Northwest Solstice: A Choral Arts Wintertide Concert
Pay-what-you-can from $1 ($25 suggested donation)
- Serena Chin, piano
- Jamie Sanidad, oboe & English horn
Emily Lau — Selected works
Andrew Jacobson — Selected works
Katerina Gimon — Selected works
During the blue nights of winter, Choral Arts Northwest presents music that captures the magic of this season, warming our spirits with music that invokes imagery of night and light, feelings of joy and peace. Music includes a rich variety of cultural traditions, marking solstice, the beginning of the Festival of Lights, and Las Posadas, with music from Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela. This concert features Reena Esmail's new work, The Winter Breviary, which traces a journey through the solstice and combines new texts by Rebecca Gayle Howell with Hindustani raags for the night and morning light hours. Music by Northwest composers Emily Lau, Andrew Jacobson, and Katerina Gimon capture a spirit of wonder, and interludes for piano and oboe seamlessly weave together this concert experience.
COVID-19 Protocols: Masks and vaccinations are encouraged but not required of audience members. The choir will not be masked unless CDC and King County guidelines change before December 17/18th. Choir members will test daily and only be permitted to sing if negative and illness free. 100% of choir members are vaccinated through the most recent booster.