee Stories” will feature Tacoma Refugee Choir in collaboration with local artists as they explore songs and stories surrounding refugee experiences and celebrate the invaluable contributions of refugees in the Tacoma Community.

RYC's six choirs and three local guest ensembles will perform separately and together in this multicultural concert: the award-winning Seattle acoustic band, Erwilian, the Nelsen MS Concert Chorus, directed by Brian Hoskins, and the Maple View MS Concert Choir, directed by Jackie Meline. "Sisi Ni Moja" and "Touch the Sky" from Brave are the featured combined songs with all 250 singers accompanied by Erwilian!

Sponsored in part by a grant from the Washington American Choral Directors' Assn.

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

We’re going hoppin’, we’re going hoppin’ tonight!
The Lake Washington Singers pay tribute to some of the most popular music from the last 100 years in its spring dinner concert entitled “Bandstand Boogie.”
Join us for a festive evening with fun music, a wine and beer bar, great catered BBQ and of course, the dessert dash.

Barnett & Bernstein!

Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, KCS presents selections from his beloved Candide.
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Introducing Dance Then To Everything, a world premiere by renowned American composer, Carol Barnett, along with the Seattle-area premiere of her contemporary masterwork, The World Beloved–A Bluegrass Mass.

Ms. Barnett joins us in person for this delightful Spring celebration!

The Emerald Ensemble concludes its second season with a tribute to the choral music of Finland. Performances are on Vashon Island on May 19th and in Seattle on May 20th as one of the inaugural concerts at the new Nordic Heritage Museum. Artistic Director Dr. Gary D. Cannon will give a pre-concert lecture beginning 25 minutes before each concert.

The final concert of the 23rd season of Olympia Youth Chorus, featuring all five choirs:
Dolce, Bel Canto, Coro Voce, Forza and Cantabile. Program will include lighter selections including favorites from movies and TV as well as traditional pieces. Suitable for all ages. Seating is unreserved; doors open at 2:30 p.m.

Join Northwest Chorale, directed by Lynn Hall, accompanied by full orchestra and guest soloists for Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Experience this epic oratorio composed in the spirit of Handel and Bach.

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

Music about finding your way back, whether it's the way back home, or the way to a better understanding of things. With diverse selections about that journey, including Wayfaring Stranger, a new composition,"Take Me Home" by Mitchell Fund, and highlights from The Wizard of Oz. We also include a complete performance of Randall Thompson's Frostiana. We are happy to be performing at Seattle First Baptist Church for the first time.

We shine the spotlight on Prep Choir in this charming and joyful year-end performance.

Sacred Ground
May 18 & 19, 2018 - 8pm

Sacred Ground presents choral music that explores our spiritual relationship with the natural world. The program includes: An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts for multiple choirs by Healey Willan; Canticle of the Sun, a setting of the Saint Francis of Assisi text by rising star Tõnu Kõrvits; and Hyo-Won Woo's Amazing Grace in which singers recreate the sounds of wind, water, and birdsong.

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Join Con Brio Women's Choir as they welcome the women of BVS Women's Choir from Brooklyn, NY for an evening benefit concert. After Con Brio returns from a tour in New York in April, BVS will travel here to Seattle to complete the choral exchange. Music will explore women's justice, empowerment, and equality. Donations will be collected to benefit Operation Nightwatch (Food and shelter for Seattle's homeless) and Elizabeth Gregory Home (women’s day center in U District).

“It’s About Time!” is a high-energy music revue, featuring music by The Beatles, The Pointer Sisters, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago, Billy Joel, The Guess Who, Cyndi Lauper, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, and many more! “It’s About Time!” features the vocal, dance, and dramatic talents of the 36-member Vocalpoint! Seattle ensemble, a select group of high school men and women from throughout the Puget Sound region.

“It’s About Time!” is a high-energy music revue, featuring music by The Beatles, The Pointer Sisters, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago, Billy Joel, The Guess Who, Cyndi Lauper, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Rolling Stones, The Talking Heads, and many more! “It’s About Time!” features the vocal, dance, and dramatic talents of the 36-member Vocalpoint! Seattle ensemble, a select group of high school men and women from throughout the Puget Sound region.

Please join us for our final concert of the season, featuring contemplative music for a cappella choir and including Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir. With a pre-concert lecture and reception at 2:30 PM.

