Opus 7: All Northwest

• Soren Hamm, soprano saxophone
• Christina Siemens, piano

Jessica French — Awake, O Sun
Morten Lauridsen — Les Chansons des Roses ("En Une Seule Fleur")
Karen P. Thomas — Four Lewis Carroll Songs (No. 2: Father William)
Jacob Malpocker — Ubi Caritas
Abraham Kaplan — O my son Absalom
John Michael Paulson — The Lamb
John Muehleisen — And Music Shall Untune the Sky (world premiere)
Sascha Beamer — Morning Song
Calvin Rice — Spellbound
Bern Herbolsheimer — Frutas Tropicales ("Mamacita Mamey")
Claudio Monteverdi — Non si levava ancor l'alba novella, SV 40
John Muehleisen — Non si levava (after Monteverdi)
Reginald Unterseher — Love your neighbor
Joan Szymko — Lo Lefached

Please join Opus 7 as we celebrate the musical contributions of some of our region’s most prominent choral composers, including five world premieres. This popular biannual concert of choral works by Northwest composers features pieces by Morten Lauridsen, Joan Szymko, Bern Herbolsheimer, Jessica French, Reginald Unterseher, Karen P. Thomas, and Opus 7’s Composer-in-Residence John Muehleisen. Opus 7 will also perform the winning compositions from our Robert Scandrett Memorial Student Composer Competition.

7:00 p.m. pre-concert talk hosted by Opus 7’s Composer-in-Residence John Muehleisen and featuring several of the Northwest composers whose works we will be performing

8:00 p.m. concert

Tickets:

Preferred Seating: $40 in advance
General Seating: $25 in advance, $30 at the door
Seniors: $20 in advance, $24 at the door
Students: Pay as able at the door with student ID

About Opus 7

http://opus7.org/

About Soren Hamm, soprano saxophone

Heard on the popular radio programs Performance Today and Northwest Focus Live, saxophonist Soren Hamm teaches on the faculties of Seattle Pacific University and Pierce College Puyallup. He is the only person to win both the Solo and (with the Equus Saxophone Quartet) Chamber Ensemble divisions of Seattle's Frances Walton Competition, and was a winner of the Northwest MTNA Competitions on multiple occasions. He has performed with some of the Puget Sound's pre-eminent ensembles, including the Northwest Sinfonietta, Seattle Modern Orchestra, and Opus 7 Choir; in 2023, he made his Benaroya Hall debut as soloist with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra on Ibert's Concertino da Camera.

Soren is an avid promoter of new music for saxophone. His work with composers including Dai Fujikura, Marilyn Shrude, and Seattle's John Muehleisen, among many others, has resulted in dozens of premieres, as well as performances at the Bowling Green New Music Festival, Ball State New Music Festival, and the New Music Gathering. Soren is a founding member of Onomatopoeia, the world's first flute/saxophone/horn trio, and helped commission the first original repertoire for this combination of instruments.

Soren holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (MM) and the University of Oregon (BM), graduating from the latter with the distinction of Outstanding Undergraduate Performer in Woodwinds; he also completed Music Education studies at Western Washington University. His teachers include John Sampen, Idit Shner, and Fred Winkler.

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