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GSCC Member Event Calendar
September 30 – October 6, 2019 (Past)
Our season begins with a journey through heavenly mysteries inspired by the writings of Johannes Kepler (Music of the Spheres – Kevin Siegfried) alongside choral masterworks such J.S. Bach’s motet for double chorus (Komm, Jesu, Komm – BWV 229) and rarely heard works by Morten Lauridsen and Joan Szymko. Join us as we embark on our 27th season in a one-night-only offering of transcendent and inspired choral fireworks.
Our 50th season begins with music of creation. Hear trailblazing composer Carol Sams’ epic masterpiece, The Earthmakers, an oratorio that recounts creation stories from a multitude of world cultures. We also feature La création du monde, a jazzy work by Sams’ teacher, Darius Milhaud, as well as the world premiere of local composer Carlos Garcia’s fanfare, Vast Array.
The Emerald Ensemble is honored to be the first performers to broadcast live from Classical KING-FM's new studio! Featuring Britten's Five Flower Songs, Lauridsen's Les chansons des roses, and works by Billings and local composer Jeremy Kings. This performance will promote the forthcoming GSCC Seattle Sings festival the following weekend.
The live audience is by invitation only, but all can listen at 98.1 FM in Seattle, or worldwide at king.org.
In the tradition of "miscast" cabarets, members of SPM and Karen P. Thomas will dazzle you with unlikely pairings of songs and singers. You’ll enjoy novel takes on Broadway choruses and cabaret solos along with delicious food and drink from Wild Ginger. Get ready for an evening of surprising match-ups and unexpected delights!
Two shows! October 5, 2019 - 7 PM and 9:30 PM
apx. 80 minutes, no intermission
full menu and bar available
October 7–13, 2019 (Past)
Join us for the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium’s fourth biennial Seattle Sings Choral Festival, showcasing 35 dynamic choirs of all types and styles from around the Puget Sound region: medieval to barbershop, jazz to classical, men’s and women’s and SATB choirs, heritage choirs and more.
This year we welcome Northwest composer, Ethan Sperry, as the festival’s composer-in-residence. Mr. Sperry has been commissioned by the GSCC to compose this year’s festival anthem and will be present to conduct participating choirs and audience in the festival anthem periodically throughout the festival.
Friday evening will honor Northwest composer Morten Lauridsen for his many years of service to choral music, and will feature six choirs presenting a retrospective of his works. Lauridsen himself will be in attendance and to cap the evening will lead the audience and choirs in one of his most beloved works, “Sure On This Shining Night.”
Opening our 15 year anniversary season is a program featuring Renaissance music for large vocal forces, including Thomas Tallis's 40-part "Spem in alium" and Robert Carver's 19-part "O bone Jesu." Accompanying these masterpieces are some of our favorite motets from all over Europe, featuring music by Giovanni Gabrieli, William Byrd, and Alonso Lobo.
October 14–20, 2019 (Past)
Our first, informal performance of the year for all six ensembles singing together and separately. Audience sing-a-longs are always a favorite part of this event. The stunning finale (Kwela, Kwela) involves all RYC singers in 4 part a cappella harmony with percussion and movement. Selections by Naverud, Papoulis, PinkZebra, Unterseher, Kellman, and Route 66!
This program will encourage us to find peace in accepting the truth, to avoid deceit, to find comfort in the unanswered question, and to trust good thoughts, words, and deeds. Singing texts from various sources, HONESTY will feature music by Abbie Betinis, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, Samantha Fernando, Ted Hearne, Anna-Karin Klockar, Forrest Pierce, Fahad Siadat, Dale Trumbore, Trevor Weston, Julia Wolfe, and world premieres by this year’s POLYPHONOS winners: David Ho-yi Chan, Katherine Pukinskis, and Scott Senko.
The Ensign Symphony & Chorus opens their seventh season, In His Light, with a spectacular collaboration with singer Nathan Pacheco. Nathan has been amazing audiences around the country with his smooth tenor voice and his wide stylistic range. In addition to the collaboration, the chorus and symphony will continue to impress with Eric Whitacre’s Lux Aurumque and the world-premiere of Stephen Weatherford’s arrangement of Be Still My Soul.
Come listen to the Seattle Ladies Choir sing in perfect harmony at our Season 17 Concerts, including choral versions of songs by Janelle Monáe, Damien Rice, Dolly Parton, Mumford & Sons, and more!
We will be performing three shows at Broadway Performance Hall on Capitol Hill. The hall is easily accessible via light rail and bus, and a 500-spot parking garage is located near the venue. All shows are wheelchair accessible. Doors open 30 minutes prior to concert time; tickets available at the door, subject to availability, prices may vary. Drinks and merchandise will be available for purchase before the show and during intermission.
Outstanding women's a cappella vocal ensemble, Latvian Voices shares a wonderful afternoon of music with the Seattle-based Baltic women's ensemble, Mägi Ensemble and the Inglemoor High School Chamber Choir Women's Ensemble. Pre-concert lecture with Laura Jēkabsone and Guntis Šmidchens at 2pm.
Only two spots left! (Soprano 2 and Alto 1) Ancora is currently seeking new members. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
October 21–27, 2019 (Past)
Opus 7 begins its 28th season with a celebration of the moon and the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. In the 20th century, nations raced to conquer it, while lovers basked in its moody, silvery light. Opus 7 will be performing works by a stellar group of composers who have lent their considerable talents to compositions revolving around the moon. You will hear works by Morten Lauridsen, Ildebrando PIzzetti, Antonín Dvořák, David Hamilton, Stephen Chatman, Bob Chilcott, Daniel Elder, Meredith Monk, Kile Smith, and Opus 7's Composer-in-Residence John Muehleisen.
Christina Siemens, piano
William Berry, trumpet
Roger Burnett & Amie Stewart, horn
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
Opening our inaugural season is a program featuring Shaker arrangements by American composers and British partsongs.
SIEGFRIED Shaker songs
SHAKER Gentle Words
SHAKER Paradise
POSTON Jesus Christ The Apple Tree
THOMSON My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
RUTTER Loving Shepherd of Thy Sheep
SHAKER The Harvest
COPLAND Simple Gifts
SHAKER The Pure Fountain
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Call
arr. KASTANAS Old Churchyard
SIEGFRIED At the water's edge
SHAKER In Yonder Valley
HAMMOND The Humble Heart
WATTS Blooming Vale
SIEGFRIED Angels Hovering 'Round
IRELAND The Hills
Join Sine Nomine, with Guest Conductor Sheila Bristow, for our fall concert ‘Laus Trinitati: In Praise of the Divine’. We will feature Renaissance works from various countries, early to late, which employ joyful texts about the creative, life-giving powers of the Trinity. The concert is framed by a dip into the medieval period with Hildegard of Bingen’s chant ‘Laus Trinitati’, and concludes in the contemporary world with American composer Frank Ferko’s motet, based on Hildegard’s chant.
Vocalpoint! Seattle presents, “The Name Game” - a high energy music revue, featuring some of rock’s greatest name songs by artists from the 1960s, 70s & 80s! Featuring music by The Beach Boys, Manhattan Transfer, Bruce Springsteen, Three Dog Night, Rickie Lee Jones, The Turtles, Fleetwood Mack, The Hollies, The Righteous Brothers, and many others. “The Name Game” features the vocal, dance, and dramatic talents of the 34-member Vocalpoint! Seattle ensemble, a select group of high school men and women from throughout the Puget Sound region.
Join us for a sneak peek of the season’s repertoire, featuring a sampling from each of our five auditioned choirs, including our traditional round showing how girls’ voices grow and mature. Free admission and cookie/cider reception to follow.
Featuring Fresca, Amabile, Vivace, Amore and Ensemble.
