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.

Come hear the sweet and savory sounds of the Lake Washington Singers as they delight your senses with three courses of songs.
The evening's specials include Chili Con Carne, Food Glorious Food, A Girl's Garden, and much more. Save room for a scrumptious dessert of Lollipops, Frim Fram Sauce, and a little Java Jive.
Bring your appetite for a good time, because Music is the Food of Love. Hope to see you there.

We learn from the creativity and imaginations of children. We watch children at play and wonder over their brilliant, inventive young minds. Music, both singing and movement, seem to flow without restraint from young children. As we close our season, we present “Flights of Fancy”, a concert that invites each of our choirs to be playful, light-hearted, imaginative set to performers sharing choral settings by some of the great composers of our day. We will sing of imaginary creatures like Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky and tell of barnyards that come to life at nighttime and swings that send a child flying and planes that spin heavenward close enough to touch the face of God. You will not want to miss this experience! And like Charlie in the Chocolate Factory may I invite you to “Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination!”

CANCELLED. We hope to collaborate with the student singers at the Tacoma School of the Arts in future seasons.

Join the members of the Seattle Metropolitan Singers, under the direction of Allan J. Andrews, and accompanied by Daniel Emme, as we bring you music to lift your spirits. Refreshments to follow the performance. Suggested donation $20

The hills are alive with the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein! You cain't say no to some of your favorite things; we promise you'll be whistling a happy tune after this show!

From The Andrews Sisters’ boogie-woogie beats to the Spice Girls’ “girl power” anthems, these supremely talented vocal groups have been the intoxicating soundtrack to life and love. Featuring songs from twenty of the biggest ensembles to grace the charts, including “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Cruel Summer,” “Wide Open Spaces,” and “Survivor.”

Ever since the earliest days of human civilization, the ocean has captured the imagination. What is on the other side? And how can one possibly get there? Terra australis, a new work by local composer Bronwyn Edwards, our Composer-in-Residence this season, recalls those Europeans who first ventured to her native Australia, incorporating didgeridoo into the choir. Her Leonosa recounts an actual shipping vessel that took lumber from Washington to California in the 1840s. Another local composer, Michael Austin Miller, rejoices in the ancient explorers.

Of course, not all such exchanges were peaceful: Horizons, by the South African composer Peter Louis Van Dijk, movingly tells of native life that became slaughtered by European conquerors. Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s Canticum calamitatis maritimae vividly depicts another tragedy: the sinking of the MS Estonia during a storm at sea in 1994. But rest assured that all is not dark. For example, Benjamin Britten extols St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music, who emerged from the sea. And with much lighter fare as well—particularly Across the sea from the Wailin’ Jennys—the joys of the ocean are always near.

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.

All endings bring the hope of renewal. Musical descriptions of the Last Judgment and the Archangel Michael’s final defeat the devil include works of Scheidt, Vulpius, Gumpelzhaimer, and the Sacred Harp tradition. Jonathan Dove’s thrilling cycle, The Passing of the Year, closes our season with Tennyson’s words, “Ring in the thousand years of peace!”

For the fifth concert in our Masterworks series, ChoralSounds Northwest and VocalSounds Northwest collaborate with Northwest Symphony Orchestra to celebrate 250 years of Beethoven by performing his powerful and exquisite Mass in C, Op. 86. This earlier setting of his two masses shows Beethoven’s respect for Mozart and Haydn in this genre but also displays his own unique voice that continues to astound listeners two and a half centuries later. This performance will be offered in Burien and Bellevue.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff composed two major a cappella choral works—the “Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom” and the “All-Night Vigil”—that displayed his Orthodox faith in a manner that was innovative and fresh. In 1910 he turned to the sacred service of his church and with amazing speed composed the monumental “Divine Liturgy.” Afterward he said, “Not for a long time have I written anything with such pleasure."

Less well-known is Rachmaninoff’s early choral work, “Concerto for Choir,” written in 1893. It was both a culmination of a great tradition and a starting point for so much of what followed in Russia. Such “concertos” were popular in the eighteenth century as additions to the Orthodox divine service.

The “Three Sacred Hymns” from the Orthodox liturgy were composed in 1983 by Alfred Schnittke. The Russian conductor Valery Polyansky had requested an a cappella work for his choir, and though at first Schnittke seemed reluctant, he apparently woke in the middle of the night and wrote down these three pieces, and handed the manuscript to Polyansky the following day. The work was only published posthumously.

