Friday, March 1, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Marc-Antoine CharpentierLes arts florissants, H. 487
Various — Selected works ("Scatter, Gather": celebration of choral music traditions from the Pacific Rim & beyond)

In the first half of this program, the Chamber Singers (Geoffrey Boers, director) and singers from the UW Opera Workshop perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Les arts florissants. In the second half of the program, the Chamber Singers and University Chorale (Giselle Wyers, director) present "Scatter, Gather," a celebration of choral music traditions of the Pacific Rim and beyond.

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