Only two spots left! (Soprano 2 and Alto 1) Ancora is currently seeking new members. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
October 28 – November 3, 2019 (Past)
Join us for the world premiere of Huntley Beyer’s Circumference, an oratorio written in memory of OSSCS founder George Shangrow. Also featured are Jennifer Higdon’s blue cathedral, composed to honor her late brother, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eroica symphony, written “to the memory of a great man.”
A pilgrimage through life…to rest and peace.
An All Saints Day meditation on life’s journeys, featuring reSound, a Northwest Chamber Ensemble.
The Northwest Boychoir is now scheduling tryouts for boys who love to sing!
Boys who are ages 6-9 years old are invited to audition and no previous music training is needed. Classes for new members begin in January and are located at the University Heights Center in Seattle. Auditions are free of charge.
For more than 40 years, the Choirs have helped young people discover the joy of singing, self-discipline and teamwork. The Northwest Boychoir is proud to be an inclusive and equitable organization and is firmly committed to assisting families with financial aid. The Northwest Boychoir offers the perfect blend of music training and Serious Fun!
Audition appointments are scheduled through the Northwest Choirs office by calling 206-524-3234 or at www.nwboychoir.org. Auditions are private and low-key, designed to make the boys feel comfortable and relaxed. They last about 15 minutes, and parents are strongly encouraged to be present.
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
November 4–10, 2019 (Past)
The Sound Singers Japanese Choir celebrate their 10th anniversary. Appearances and reminiscences from old friends, retrospectives, and lots of great music. We also feature our awesome Japanese bake sale prior to the concert.
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
November 11–17, 2019 (Past)
Because of the limited number of seats available at these venues, ticket prices are $30 at the door; $25 in advance; $23 seniors, students, and special needs.
A program of songs of the sea. For this program RainShadow Chorale is proud to be hosting composer Jake Runestad, who will conduct two of his compositions: The Secret of the Sea and Let My Love Be Heard.
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
November 18–24, 2019 (Past)
Selections from Schütz’s Psalmen Davids frame this program of beginnings. The tracing of Jesus’ ancestry back to Adam, Pärt’s hypnotic “Which was the son of…,” serves as the centerpiece linking settings from the Genesis creation narrative with German chorales and Latin motets for Advent—the beginning of the church year.
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Meridian Ensemble's new program ‘The Gravity of Beauty’ provides the Seattle area audiences with a rare opportunity to hear some of Russia’s finest secular choral repertoire created by such leading Russian composers of choral music in late 19th – early 20th centuries as Kalinnikov, Arensky, Kui, and Rachmaninov. The program also features a few gems by European masters of choral music – Saint-Saent, Brahms, Reger, Elgar – who developed artistic ties with Russia and greatly enriched cultural exchange between Russia and the West during that era.
Saturday 11/23, 7:00 PM, Magnolia United Church of Christ, Seattle
Sunday 11/24, 2:00 PM, Saint Clement's Episcopal Church, Seattle
Tickets are available at door and at: https://meridianensemble.net/events
John Rutter's beautiful double-choir motet, Hymn to the Creator of Light, was written for the dedication of the Herbert Howells memorial window in Gloucester Cathedral in 1992. Few music teachers in twentieth-century Britain were more influential than Howells, who greeted his first class at London's Royal College of Music in 1920 and his last over 50 years later. Rutter (b. 1945) carries Howells' torch in his dual roles as a prolific choral composer and conductor of the superb Cambridge Singers. As always, Rutter is sensitive to the text, but he does especially lovely work here with the word 'light'.
Because of the limited number of seats available at these venues, ticket prices are $30 at the door; $25 in advance; $23 seniors, students, and special needs.
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
November 25 – December 1, 2019 (Past)
Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”
The Byrd Ensemble and Seattle Baroque Orchestra join forces once again for a performance of Bach's "Wachet auf" and "Magnificat," at the newly renovated Town Hall in Seattle.
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December 2–8, 2019 (Past)
Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”
Doors open at 2:40pm. Festival seating; season ticket holders get preferred seating.
We are excited to have Doug Fullington as guest conductor for AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS, a fun and lively performance of early American music from New England, Appalachian, and Shaker traditions. AN AMERICAN CHRISTMAS is a perfect performance for families, friends, and children to celebrate the holiday season. Raucous tunes in the shapenote tradition; simple, heartfelt Shaker melodies; and the proud and vigorous New England "primitive" style will take the audience on a journey discovering holiday fare from the variety of traditions that combine to create America's vital and inspiring musical heritage. This narrated performance features songs and carols for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year.
PROGRAM
William BILLINGS: O praise the Lord of heaven
Nehemiah SHUMWAY: Schenectady
William WALKER: Sweet prospect
Joseph STEPHENSON: Anthem from Luke
Edward FRENCH: New Bethlehem
Jeremiah INGALLS: Redemption
BILLINGS: Judea
BILLINGS: Shiloh
STEPHENSON: Milford
SHAKER: I will bow and be simple
SHAKER: Love is little
SHAKER: Lay me low
SHAKER: New Year’s greeting
TRADITIONAL: I saw three ships
TRADITIONAL: Joys Seven
TRADITIONAL: The cherry tree
Daniel READ: Sherburne
You are invited to join the Mill Creek Chorale for their annual Holiday Concert at Bothell United Methodist Church, conveniently located next to Bothell High School and Downtown Bothell.
This holiday concert will feature Sacred and Secular music with titles that include -
Away in a Manger - Ola Gjeilo
Festival First Nowell - Dan Forrest
Wexford Carol - Elaine Hagenberg
I wish you Christmas - John Rutter
His Light in Us - Kim André Arnesen
Ain't That-A Rockin' - Stacey V. Gibbs
Christmas on Broadway, Childhood Christmas Favorites, and Baby, It's Cold Outside...
Jonathon Stafford and Sarah Moran, directors
Liz Hopkins, piano
Cookie Sale!
Shop for holiday treats at the show.
Our beloved holiday concerts feature J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Philharmonia Northwest, plus contemporary choral delights focusing on the guiding light of sun, moon, and stars. For many, this concert has become a favorite annual tradition.
Dylan Thomas’ unforgettable ode to his childhood Christmases is a perfect setting for songs of the season. We have chosen outstanding arrangements of traditional carols to be sung interspersed with Thomas’ joyous storytelling as narrated by well-known actor David Pichette. Thomas' idyllic memories of childhood features exaggerated characters whose antics connect strongly with a broad audience. In this concert we’ll sing favorite music of the season from both sides of the pond. You'll hear contributions by Eleanor Daley, Melinda Bargreen, John Taverner, Hubert Bird and others in this delightful holiday program.
Our poignant adaptation of Charles Dickens’ beloved classic A Christmas Carol, for chorus and readers theater, is back by popular demand! Encounter the true spirit of Christmas in this timeless tale of redemption and joy; with David Ketter and John Deveney returning once again as the Narrator and Scrooge.
Bring your family and friends to the Northwest Repertory Singers celebration of the Christmas season! Featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria with orchestra, contrasting modern works, and traditional carols for choir and audience.
A fun romp through revamped Christmas Classics, with a Rousing Raffle to follow!
Join us for a musical feast of carols and sacred works that has a little something for everyone. We are also excited to feature several pieces by local composer Robert Kechley.
Admission is complimentary and a free will offering will be taken to benefit Northwest Harvest.
These delightful arrangements will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Come help us celebrate this festive season!
ChoralSounds Northwest and VocalSounds Northwest are delighted to return to the Eastside this December to perform a festive concert at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Bellevue, featuring a guest string quartet in a special performance of beautiful holiday music. The dreamy sounds of composer Ola Gjeilo are a highlight in this concert that also includes works by Eric Whitacre, Edward Elgar, and many more!
