Seattle Sings! Choral Festival: Day 3
Free (Free)
Vijay Singh — Selected works
Giselle Wyers — Selected works
Brian Galante — Selected works
Frederick West — Selected works
The Greater Seattle Choral Consortium is proud to announce our second Seattle SINGS! Choral Festival to be held on October 8, 9, and 10. The GSCC is a non-profit service organization which provides advocacy, support, resource sharing, and outreach to more than sixty choruses throughout the Puget Sound region. In keeping with our mission and vision, the Consortium is proud to gather together 34 of our member choirs in a three-day event of public performances including featured works of four Northwest composers.
Saturday schedule:
10:00am – Seattle SeaChordsmen
10:20am – The Mägi Ensemble
10:40am – Mirinesse Women's Choir
11:00am – Con Brio Women's Choir
11:20am – Ancora
11:40am – Group sing / reading
12:00pm – Intermission
1:00pm – Master Chorus Eastside
1:20pm – Bainbridge Chorale
1:40pm – Ilumni Men's Chorale
2:00pm – Group sing / reading
2:20pm – Rainier Chorale
2:40pm – Cantabile of Skagit Valley
3:00pm – Choir of the Sound
3:20pm – Group sing / reading
3:40pm – Intermission
4:00pm – Cascadian Chorale
4:20pm – Northwest Chorale
4:40pm – Bellevue Chamber Chorus
5:00pm – Group sing / reading
5:20pm – Intermission
6:00pm – The Everett Chorale
6:20pm – The Esoterics
6:40pm – Kirkland Choral Society
7:00pm – Seattle Pro Musica
7:20pm – Intermission
7:40pm – Seattle Choral Company
8:00pm – Cora Voce
8:20pm – Northwest Chamber
8:40pm – Choral Arts
9:00pm – Closing
The 34 choirs will begin performing on Thursday night at 7:00 pm, and will feature choirs presenting heritage, world music, folk, gospel, and classical music. Our Friday night performances begin again at 7:00 pm and feature six choral ensembles that begin with the sounds of two of Seattle’s premier children’s choirs and finish with modern choral music. Our Saturday performances begin at 10:00 am and finish at 9:00 pm, with choral styles ranging from barbershop to some of Seattle’s professional and semi-professional choirs.
At intervals on Saturday we will be featuring the music of our four Composers in Residence: Reginald Unterseher, Vijay Singh, Giselle Wyers, and Brian Gallante. Each composer will provide a work to be sung by a mass choir brought together from the performing ensembles that day. The composers will lead the massed choir they have chosen in a rehearsal in front of our audience, and then lead the choir in a final performance of their work. This year we are also pleased to announce the gift of a new anthem for the festival, a setting of “How Can I Keep from Singing” set for the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium by Seattle Composer Frederick West. The anthem will provide both our participating choirs and our audience with an opportunity to sing together at intervals throughout the festival.
We encourage you to come to part or all of the festival, to come and go as you please, and to simply enjoy the wide range of choral music you will be able to experience. There is NO COST for admission.