Refresh your spirit with the prayerful delights of J. S. Bach’s Jesu Mein Freude and Der Geist Hilft unserer Schwachheit auf. Then, from the sublime to the satiric, laugh out loud at P.D.Q. Bach’s Liebeslieder Polkas, an ironic homage to the romantic Brahms by the elder Bach’s “only forgotten son.”

We’re going hoppin’, we’re going hoppin’ tonight!
The Lake Washington Singers pay tribute to some of the most popular music from the last 100 years in its spring dinner concert entitled “Bandstand Boogie.”
Join us for a festive evening with fun music, a wine and beer bar, great catered BBQ and of course, the dessert dash.

Join the Seattle Jewish Chorale as we celebrate our landmark 10th Anniversary Season with a special concert and gala at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ - Intellectual House on the UW Seattle Campus. The concert will feature works sung in English, Hebrew, and Latin. Tickets include pre-show wine, hors d'ouvres and raffle, concert, and post-concert dessert reception. Conducted by Jacob Finkle, accompanied by Harumi Makiyama.

Our annual spring concert will be on Sunday, June 3rd, at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in West Seattle. We will be celebrating the retirement of our director, John Gulhaugen, after 12 years of leading our group, with songs from past years' concerts. We will also introduce our new director. A farewell reception will follow the concert. Suggested donation $10

Welcome to Farm to Table, our final MainStage Performance of the season. We are singing songs of the work of food: ploughing, harvesting, grinding, baking, cooking, and eating too! As always, join us for a special sing-along accompanied by the finest instrumentalists in town.

All choirs will gather to present our 2017-2018 Season Finale, “Journey On.” Again, the focus will be an American Patchwork of choral selections about our journey through life. The concert will include folk songs, spirituals, Broadway selections and more beautifully composed American anthems that portray different dimensions of travel and life’s journey through sound pictures. We are honored to have you with us for this inspired conclusion to a great year of choral performances.

To honor the 200th birthday of French composer, Charles Gounod, ChoralSounds NW and VocalSounds NW will perform his stunning piece, Messe Solennelle, as well as fellow Frenchman Gabriel Fauré’s beloved Requiem. Both pieces, performed entirely in Latin, will be accompanied by a musicians from Northwest Symphony Orchestra.

Join us on a summer road trip as we meander from the Southwest desert to the Swanee River to New York. This tribute to American composers will feature Gershwin, Porter, Bernstein, Foster, Copland, and more!

Music honoring the Native American legacy, with an original composition by Frederick N. West, featuring guest artists Sondra Segundo, Haida singer and author, Doug James - Shaker singer of the Lummi Tribe, and Johny Moses - Tulalip story teller.

Inspired by a world full of exotic choral sounds from Russia, Spain, Japan, and Persia, Ancora, a Seattle-based women’s choir, presents "Postcards: Songs from the Four Corners." The rich poetry and culture of these faraway places will come alive in settings from composers Abbie Betinis, Bob Chilcott, Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Come support Ancora's end-of-season and feel free to attend our after-party!

Beginning in the 10th century, the Christian church began to recognize certain holy persons as saints, and by the end of the middle ages, the list of the canonized was extensive. Many were felt to have a special relationship to a certain believers, such as young clerics (St. Nicholas) or bakers (St. Elizabeth), and were called upon to intercede with God on their behalf. Songs praising Saints were common throughout the middle ages. Join our musical journey through the pantheon of medieval saints!

Together, Concord Chamber Choir and Con Brio Women's Choir will present a concert celebrating life, exploring love, yearning for hope, and settling into the renewal of the soul.

Come join us as we journey through the stages of life in this nature-filled Springtime showcase. Through the combined beauty of music and poetry, we will experience scenes ranging from the morning of childhood through the evening of old age, always mindful of the beauty of living as seen through the natural world.

Here in the Northwest we are used to dealing with the weather, so let’s celebrate it in song. Of course rain features prominently, especially in Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst and a new arrangement of Stormy Weather by our own Jeremy Kings. We will sing music by composers old and new, ranging from Billings, Brahms, and Elgar to John Rutter, Joan Szymko, and Joy Porter. And don’t worry: there is plenty of sunlight too.