Traditional Carols and Songs from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
This year's Magnolia Chorale December concert will also feature the Seattle Lilla Spelmanslag directed by Martha Levenson. This group of young musicians from age 8 to 18, play traditional Scandinavian folk music in the greater Seattle area.
Two Concerts | Two Venues!
Saturday, December 7, 2019 | 2:00pm
First Free Methodist Church, 3200 3rd Ave W, Seattle
Featuring Amabile, Vivace, and Amore
Sunday, December 8, 2019 | 2:00pm
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Ave, Seattle
Featuring Fresca, Vivace, and Amore
From beautiful settings of the Magnificat and L’dor Vador, to gems like “Winter Wonderland” and “Children, Go Where I Send Thee,” to songs from the Phillipines, Norway, and Greece, you’ll hear exciting repertoire that honors family traditions and music that have been passed down through the generations. We’ll be joined on stage by generations of treble-singing family members and alums to perform our concert finale, “Catch the Spirit, Share the Magic.” Stay tuned on how you can get involved!
Come see our winter concerts featuring cheery Christmas classics ranging from choral art music to gospel. Our large work this year is "Carols and Lullabies" by Conrad Susa which is a collection of Spanish folk songs from a variety of Spanish cultures and dialects set to harp, guitar, and marimba and vibraphone. Come celebrate with us!
We're expanding our concerts to THREE performances! Evening concerts on Friday and Saturday (perfect for date night!) with a matinee on Sunday. Get your tickets online ASAP because we're sold out at 200 tickets per night!
Don't forget, we will also be hosting a silent auction to raise funds for next year's music! Come support us and get a basket of yummy treats!
Get your tickets HERE https://sonoro-great-joy.brownpapertickets.com/
Join Bellevue Youth Choirs for an afternoon celebrating the beauty and wonder of Heaven and Earth. Works by Gwyneth Walker and John Rutter will joyfully welcome you and your family to the holiday season! Our choristers will also invite the audience to join in a sing-a-long of our favorite winter songs.
Featuring the Prima, Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, and Premier Choirs.
Our annual December concert is a delightful blend of seasonal and holiday favorites, both new and old. It is an enjoyable time for all. You'll even have a chance to stretch your own vocal cords with our sing along time. We look forward to seeing you there!
Bring in the holiday season with traditional Norwegian songs and new favorites!
After the concert, enjoy a lovely dessert buffet!
Everett Chorale will be presenting its annual Holiday concert around the theme of Joy! Welcome the season with the sound of brass and shades of joy from triumphant to quiet ecstasy. Featuring The Pinkham Christmas Cantata with Brass Quintet and music from Beethoven, Bach and Lauridsen.
Christmas concert with Chamber Orchestra and piano accompaniments.
Coming home at Christmas means a return to the heart, a return to the memories that shaped us, a return to the possibilities of making a new and better future while honoring the past. In this concert, we celebrate being wherever home is at Christmas.
We are also very excited to premier a new work by a local student composer, the prize-winner in our recent Student Composition Competition. Come join us in celebration of this new work, and of our eternal journey home.
An elegant prelude to the holiday season Lessons and Carols is a wonderful English tradition dating back to 1880, but popularized by the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge in 1918. The general format is a reading from the bible (usually the King James version, as it is an Anglican tradition), starting with younger members of the chorus and progressing “up” through the group. The reading is followed by a song by the choir related to the reading, followed by a carol sung by the whole audience.
Allegra has been invited to join the Byrd Ensemble to present this Lessons and Carols program. The Byrd Ensemble is a highly acclaimed Seattle-based professional ensemble that performs regularly in the region and internationally.
Ring in the holiday season with Seattle Girls Choir! Join Prime Voci and Cantamus as they sing classics celebrating winter and the holiday season, and sing along with some of your favorite carols. A great concert for the whole family!
In medieval Europe, the Christmas season was always celebrated in a big way. The harvest was in, and the short, cold days of winter were all the inducement needed to stay close to the fire and busy oneself with feasting, merriment and song. One type of song, the carol, was so frequently written with Christmas gatherings in mind that today we can hardly imagine any other kind. The joy of Christmas imbued church music as well with the same tuneful glow. The Medieval Women’s Choir tours England and the Continent to bring you the most inspiring music of the season.
Scandinavia has contributed many traditions that we see celebrated in the United States, such as Advent wreaths, candles, and calendars. Christmas seals were first seen in Denmark. And the Scandinavian culture in turn adopted other European Christmas traditions, such as the German Christmas tree and the Dutch Santa Claus. The musical traditions are equally charming. Scandinavian Christmas music, often based on folk songs, blends cheer and melancholy into a unique sound.
The Seattle Choral Company will present a broad range of music from this region, from simple folk song arrangements to sophisticated classical settings of traditional and modern texts, including these works:
“Advent” by Otto Olsson
“Forunderligt at sige” by Carl Nielsen
“Jul Jul, Strålande Jul” by Gustav Nordqvist
“Det hev ei rose sprunge” by Ola Gjeilo
“Ave Maris Stella” by Edvard Grieg
“Gaudete” Suite arr. by Anders Öhrwall
“En etsi valtaa loistoa” by Jan Sibelius
“Sankta Lucia” arr. by Barlow Bradford
“Marjatan Jouluvirsi” by Einojuhani Rautavaara
Pre-concert talk @ 7:00 pm
Family carol sing-along @ 7:30 pm
Concert begins @ 8:00 pm
The choirs of Seattle Children’s Chorus will celebrate the season through their performances of glorious choral anthems and carols, telling the extraordinary story of “One Starry Night”, the night heaven came to earth. The skies over Bethlehem were lit up with unforgettable light, including one particular star that captured the attention of humble shepherds and traveling kings. The sights and sounds filling the heavens that night have been the inspiration of composers for over two thousand years.
Our 1:00p.m. concert features our younger choirs including: Poco a Poco, Brio and Intermezzo. This concert will sing the story from a younger child’s perspective. The celebration will be an interactive and family friendly performance.
Our 4:00p.m. performance featuring Arioso, Camerata and Coro Vivo presents the story in a more formal concert setting.
Come celebrate the wonders of this season through the angelic sounds of our SCC Choirs.
The choirs of Seattle Children’s Chorus will celebrate the season through their performances of glorious choral anthems and carols, telling the extraordinary story of “One Starry Night”, the night heaven came to earth. The skies over Bethlehem were lit up with unforgettable light, including one particular star that captured the attention of humble shepherds and traveling kings. The sights and sounds filling the heavens that night have been the inspiration of composers for over two thousand years.
Our 1:00p.m. concert features our younger choirs including: Poco a Poco, Brio and Intermezzo. This concert will sing the story from a younger child’s perspective. The celebration will be an interactive and family friendly performance.
Our 4:00p.m. performance featuring Arioso, Camerata and Coro Vivo presents the story in a more formal concert setting.
Come celebrate the wonders of this season through the angelic sounds of our SCC Choirs.
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Celebrate the Christmas season with traditional carols, plus less common fare. Featuring works by area composers Bern Herbolsheimer, Greg Bartholomew, Joy Porter, and Andrew Jacobson. Also music by Stephen Paulus, John Rutter, Dale Trumbore, Sean Kirchner, and others.
Holiday classics and contemporary songs, all with delightful barbershop harmony. The SeaChordsmen will be joined by two Sweet Adelines (women) Choruses and Ballard High School youth choruses in a festival of a cappella music for the season. And audience sing-alongs will probably break out. Past shows have sold out, so get your tickets as soon as you can. And check back regularly for updates.
Old traditions take on new life, and new traditions take root in Choir of the Sound’s celebration of the holiday season. From the medieval melodies of Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols," to fresh arrangements of classic Christmas songs, to carols for the new millennium by Pentatonix and Tom Lehrer, this show will bridge past and present to revive your love of the winter holidays and get you in the mood to welcome Yule!
