GSCC Weekly Featured Members
Each week we pick one of our member organizations to highlight. Below you can find our current pick plus a history of past selections.
Featured Member for the Week of January 23, 2023
The mission of the Seattle Peace Chorus (SPC) is to communicate through music the desire for a just and peaceful world; to consistently present SPC’s message through choral excellence and nonviolent activism; to celebrate life in all its diversity; to build and sustain harmonious relationships and cultural bridges locally and globally. The Seattle Peace Chorus was founded in 1983 under the leadership of Helen Lauritzen (SPC Director, 1983-2000). (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of January 16, 2023
Our mission is to provide a vocal space free of gendered expectations, by and for Transgender and Nonbinary singers, to explore and express ourselves through music.
Featured Member for the Week of January 9, 2023
We are employees, retirees, family members, and friends of the Boeing Company, serving as "ambassadors of song and good will" and sharing our love of music in the Puget Sound Region. We are a premier concert choral group performing for local churches, retirement homes, and assisted living facilities in the area. Every few years we bring our concert repertoire on tour to Europe. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of January 2, 2023
Since 1987, The Sound has delighted audiences throughout the Puget Sound region with concerts that bring joy to the heart, a clap to the hands, a tear to the eye, and a stomp to the feet. The typical menu of a program by The Sound will include an entree of Negro Spirituals sung a cappella and seasoned with anecdotes for flavor, augmented with side dishes of dance and/or poetry, and topped off with a generous dessert of Gospel. It is truly a "soul food" meal designed to uplift and strengthen the spirit. On Feb. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of December 26, 2022
RADIANCE is a Seattle-based professional vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of American choral music. The group primarily focuses on performing contemporary works by living composers, including local Pacific Northwest composers. Radiance also performs music from the shapenote and Shaker traditions to celebrate and connect the roots of American choral music to contemporary works.
Featured Member for the Week of December 19, 2022
Seattle Girls Choir provides a robust education in the choral arts, helping girls build skills to succeed in life, and enriching the cultural landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Founded in 1982, Seattle Girls Choir provides a comprehensive and progressive choral education with an emphasis on vocal technique, musical literacy, and ensemble performance. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of December 12, 2022
Puget Soundworks is an all-gender, LGBTQIA+ centered community chorus serving the Puget Sound region. We are here to make the world a kinder, more inclusive place, one song at a time.
Learn more about the chorus and listen to our music at pugetsoundworks.org.
Featured Member for the Week of December 5, 2022
Harmonia is a vocal-instrumental ensemble unique among Pacific Northwest musical organizations, combining a 70-member orchestra with a 55-voice chorus to perform oratorio masterworks alongside symphonic and a cappella repertoire, world premieres and chamber music. An average Harmonia season includes two performances of Handel's Messiah (unabridged), a major Bach oratorio, and at least 2 other major choral-orchestral works, often world premieres. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of November 28, 2022
The City Cantabile Choir, founded in 1981 by Frederick N West, is a non-profit choral group that performs a diverse selection of classical, contemporary, original, and ethnic music (such as Andean, Celtic, Gospel and Baroque ensembles) to promote cultural unity and environmental awareness. We have partnered with other advocacy groups for almost 20 years to celebrate our region's iconic orca whales with our annual San Juan OrcaSing.
Featured Member for the Week of November 21, 2022
Seattle Children's Chorus is a choral arts organization dedicated to fostering musical excellence in the development of young singers. Founded in 1989 by artistic director, Kris Mason, the Chorus offers a quality, performance-based vocal education and selects repertoire of highest caliber from all genres of choral music with a special emphasis on sacred literature. SCC offers six levels of instruction. Poco a Poco is SCC's early music education and appreciation program for boys and girls ages 3-6. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of November 14, 2022
We are a mixed chamber group of singers skipping out for a month during the summer to explore new genres and experience small ensemble singing. Each year, Summer Fling Singers chooses a different style or composer of a cappella music to focus upon. Once decided, a director is selected to coach us through the repertoire and conduct us in concert. Past seasons have featured coaching by notable local directors including Laurie Betts Hughes, Markdavin Obenza, Gary Cannon, Heather MacLaughlin Garbes, and Anne Lyman. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of November 7, 2022
The Bainbridge Chorale, founded in 1971, is an auditioned community choral performance company. Its mission is to enrich and inspire its singers, audience and the community by sharing the transcendent power of choral music. The Chorale presents three December and two Spring concerts, plus a December Family Concert. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of October 31, 2022
Mission: Our voices transform society through innovative and entertaining programs that build community, illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ people and their allies, expand inclusion, and inspire justice.
Vision: A more harmonious world that celebrates the unique identities and talents of all people.
Seattle Women's Chorus Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SeattleWomensChorus
Featured Member for the Week of October 24, 2022
Founded in 2012, Spectrum Choral Academy is a 50-voice community choir program for children, teens and college age singers with the purpose of inspiring young people through quality music education and performances. Weekly rehearsals (including music theory instruction for all singers!) are held Saturdays from Sep-June in Gig Harbor, WA. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of October 17, 2022
Since its inception, Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble has established a reputation for continually featuring a diverse range of new and rarely performed works, along with time-honored classics of choral literature. Formed in 1992 as a professional choral group by founding director Loren Pontén, Opus 7 specializes in 19th- through 21st-century a cappella choral music. As a resident ensemble of St. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of October 10, 2022
Cappella Romana presents its 31st annual season in 2022-23. Cappella Romana is a professional vocal ensemble that performs early and contemporary sacred classical music in the Christian traditions of East and West. The ensemble is known especially for its presentations and recordings of medieval Byzantine chant (the Eastern sibling of Gregorian chant), Greek and Russian Orthodox choral works, and other sacred music that expresses the historic traditions of a unified Christian inheritance. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of October 3, 2022
The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble that is dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary a cappella choral settings of poetry, philosophy, and spiritual writings from around the world. While cultivating artistic expression and cultural understanding among its singers and audience alike, The Esoterics aspires to reflect the beauty, power, and significance that are inherent in the music of our time.
Featured Member for the Week of September 26, 2022
Comprised of the Northwest Boychoir and Vocalpoint! Seattle, the Northwest Choirs provides music education and performance opportunities to young people. Annually, 200 young singers enroll in our premier music education programs. These students -- boys ages 6 to 18, and girls 12 to 18 -- come from all corners of the Puget Sound region representing 115 diverse public and private elementary, middle and high schools. (Read More)
Featured Member for the Week of September 19, 2022
OUR MISSION
The Seattle Choral Company is committed to being a voice of excellence in choral singing --in all its diversity--as an experience that builds and enriches community.
Featured Member for the Week of September 12, 2022
Redmond Chorale is a semi-auditioned, SATB, adult-voiced choir performing a variety of choral literature in three concert seasons every year.
Through excellent achievement and education in choral arts, Redmond Chorale raises funds for charitable causes in and around Redmond, as members of the choir connect with each other and with the community.