Friday, March 2, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)

Geoffrey Boers, director – UW Chamber Singers
Giselle Wyers, director – University Chorale

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Canticum Calamitatis Maritimae
Pärt Uusberg – Prayer for the Children
Vaclovas Augustinas – Prayer of St. Martin for double choir
Uģis Prauliņš – Missa Rignesis
Pärt Uusberg – Õhtul (Evening)
Pärt Uusberg – Teomehe-laul (Serf's Song)
Cyrillus Kreek – Taaveti Laul No. 104
Laura Jēkabsone – Dindaru Dandaru
Ārijs Šķepasts – Līgo
Vaclovas Augustinas – Anoj Pusėj Dunojėlio

The Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present a concert celebrating the centennial of the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, presented in collaboration with the UW Baltic Studies Program. The program, which will be attended by the ambassadors of all three countries, features works from the leading composers of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the last century and today.

About UW University Chorale

The Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Chorale is an audi­tioned advanced under­grad­u­ate ensem­ble of music and non-music majors from the Seat­tle cam­pus. UW Chorale appears annually as a guest ensem­ble with the Seat­tle Sym­phony, and has sung in joint con­certs with Revalia Male Cham­ber Choir in Esto­nia, and for the Princess of Swe­den. UW Chorale appeared at the Lat­vian Song Fes­ti­val in Riga, dur­ing the sum­mer of 2013 and the Estonian Festival of Song and Dance in 2019, as one of the only Amer­i­can choirs.

https://music.washington.edu/ensembles/university-chorale