We will be singing the following pieces in our Fall Concert Series of four concerts.
Brightest & Best - Shawn Kirchner
Sure on this Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen
Sicut Locutus Est - Bach
Magnificat in C Major - Schubert
Glory to God in the Highest - Pergolesi
For Unto Us a Child is Born - Handel
Silent Night - arr. Dan Forest
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Ground - Ola Gjeilo
Seattle Girls Choir Bringing in some Holiday Cheer. Showcasing 3 of our younger choir levels Dolcine 1st & 2nd grade, Vivissimmi 3rd & 4th Grade and we will be introducing Entrata our newest choir level.
Entrata is the new entry point for new choristers in grades 3-5. This choir will have slightly more emphasis on core musicianship and literacy skills. At the end of this year long program Entrata choristers will move into Vivissimi or Allegra (girls 10 yrs or older).
Wintersong offers an evening of reflection on our world and our place in it. In this performance that opens our second season, Vox Pacifica, directed by Wendy Bloom along with Emily Gantt on piano, will address the themes of home, peace, and connection through the music of Ola Gjeilo, Joan Szymko, Gwyneth Walker, and Stephen Paulus. The choir will also perform Benjamin Britten’s much beloved ‘Ceremony of Carols’ with guest soloist Teresa Lenssen, accompanied on harp by Alishia Joubert, along with several traditional Hanukkah songs beautifully arranged by Charles Baker. Please join our family of singers for this special December program.
Expect old favorites and new wonders, in a truly inclusive take on the meaning of our holiday traditions. And, of course, there will be an audience sing-along of holiday favorites.
This concert will feature our Melodia, Harmonia, Ragazzi and Lyrica choirs.
This concert will feature out Bel Canto Children's Choir and Cantabile Vocal Ensemble.
The Met is participating in the annual Figgy Pudding Caroling Competition to benefit the Pike Place Market Senior Center and Food Bank. Come enjoy great holiday music and vote for us to be the People's Choice award winner this year!
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 20 barbershop choruses in the world. Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our holiday shows in December!
Men and women of all sizes and shapes are welcome to join us for our fall program, starting 7:00 p.m., October 23rd at Temple B'Nai Torah, 15727 NE 4th St, Bellevue, WA
We are honored to have been chosen to perform at the Chijuly Garden and Glass Museum at Seattle Center this holiday season. Museum attendees will have the opportunity to enjoy beautiful voices in the museum's Seasonal Sundays in December.
December 9–15, 2019 (Past)
Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”
City Cantabile Choir performs the Gospel Magnificat with Gospel composer Kent Stevenson paired with traditional Celtic music. See the dance dialogue of step and tap dancers on the same stage.
We invite you for an elegant and reflective concert celebrating the holiday season.
The program includes Benjamin Britten’s stunning choral masterpiece, A Ceremony of Carols, for harp and treble voices. You'll also hear beautiful new settings of ancient carols by John Rutter, Paul Carey, and Sarah Quartel.
Featuring Prime Voci of Seattle Girls Choir, Juliet Stratton on harp, and Susanna Valleau on piano.
Dylan Thomas’ unforgettable ode to his childhood Christmases is a perfect setting for songs of the season. We have chosen outstanding arrangements of traditional carols to be sung interspersed with Thomas’ joyous storytelling as narrated by well-known actor David Pichette. Thomas' idyllic memories of childhood features exaggerated characters whose antics connect strongly with a broad audience. In this concert we’ll sing favorite music of the season from both sides of the pond. You'll hear contributions by Eleanor Daley, Melinda Bargreen, John Taverner, Hubert Bird and others in this delightful holiday program.
Hugo Distler’s Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (“The Christmas Story”) is one of the rare large-scale masterpieces for unaccompanied chorus to emerge from the twentieth century. Composing in mid-century Germany, Distler integrated elements of medieval style into his nevertheless modern musical language. Die Weihnachtsgeschichte recounts the Biblical story with a featured role for solo tenor. The other shorter works on this concert give glimpses of the Christmas story with an unusual twist, whether it be from the point of view of Joseph, an adolescent Jesus teased by other children, the shepherds regretting the holy family’s departure, or worshipful oxen in their Victorian stable.
Join us for a musical feast of carols and sacred works that has a little something for everyone. We are also excited to feature several pieces by local composer Robert Kechley.
Admission is complimentary and a free will offering will be taken to benefit Northwest Harvest.
These delightful arrangements will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart. Come help us celebrate this festive season!
Northwest Associated Arts proudly presents our annual Christmas tradition, ChristmasSounds in Burien. Five choruses totaling nearly 150 singers, ages 9 to 90, come together to sing in the season, delighting audience members of all ages! We invite you to enjoy beloved favorites like Grown-Up Christmas List and The Wexford Carol, combined with the sing-along joy of White Christmas and Deck the Halls. This festive show is perfect Christmas fun for the whole family and promise to leave you filled with the spirit of the holidays!
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Join us on Saturday, December 14, 2019 from 10am to 2pm for our annual holiday Christmas market! For the second year, l’Alliance Française de Seattle has partnered with Goethe Pop Up Seattle to bring you a true European Christmas Market experience, featuring handmade arts, crafts, and products from local artisans and businesses. Discover typical French and German holiday drinks, food and delicatessen, enjoy French and German choir performances and make sure not to miss Santa’s visit!
The Christmas Market will take place in the Chapel Performance Space (4th floor) in the Good Shepherd Center in Seattle (4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103).
The Christmas Market will benefit educational and cultural programs of l’Alliance Française de Seattle in 2020.
The Family Concert is a shorter, one-hour-long performance including much of the repertoire featured in the full-length Bainbridge Chorale holiday concert, designed to appeal to all ages. Bainbridge Youth Choir singers will sing some holiday songs as well.
The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.
Patterned after the Christmas Eve observance at King’s College in Cambridge, England, A Festival of Lessons & Carols is a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consists of nine holiday readings, each followed by a traditional carol performed by the choir, and another carol sung by the choir and audience.
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Celebrate the joy of the season with Seattle Girls Choir as they share A Gift of Song. SGC will ring in the season with a variety of seasonal songs for treble voices featuring all auditioned levels. Along with familiar tunes, you'll be introduced to some new songs that are sure to become holiday classics.
A timeless classic and a Seattle tradition. Join OSSCS as we once again present the region’s only performances of Handel’s full and unabridged score.
Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
José Rubio, baritone
A timeless classic and a Seattle tradition. Join OSSCS as we once again present the region’s only performances of Handel’s full and unabridged score.
Linda Tsatsanis, soprano
Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano
Brendan Tuohy, tenor
José Rubio, baritone
Fun and lively Chanukah Concert. 4 pm on Sunday December 15th at Temple Beth Am. Some new arrangements along with some old favorites. And, of course, our traditional bake sale with Challah and goodies galore. Families welcome. Ticket discount available for Seniors and Children. No one will be turned away for the cost of a ticket. So come and start your Chanukah celebrations at the Seattle Jewish Chorale’s December 15th Concert.
Nothing says “Happy Holidays” quite like Christmas lights twinkling off the brassy bell of a tuba! This Christmas we’re inviting a whole set of brass players to join us, also including trumpets, French horns, and trombones, plus a cohort of percussionists! We’ll give a nod to the brass-and-vocal choirs of the late Renaissance and to the British colliery (brass band) tradition, add a sprinkling of familiar Christmas tunes, and cap the concert with John Rutter’s thrilling Gloria.