Mendelssohn Psalm 42
OSSCS Composer Competition winning entry
Elgar From the Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27
Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D Minor

Northwest Sound present its 33rd annual spring concerts with very special guests Renegade quartet and other surprises!

Share this special Anniversary concert with us! We sing old favorites and new gems, looking back at the path we have journeyed together, and ahead to the promise of the future with all our talented members. This program features the world premiere of Days Gone By by Eric William Barnum, commissioned for this high note in the history of the Chorus. Eric will be in residence with the NWCC during the week of the concerts. An Anniversary Reception follows the Sunday concert.

NWRS is joined by members of Symphony Tacoma for performances of Morton Laudridsen's "Lux Aeterna" and John Corigliano's "Fern Hill." This is also the final concert with NWRS for retiring founder and artistic director Paul W. Schultz. Dr. Schultz and the choir will be joined by NWRS alumni from across the United States for a finale that will have you singing long after the concert is over.

The highly acclaimed Northwest Boychoir announces their Choral Tradition series for June 2018. Now in its fourth season, Choral Tradition celebrates the breadth and diversity of the classical choral repertoire. This year’s program will feature Johann Michael Haydn’s Missa Sancti Aloysii, composed in 1777 for treble voices and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria composed in 1959/1960 for SATB chorus.

From boisterous toe-tapping tunes and haunting ballads, to soulful spirituals and treasured hymns, the powerful music of the Appalachian Mountains beckons across the ages. Send us off to Europe with this spellbinding concert of American folk music that will warm your heart and lift your spirits.

Save the dates for our spring concert to preview our upcoming summer tour repertoire!

DESIGNO will feature two world premieres: the full choral version of Machina mundi, a work for digitally processed voices and live chorus by Lisa Bielawa, and Of the age by Joshua Fishbein. We will also sing two of Eric Banks' compositions, Etternalmente vive and Förklaring [Elucidation], plus Hommage à Edith and Seven last words by Finnish composer Jaakko Mäntyjärvi. And we will reprise of one of our favorite pieces, Richard Strauss' virtuosic Deutsche Motette.

Join us in June for music that is timeless: from the Big Band swing style of the 40’s to the classics of the 50’s, and more! We’ll be singing music from legendary artists and top hits . . . and whether this is a trip down memory lane, or a great celebration of music of past generations, you’ll be tapping your toes and humming along. We’ll be joined by the Rainier Chorale band, as well as some of our fine soloists and small groups. You’ll want to bring the entire family!

Pre-concert talk one hour prior presented by Director Freddie Coleman

A springtime program of delightful choral song cycles from Central Europe by Brahms, Dvořak, Bartók, and Górecki.

“Zigeunerlieder” (Gypsy Songs) by Johannes Brahms
“Four Slovak Songs” by Béla Bartok
“Broad Waters” by Henryk Górecki
“Six Moravian Songs” by Antonin Dvořak/Arr. Leoš Janáček

Help celebrate the end of a great season of music for our young singers!
SpringSong 2018 will be split into two concerts. The 1pm Concert will feature Melodia, Harmonia, Ragazzi, and Bel Canto. The 4pm Concert will feature Lyrica, Bel Canto, and Cantabile.

Women love him, men want to be him and teenage girls around the country scream with glee at the mere mention of his name Conrad Birdie.
The Sno-King Community Chorale under the direction of Dustin Willetts presents a concert version of the musical comedy Bye Bye Birdie adapted by Frank DeMiero.

The choir will sing "Spirit of Freedom" by Ed Lojeski with Brass Reflections Ensemble

From boisterous toe-tapping tunes and haunting ballads, to soulful spirituals and treasured hymns, the powerful music of the Appalachian Mountains beckons across the ages. Send us off to Europe with this spellbinding concert of American folk music that will warm your heart and lift your spirits.

Save the dates for our spring concert to preview our upcoming summer tour repertoire!

Eclectic program of music to raise funds (free admission but donations accepted at the concert) for the Georges Marcellus School in the rural village of Guerot, Haiti.

Northwest Girlchoir takes the stage with music and poetry of movement—in nature, throughout one’s lifetime, and songs of struggle and inspiration from the Civil Rights and Women’s Rights movements and around the globe. Featuring a collaboration with Kaleidoscope Dance Company and a world premiere by Seattle composer Jessica French.

SGC's annual Spring Concert, including performances by all of the six choirs in the program.