Featured works:
“Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31” by Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Concerto for Choir, The Grave and Death Could Not Hold the Mother of God” by Sergei Rachmaninoff
“Three Sacred Hymns” by Alfred Schnittke

Accustomed as we are to our bustling, secular lives, it can be difficult to imagine the richness of the world that developed behind the walls of the medieval cloister. Although they were under the absolute authority of the church, women there enjoyed an agency and self-direction that were hard to come by on the outside. Their most meaningful personal relationships and an often-profound spiritual renewal were tied to that community, and this autonomous life spawned religious practices and unique musical repertoires that are little-known today. Through their music, the MWC takes you behind the walls to experience the metaphysical landscape of the sequestered life.

Our spring program is inspired by the rich cultural heritage of our choir. We’ll be performing music from Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and more as we embrace a world united by song. Join us for an intimate evening of uplifting and moving music born in the far away lands of our ancestors.

This is our most light-hearted concert of the year! Join us for a selection of memorable and fun music performed by the chorus as well as individual members.

Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating. Free parking. Doors typically open 20 minutes before the show.

All 270 singers of Northwest Girlchoir, grades 1-12, take the stage at Benaroya Hall to celebrate how good it is to be in, and to sing in, a community, with diverse repertoire including the Jewish hymn “Hine Ma Tov,” Joan Szymko’s anti-bulllying piece “Words,” and Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi’s multi-movement Gloria with chamber orchestra, written for and first performed by the select girl pupils of the Venetian Ospedale. We’ll conclude with Jim Papoulis’ Juntos, in collaboration with projected photography from the artists of Youth in Focus.

Featuring Fresca, Amabile, Vivace, Amore, and Ensemble.

Ticket prices are $27 at the door; in advance, ticket prices are $22 for general admission, $20 for seniors and people with special needs, and $10 for students.

To close out the season, the Ensign Symphony & Chorus will be celebrating freedom, life, and light from throughout the world by highlighting music from many different lands and cultures.

Join the Cascade Foothills Chorale in a fun romp through familiar themes!

Our spring program is inspired by the rich cultural heritage of our choir. We’ll be performing music from Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and more as we embrace a world united by song. Join us for an intimate evening of uplifting and moving music born in the far away lands of our ancestors.

Join us for our end of the season celebration! This virtual choir concert will feature pieces from each of our choirs: kindergartners all the way up to high school. Featuring virtual choir videos with visuals created and curated by the choristers themselves, this will be an enchanting way for us to close out the year.

Also featured in this concert: a special send-off for the Class of 2020, a virtual choir video from our SGC alums, and guest appearances from members of SYSO! We hope you can join us from wherever you are!

Youth Choir Festival NW 2020
Guest Conductor: Jim Papoulis

Newly designed for all ages!
Fri-Sun, June 12-14, 2020

Youth Choir Festival Concerts
Children's Choirs: Sat, June 13, 2020, 7:00 PM
Youth Choirs: Sun, June 14, 2020, 3:00 PM
Concert tickets will be available in spring 2020.

Held on the beautiful campus of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma. Festival rehearsals and concerts will be in Lagerquist Concert Hall!

Advanced Youth Choirs – songwriting workshop & festival with Guest Conductor Jim Papoulis! Work with Jim to compose a new youth chorus song. Then perform it as part of our festival concert on Sunday afternoon. Concert will feature all choirs individually and combined. Open to all advanced treble & mixed voice youth choirs (approximately grades 6-12).
Fee: $325 per person - includes 2 nights lodging, six meals, two evening socials, t-shirt, all festival activities and more!

Children’s Choirs – Saturday only festival with Guest Conductor Jim Papoulis! Spend the day rehearsing with the combined choirs in preparation for a festival concert on Saturday night. Concert will feature all children’s choirs performing individually and combined. Open to elementary aged of all abilities (approximately grades K-6). Fee: $95 per person – includes Sat lunch and dinner, social activities, t-shirt, all festival activities and more!

Register online: www.youthchoirfestival.com

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In the 1960s, a little record label out of Detroit released a new musical sound onto the airwaves, launching the careers of some of the most successful black artists of the 20th century and forever changing America. This concert is a celebration of the greatest hits of the Motown sound and the pop, R&B and soul music that grew in its wake.

No MCE season would be complete without our popular tribute to Independence Day in Issaquah’s historic Pickering Barn, with lots of sing alongs, historical commentary, and all-American music. It’s on Friday evening this year, so come early, bring the family, and order dinner through an on-site food truck! This year’s theme: Washington state history.

Join the Mill Creek Chorale and they visit iconic and historical sights in Scotland and Ireland, either as a singer or non-singer. Contact us for more information about the available package, provided by Sechrist Travel, and join us for the musical, experience, fun, and fellowship - June 28-July 9 with an extension to London, England, returning July 12!

Vivere, a Slovenian women's choir traveling the United States, joins the Seattle Metropolitan Singers for a very special evening performance. Please come and and enjoy songs in both English and Slovenian.