The Chorale celebrates the past ten years under the baton of Artistic Director Michael Austin Miller with a retrospective of singer and audience favorite holiday works, as well as some new selections by Eric Whitacre, John Rutter and Christopher Tin. Join us to hear our favorites and sing some Christmas carols, too!
Our performances are sure to live up to this reminiscent name! Featuring fun and energetic selections such as “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Feliz Navidad,” this concert will entertain the whole family. We will be accompanied by the region’s top instrumentalists forming a rockin’ quartet, including our very own Debbie DeMiero. And, with musical offerings from Hanukkah and Kwanza, we are excited to celebrate the entire holiday season with you. It’s a time for coming together, being merry, and most of all, it’s a season for singing. Bring the whole family and be enriched together.
Prum! Ding-Dong! Pat-a-pan! Allelulia! Come see the ladies of The Lake Washington Singers as they regale you with the sounds of the season from throughout the world. Travel with us as we sing holiday repertoire from England, Russia, Liberia, Ukraine, Mexico, Germany, and more. Genres include classical, folk, spirituals, jazz, and pop and include compositions from Mozart, Britten, P.D.Q. Bach, and more.
With such a varied program, your toes will be tappin', smiles will be happen'n, and you are guaranteed to leave hummin' a tune.
This program will convey our desire for emotional simplicity. We’ll consider the origins of humility as a result of hiding, surrender, sorrow, or gratitude, and will explore contexts in which we find ourselves humble: while tenderly in love, or in need, or witnessing the majesty of nature. HUMILITY will feature writings from many sources, set to music by Gabriela Lena Frank, Stacy Garrop, Anna-Karin Klockar, David Lang, Forrest Pierce, Sarah Rimkus, Sarah Riskind, Augusta Read Thomas, and Dale Trumbore.
Kitsap Community Chorale presents the 2019 winter concert featuring special guests from the Olalla Elementary Choir.
Coming home at Christmas means a return to the heart, a return to the memories that shaped us, a return to the possibilities of making a new and better future while honoring the past. In this concert, we celebrate being wherever home is at Christmas.
We are also very excited to premier a new work by a local student composer, the prize-winner in our recent Student Composition Competition. Come join us in celebration of this new work, and of our eternal journey home.
Join us in celebrating this most joyous time of year as your local Nordic heritage choirs come together to sing their most beautiful carols and hymns. There will be fika (cookies and coffee) afterwards!
Northwest Sound is excited to present its annual holiday shows with a stirring mix of new songs and popular favorites, featuring outstanding quartets from within the chorus, introducing our new mixed voice chorus Northwest Mix, and special guests Emerald City Voices who showcase a unique blend of music and humor.
Celebrate the true holiday spirit of joy and peace with Choral Arts NW’s annual offering of traditional carols paired with intimate interludes by Seattle guitarist Robert McCaffery-Lent. Highlights this year include charming Appalachian carols by CANW Composer in Residence Kevin Siegfried, Silly Shepherds by NW composer Bern Herbolsheimer, and enchanting choral gems by Purcell, Howells, and Susan LaBarr. You won’t want to miss this treasured opportunity to step away from the bustle and into a realm of rarified beauty that is CANW’s Not One Sparrow is Forgotten.
Join us for two separate performances. Our younger choirs, Dolce and Bel Canto perform at 5:30 p.m.; our older choirs, Coro Voce, Cantabile and Forza perform at 7:30 p.m.
For centuries, humans have reveled and sought comfort in festivals of light during the darkest time of year. Join us for afternoon and evening concerts of warm, joyous choral music from winter traditions around the world. Along with cherished solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah music, we’ll share choral works from other festivals of light.
St. James Cathedral Resident Ensemble Opus 7 welcomes the holiday season with a stunning program of choral music for Advent and Christmas. This concert features Gerald Finzi’s Magnificat, selections from Frank Ferko’s Hildegard Motets and Benjamin Britten’s Christ’s Nativity, John Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of Light, Wisconsin composer Nancy Wertsch’s Antiphon for God the Father, and music by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. Pacific Northwest composers will be represented by Jessica French, Peter Hallock and Opus 7’s own composer-in-residence, John Muehleisen. Please join us as we present sublime choral sounds of the season with Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble under the baton of Artistic Director Loren Pontén.
Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.
Reserved Seating is available by advance donation.
Suggested donation is $40 in advance for Preferred Seating, $25 in advance, $30 at the door for General Seating, $20 in advance, $24 at the door for Seniors and students donate as able at the door with student ID.
Brighten up your holidays with this festive concert from The Northwest Firelight Chorale! Our ever popular holiday program will include stunning arrangements of seasonal favorites, a glorious gospel showstopper, a festive sing-along, and the kind of joyful surprises that we are known for!
We will be singing the following pieces in our Fall Concert Series of four concerts.
Brightest & Best - Shawn Kirchner
Sure on this Shining Night - Morten Lauridsen
Sicut Locutus Est - Bach
Magnificat in C Major - Schubert
Glory to God in the Highest - Pergolesi
For Unto Us a Child is Born - Handel
Silent Night - arr. Dan Forest
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
The Ground - Ola Gjeilo
Join us for wonderful holiday and seasonal songs at Seattle First Baptist Church. $20 suggested donation. Refreshments to follow.
December 16–22, 2019 (Past)
Kick off the holidays with the merry voices of SMC! We come a-caroling with a rocking and rolling celebration for the jolliest time of year. It’s everything you know and love about this naughty and nice annual tradition. Featuring "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," "Good King Wenceslas,” and “Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney.”
We invite you for an elegant and reflective concert celebrating the holiday season.
The program includes Benjamin Britten’s stunning choral masterpiece, A Ceremony of Carols, for harp and treble voices. You'll also hear beautiful new settings of ancient carols by John Rutter, Paul Carey, and Sarah Quartel.
Featuring Prime Voci of Seattle Girls Choir, Juliet Stratton on harp, and Susanna Valleau on piano.
The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.
Patterned after the Christmas Eve observance at King’s College in Cambridge, England, A Festival of Lessons & Carols is a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consists of nine holiday readings, each followed by a traditional carol performed by the choir, and another carol sung by the choir and audience.
With a mix of the fun and the sublime, the Ensign Symphony & Chorus celebrate the Christmas season with an uplifting look at this festive season. Come to hear your Christmas favorites, be touched by tenderness, be taken on a musicological journey through the twelve days of Christmas, and experience an audience sing-along.
Savor the rich culture of the Americas in this program featuring over a dozen different North, Central, and Southern American composers. Argentinian composer Fernando Moruja’s rarely heard Piezas Sacras sets the stage with a message of light and hope. Several pieces with percussion as well as Spanish and Haitian creole holiday texts will get the audience tapping their feet. North American composers Barnum, Lauridsen and Runestad offer prayers for victims and for immigrants. We offer this concert in solidarity, with messages of hospitality, light, love, and hope for a better tomorrow!
The OK Chorale is joined by All Present, a song circle for people with memory loss to celebrate the holidays with songs.
For centuries, humans have reveled and sought comfort in festivals of light during the darkest time of year. Join us for afternoon and evening concerts of warm, joyous choral music from winter traditions around the world. Along with cherished solstice, Christmas, and Hanukkah music, we’ll share choral works from other festivals of light.
Brighten up your holidays with this festive concert from The Northwest Firelight Chorale! Our ever popular holiday program will include stunning arrangements of seasonal favorites, a glorious gospel showstopper, a festive sing-along, and the kind of joyful surprises that we are known for!
Quickly becoming an audience favorite, this annual holiday program of choral gems is designed to relax the soul in what is sometimes called the busiest time of year. You don't want to miss this comforting set of both sacred and secular music for wintertime. Bring a cozy loved one and watch your stress melt away.
The Seattle Choral Company is expanding its roster for the following concert events:
Schubert's "Mass No. 6 in E-Flat" - March 14, 2020
Rachmaninoff's "Divine Liturgy" - June 6, 2020
Tenors and basses are especially encouraged. Please refer to our auditions page online and submit the online application. By appointment.
December 23–29, 2019 (Past)
The Northwest Boychoir celebrates its 41-year tradition with the presentation of its 2019 A Festival of Lessons & Carols concert series featuring eight regional performances in December. These holiday concerts showcase the 90-member combined chorus of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle.
Patterned after the Christmas Eve observance at King’s College in Cambridge, England, A Festival of Lessons & Carols is a holiday tradition for thousands of families in the Puget Sound region. This classical performance consists of nine holiday readings, each followed by a traditional carol performed by the choir, and another carol sung by the choir and audience.
This holiday program is sure to delight and bring a smile! Opus 7 performs a concert of light and fanciful settings of Christmas carols and holiday favorites. The program will include selections of Alfred Burt carols and arrangements by Sir David Willcocks, William Walton, Lajos Bárdos, Stephen Paulus, and many others. Please join us for this journey through Christmas traditions around the world.
Please visit opus7.org and our Facebook page: Opus7Seattle for more information.
Preferred Seating: $40 in advance
General Seating: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Seniors: $20 in advance, $24 at the door
Students: Pay as able at the door with student ID
The Seattle Choral Company is expanding its roster for the following concert events:
Schubert's "Mass No. 6 in E-Flat" - March 14, 2020
Rachmaninoff's "Divine Liturgy" - June 6, 2020
Tenors and basses are especially encouraged. Please refer to our auditions page online and submit the online application. By appointment.
Take part performing Handel's Messiah on Dec. 28th at our annual Messiah Sing and Play Along! All are welcome to participate (or just listen!) in this fun and joyful annual event. Come sing or play through the entire piece with fellow music lovers in the community. Refreshments and snacks will be available.
A suggested donation of $15 per person at the door helps raise funds for the Chorale’s future performance costs, allowing us to continue the honor of offering concerts with complimentary admission.
Scores will be available for loan, or please bring you own if you have one (Schirmer or Watkins Shaw compatible).
Instrumentalists, please bring you own stand, and contact our director in advance at 206-362-5731 if you'll need to borrow a score.
December 30, 2019 – January 5, 2020 (Past)
Kulshan Chorus takes the stage at the Mount Baker Theatre on January 4, 2020. Our performance, "Light is Returning" shows how hope transcends even the darkest hour. Artistic Director, Dustin Willetts, has chosen several songs which present stories of triumph over adversity. Join us as we sing works by award winning-composer Jake Runestad, alongside fabulous others such as Craig Hella Johnson, Pentatonix, & Gawthrop. It will be an uplifting evening to remember!
The Seattle Choral Company is expanding its roster for the following concert events:
Schubert's "Mass No. 6 in E-Flat" - March 14, 2020
Rachmaninoff's "Divine Liturgy" - June 6, 2020
Tenors and basses are especially encouraged. Please refer to our auditions page online and submit the online application. By appointment.
The Seattle Chamber Singers will hear auditions for all voice types on Saturday morning, January 4, 2020 from 10:00 am to noon, at Faith Lutheran Church. Please email auditions@osscs.org to set up an appointment.
Repertoire for the remainder of our season includes Bach's "Saint Matthew Passion" and Ravel's "Daphnis et Chloe", both performed with our partner, Orchestra Seattle, as well as an a program of choral works by Seattle-area composers in partnership with Columbia Choirs.
See http://www.osscs.org/members/scs for details of our rehearsal and concert schedule.
January 6–12, 2020 (Past)
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
We will be welcoming new singers in our youth choirs during January to fill any available vacancies. We work with school-aged singers, 5-18, in our five individual choirs. Contact us at olympiayouthchorus@outlook.com to schedule an audition.
We are particularly recruiting young men with changed voices for our Forza Men's Choir. They rehearse on Mondays, 7:00-8:30 p.m. under the direction of Dr. Steve Danielson. Our first rehearsal in January following the break is on Monday, January 6th.
Auditions and rehearsals are held at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, 1515 Harrison Avenue NW, Olympia.
Any youth ages 8-18 are invited to audition for Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, or Premier Choirs. Auditions include test for range and tone. The Artistic Director will teach a short segment and see how well the singer can hold their part. Youth with any level of experience are invited to audition!
If you are looking for a place to sing that will challenge and satisfy you at the same time, NW Chorale may be just the place for you. The Chorale currently averages 60 singers from the greater Seattle area. Members come from all walks of life, but have one thing in common – a love of music.
Spring Rehearsals begin on January 6th, 2020 and take place Monday nights (no rehearsal on MLK Day) 7:00-9:30 PM at Lamb of God Lutheran Church, 12509 27th Ave. NE, Seattle. Dues/donation $75 per person for the Spring Season (scholarships available, inquire at front desk). Dues assist us with the costs of concert and rehearsal venues, orchestra, soloists, etc.
This exciting spring season includes the Bach Mass in B Minor.
Due to the nature of the music, members are expected to be able to read music, blend with their section, and keep up with practicing and rehearsals. Auditions are held informally (so you are just singing with your section!).
Even if you haven’t sung since your high school or college choral days, never fear - we are a friendly, inclusive, and active organization. So ... come and sing with us!
The Met will be starting its spring season in January, with auditions scheduled for Monday, January 6th. If you are interested in auditioning, and sing with an adult treble voice (regardless of your gender identity), please contact us at gleeful.jenny.murray@gmail.com' target='_blank' rel='noowner'>gleeful.jenny.murray@gmail.com to schedule your time! Easy peasy - you'll go through a gentle audition with our director, Allan Andrews. Check out the Met at www.seattlegleeclubs.org/themet. We look forward to meeting you.
Come sing with us!
Rehearsals for our Spring concert begin on Sunday, January 12 at 6:00 p.m.
"How High the Moon" is the theme for our May 9th concert.
Discover the only French-language choir in Seattle!
Native or non-native French speaker, star chorister, or new singer, you are all welcome.
This open house is a perfect occasion to meet our choir director and fellow singers before signing up with the choir.
No registration necessary. Looking forward to welcoming you in 2020!
Location:
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave N
Room #204 (main floor)
Seattle, WA 98103
More info about the choir schedule and registration: https://afseattle.extranet-aec.com/classes/detail?courseId=3658
Membership recruitment is every Thursday in January starting January 9th, 2020. Membership is $40.
January 13–19, 2020 (Past)
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
Any youth ages 8-18 are invited to audition for Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, or Premier Choirs. Auditions include test for range and tone. The Artistic Director will teach a short segment and see how well the singer can hold their part. Youth with any level of experience are invited to audition!
If you are looking for a place to sing that will challenge and satisfy you at the same time, NW Chorale may be just the place for you. The Chorale currently averages 60 singers from the greater Seattle area. Members come from all walks of life, but have one thing in common – a love of music.
Spring Rehearsals begin on January 6th, 2020 and take place Monday nights (no rehearsal on MLK Day) 7:00-9:30 PM at Lamb of God Lutheran Church, 12509 27th Ave. NE, Seattle. Dues/donation $75 per person for the Spring Season (scholarships available, inquire at front desk). Dues assist us with the costs of concert and rehearsal venues, orchestra, soloists, etc.
This exciting spring season includes the Bach Mass in B Minor.
Due to the nature of the music, members are expected to be able to read music, blend with their section, and keep up with practicing and rehearsals. Auditions are held informally (so you are just singing with your section!).
Even if you haven’t sung since your high school or college choral days, never fear - we are a friendly, inclusive, and active organization. So ... come and sing with us!
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Interested in singing with the Seattle Peace Chorus? Come find out more before you audition!
If you’re part of the arts community or involved in supporting causes that align with our justice mission, let’s discuss collaboration!
Please join us Monday, January 13, 2020 for an open house potluck followed by our first 2020 rehearsal. Meet choir members, talk with Director Fred West and hear about upcoming concerts and events. You are welcome to stay for our first rehearsal for the Missa Solemnis concert and experience first-hand the Seattle Peace Chorus. Auditions may be scheduled then.
Schedule & location:
Monday, January 13, 2020
6 pm - Meet & Greet social + Potluck
7 - 9:30 pm - Rehearsal
Keystone Congregational Church - 5019 Keystone Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103
No registration required. If you plan to attend, please RSVP via email to: auditions@seattlepeacechorus.org. Include your name and reason for attending. If you are interested in auditioning, please complete an audition request form in advance, https://seattlepeacechorus.org/join/audition-request/.
See you there!
Membership recruitment is every Thursday in January starting January 9th, 2020. Membership is $40.
January 20–26, 2020 (Past)
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
Any youth ages 8-18 are invited to audition for Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, or Premier Choirs. Auditions include test for range and tone. The Artistic Director will teach a short segment and see how well the singer can hold their part. Youth with any level of experience are invited to audition!
Interested in singing with the Seattle Peace Chorus? Come find out more before you audition!
If you’re part of the arts community or involved in supporting causes that align with our justice mission, let’s discuss collaboration!
Please join us Monday, January 20, 2020 for an open house potluck followed by our first 2020 rehearsal. Meet choir members, talk with Director Fred West and hear about upcoming concerts and events. You are welcome to stay for our first rehearsal for the Missa Solemnis concert and experience first-hand the Seattle Peace Chorus. Auditions may be scheduled then.
Schedule & location:
Monday, January 20, 2020
6 pm - Meet & Greet social + Potluck
7 - 9:30 pm - Rehearsal
Keystone Congregational Church - 5019 Keystone Pl N, Seattle, WA 98103
No registration required. If you plan to attend, please RSVP via email to: auditions@seattlepeacechorus.org. Include your name and reason for attending. If you are interested in auditioning, please complete an audition request form in advance, https://seattlepeacechorus.org/join/audition-request/.
See you there!
The Magnolia Chorale begins rehearsals for its 30th anniversary celebration! Interested singers with choral experience are warmly invited to join us. Bring a potluck dish and your enthusiasm. No audition required. Social gathering at 6 pm, sing for our director so she can place you at 6:30, rehearsal at 7. Send an email to jmkent18@gmail.com so we can welcome you. Seeking all voices, especially basses.
Membership recruitment is every Thursday in January starting January 9th, 2020. Membership is $40.
January 27 – February 2, 2020 (Past)
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.
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
Any youth ages 8-18 are invited to audition for Intermezzo, Schola Voce, Cantare, Cambiata, or Premier Choirs. Auditions include test for range and tone. The Artistic Director will teach a short segment and see how well the singer can hold their part. Youth with any level of experience are invited to audition!
If you are looking for a place to sing that will challenge and satisfy you at the same time, NW Chorale may be just the place for you. The Chorale currently averages 60 singers from the greater Seattle area. Members come from all walks of life, but have one thing in common – a love of music.
Spring Rehearsals begin on January 6th, 2020 and take place Monday nights (no rehearsal on MLK Day) 7:00-9:30 PM at Lamb of God Lutheran Church, 12509 27th Ave. NE, Seattle. Dues/donation $75 per person for the Spring Season (scholarships available, inquire at front desk). Dues assist us with the costs of concert and rehearsal venues, orchestra, soloists, etc.
This exciting spring season includes the Bach Mass in B Minor.
Due to the nature of the music, members are expected to be able to read music, blend with their section, and keep up with practicing and rehearsals. Auditions are held informally (so you are just singing with your section!).
Even if you haven’t sung since your high school or college choral days, never fear - we are a friendly, inclusive, and active organization. So ... come and sing with us!
Mägi Ensemble invites everyone to come for a night of music, drinks, food and fun! Performances by the Mägi Ensemble along with fun events to get to know the singers and the community.
Membership recruitment is every Thursday in January starting January 9th, 2020. Membership is $40.
February 3–9, 2020 (Past)
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.
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
You are cordially invited to Your Mixtape, a night of dinner, music, and fundraising at our 12th annual Cabaret and Silent Auction! Indulge in the Dessert Dash, participate in the Wine Pull, and bid on your favorite auction packages while members of all NWAA choirs perform their favorite solos, duets, and ensemble numbers from the days of making mix tapes in the 80s and 90s! We hope you can join us for this stellar evening of raising funds for the performing arts in our community! (Seat reservations for this event will open in January 2020 via phone only.)
February 10–16, 2020 (Past)
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!
Celebrate Ancora's 16th anniversary year of singing beautiful, diverse, challenging music with the very people who support and nurture us along the way! Come and be our Valentine and enjoy beautiful music in a party atmosphere while supporting our future!
A decked out Northwest Sound Quartet is ready to serenade your Sweetheart on Valentine’s Day. We guarantee the recipient an unforgettable experience. Plus, your donations will help Northwest Sound continue to sing the music you love.
Your Singing Valentines includes:
- Two love songs in the Barbershop style, performed by a quartet in sharp suits
- A red rose
- A personalized Valentine’s Day card
Email our Singing Valentine Coordinator or call him at (253)-797-5007 to reserve your preferred time and place.
February 17–23, 2020 (Past)
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.
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
February 24 – March 1, 2020 (Past)
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.
March 2–8, 2020 (Past)
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.
Ancora is currently seeking new members for our Spring Season. Rehearsals are Thursdays, 7:15-9:30pm, on Capitol Hill.
Ancora is a chamber choir under the direction of Freddie Coleman. We sing at a high level in a variety of genres but our main staple is art “classical" music with a large amount of a cappella songs. Ancora sings with a clear tone, without vibrato.
If you are interested in auditioning, please submit an audition form via our website: www.ancorachoir.org
Join us for an inspiring, fun-filled evening to benefit Northwest Girlchoir. This lively event includes dinner with fellow Northwest Girlchoir supporters, a silent auction, a dessert dash, a chance to raise your paddle, and moving performances by Northwest Girlchoir Ensemble and special guest '92 Alum Katie Diamond.
Donations raised at Spring Fling benefit all of Northwest Girlchoir’s programs, as well as chorister scholarships.
Corporate Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact us for more information.
March 9–15, 2020 (Past)
*** 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.
What is the SGC Cabaret?
Cabaret is one of SGC’s biggest fundraising events of the year. It’s an evening to celebrate SGC with other choir families, friends, and alumnae. Expect drinks, food, auction items, a dessert dash, and so much wonderful music!
We see Cabaret as a chance to let our hair down a little. The program is made up of performances by Prime Voci and Sorella...but who knows? Maybe there will be some surprise guest performances too! Musical selections will come from many genres. It will be loads of fun!
There is no official dress code. Guests tend to trend towards business casual, but you can come dressed to the nines if you like!
***Given the recommendations from Seattle and King County Public Health pertaining to COVID-19, the Northwest Firelight Chorale will be postponing performances of our fundraiser show Road Trip. But rest assured, Road Trip will be performed in its entirety at a later date! It’s a fabulous show and we wouldn’t want you to miss it!***
Get your kicks on Route 66, leave your heart in San Francisco, and start spreadin' the news because you are invited to join us on a musical journey across the lower 48…dinner-theater style! Our annual fundraiser program will feature iconic songs inspired by the cities and states we know and love! Spend an evening supporting our mission with an elegant catered dinner, silent auction, wine bar and more.
March 16–22, 2020 (Past)
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.
***Given the recommendations from Seattle and King County Public Health pertaining to COVID-19, the Northwest Firelight Chorale will be postponing performances of our fundraiser show Road Trip. But rest assured, Road Trip will be performed in its entirety at a later date! It’s a fabulous show and we wouldn’t want you to miss it!***
Get your kicks on Route 66, leave your heart in San Francisco, and start spreadin' the news because you are invited to join us on a musical journey across the lower 48…dinner-theater style! Our annual fundraiser program will feature iconic songs inspired by the cities and states we know and love! Spend an evening supporting our mission with an elegant catered dinner, silent auction, wine bar and more.
Come to the Swedish Club's Friday night dinner and hear our special soloists! The bar opens at 5:30 for cocktails. The dinner is $25/person for meatballs (or veggie balls) with all the trimmings. This special meal is prepared by locally famous Nordic chef, Lexi, and will feature a decadent dessert to close out the evening. Get your tickets through the Swedish Club at 206-283-1090.
March 23–29, 2020 (Past)
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.
March 30 – April 5, 2020
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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Join for a night of fun and camaraderie at The Four Seasons in Enumclaw! We are fundraising for our Washington DC Memorial Day Tour where we will be joining choirs from across the nation to sing in the Memorial Day Parade and at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts! Signature drink: D.C. Sour!
April 13–19, 2020
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.
April 20–26, 2020
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. More details coming soon.
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.
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.
Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
April 27 – May 3, 2020
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!
Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
May 4–10, 2020
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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Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
May 11–17, 2020
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!
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.
This, our 11th annual gala event, will be an amazing evening of celebrating our mission to: "inspire, enrich and educate." Wonderful music and entertainment will be provided by members of Cora Voce and special guests. The evening includes online opportunities to support Cora Voce. The event online event will begin 5:30PM
Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
May 18–24, 2020
Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
May 25–31, 2020
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!”
Members of the Northwest Chamber Chorus have been singing for a long time. Most of us started in choir when we were in high school or earlier, and now, we truly can’t “Keep from Singing”. We'd like to pass that torch on to the next generation. In this program we are joined by students from the Tacoma School of the Arts (SOTA). We will sing side-by-side with these young musical spirits, and we expect that they will teach us as much or more than we teach them. Our collaboration includes one performance at Phinney Ridge Lutheran and one at Tacoma’s Rialto Theatre, just one block from SOTA. Featured composers will include Giselle Wyers, Margaret King, Sarah Quartel, Volckmar Leisring, Jake Runestad, Pärt Uusberg, and Randall Thompson. You’ll hear music from Zimbabwe, Estonia, South Africa, Venezuela, the German Renaissance, and Washington state. Join us as we celebrate the progress and the talents of tomorrow’s singers.
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.”
Singing Lessons For Men And Women!
Learn To Sing American A Cappella
Northwest Sound holds a free six-week workshop once or twice every year called sing! Sing! SING! to teach singing in the barbershop style.
It's a easy and fun way to see what it's like to sing on the risers with Northwest Sound, one of the top 15 barbershop choruses in the world! Program graduates are encouraged to join the chorus on stage for our spring shows in June!
June 1–7, 2020
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.
DATE CHANGE to Saturday, June 6, 2020.
Choir of the Sound has made the difficult decision to postpone our Bottles 'n Bites Entertainment & Auction to Saturday, June 6, 2020 (originally April 4).
Bottles 'n Bites is our largest fundraising effort and is integral to the financial well-being of our organization. We have a strong desire to hold this event, but we realize that in the ever-changing landscape of COVID-19, this new date can still only be considered tentative.
Great music and a wonderful community are at the heart of Choir of the Sound. So why wouldn't we utilize those strengths to celebrate this premier community choir and help it grow to be the best it can be? That's exactly what we do through our Bottles 'n Bites fundraiser!
Please join us at the Shoreline Elks Club for the eleventh annual Bottles 'n Bites. You will enjoy an evening of local craft beer, incredible wines, and delicious treats. You'll also be able to bid on unique experiences and items and enjoy special music performances.
Bottles 'n Bites is always a blast--don't miss it!
June 8–14, 2020
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.
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
June 15–21, 2020
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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.
June 22–28, 2020
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.
An original musical set in Seattle, with songs sung in the Barbershop style. Save the date for a musical adventure!!
July 6–12, 2020
This spring, SilverSounds Northwest is thrilled to celebrate its 10-year anniversary with I Love Rock & Roll! What better way to commemorate a decade of fun than by revisiting their greatest hits! Favorites by The Righteous Brothers, Bob Seger, The Four Seasons, Billy Joel, and The Beach Boys are guaranteed to have your toes tappin’. And, of course, no SilverSounds show would be complete without the dancing, storytelling, and hijinks for which they are known! This year, SilverSounds extends an invitation to former members to join them onstage for several beloved favorites. It’s going to be a weekend you don’t want to miss!
PLEASE NOTE: this event has been rescheduled from the original April 2020 date due to COVID-19.
August 3–9, 2020
For experienced musicians entering grades 6 through 12.
Sun-Sat, August 9-15, 2020
Camp concludes with a Family Concert on Saturday morning.
2020 Camp Theme: "Let the games begin!"
Choir Camp OLYMPICS 2020
Citius, Altius, Fortius (faster, higher, stronger)
Join us for our 10th Anniversary in 2020! Step back in time to ancient Greece and the first Olympic Games! Start planning as cabins become the Greek City-States, competing in traditional (& creative, new) Olympic sports to see who will win the gold, silver and bronze! We will even have a toga party!
Do you love to sing?
Then here’s the opportunity for you! Imagine yourself spending a week in the sun, hanging out with other young musicians, and singing to your heart’s content! Founded in 2010, Northwest Choir Camps is committed to offering you the best-ever summer camp experience. You will be challenged to become a better musician within a relaxed summer camp atmosphere. Our festivals and summer camps draw an outstanding group of young people who are dedicated to working hard to create something beautiful. Join us for a week to remember! Previous music experience and a love of singing are necessary.
2020 Honor Choir Summer Camp includes:
- Intense daily rehearsals focusing on challenging and rewarding repertoire.
- Musical and personal growth: strengthen your choral skills while in the company of other young like-minded musicians.
- Family concert at end of the week to showcase the music we have learned.
- Daily music class intensives. Each camper will attend two of the following classes daily: beginning music theory, intermediate music theory, advanced music theory, music analysis, ear training, music history, rhythm workshop, conducting.
- Daily cabin competitions - relays, messy challenges, team building projects and more.
- A dedicated staff of experienced choral musicians (even the counselors!).
- Afternoon free time to spend in traditional camp activities of your choice: arts & crafts, swimming in the outdoor heated pool, high ropes course, climbing tower, miniature golf, canoeing, mountain boarding and archery/BB guns. (all arts & crafts and at least one pool day are included in camp tuition, all other special activities require additional fee)
- Overnight lodging – comfortable, modern cabins housing 6-12 per cabin (boys and girls housed separately).
- Cafeteria style meals provided by professional camp cooks - vegetarian, dairy free and gluten free options available on request. The camp kitchen is nut free. Campers with extreme food needs may bring supplemental food.
- Camp T-shirt and all music for you to keep.
- Nightly social activities with hearty snack provided - Movie night, Skit night, Talent Show, Bonfire and more!
Register online.
August 24–30, 2020
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November 2–8, 2020
A lot of great music as the Sound Singers walk into a new decade of friendship through music. Special guests include The Market Street Singers. And, as always, they will have their famous Japanese bake sale!
December 7–13, 2020
9th Annual Spectrum Choral Academy Christmas Concert featuring all choir levels, singers ages 5-20. Concert ends at dusk with Silent Night sung by candlelight.
The Market Street Singers present holidays favorites and new surprises, as well as our ever popular sing-along.
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