Nordic Chamber Music: Denmark – A Fair & Lovely Land
Suggested donation: $30 ($20 senior, $10 student/child)
- Gary D. Cannon, conductor
- Clarice Alfonso, soprano
- Rebekah Gilmore, soprano
- Natalie Ingrisano, soprano
- Marjorie Bunday, alto
- Kathryn Weld, alto
- Kathea Yarnell, alto
- Nicholas Gorne, tenor
- Brandon Higa, tenor
- Dustin Kaspar, tenor
- Ben Grover, bass
- Ben Harris, bass
- Jonathan Silvia, bass
Niels Gade — Selected works ("Fünf Gesänge, opus 13")
Bernhard Lewkovitch — Selected works ("Tre madrigali di Torquato Tasso")
Mette Nielsen — Selected works ("Motet")
Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen — Selected works ("Eksempler")
Nancy Dalberg — Selected works ("Vandet risler med sagte Lyd")
Seattle's premier professional chamber chorus—The Emerald Ensemble, conducted by Gary Cannon—returns to the Nordic Chamber Music Stage with a program of luscious choral music from Denmark.
In lieu of tickets this year we are offering the concerts to all regardless of financial position. With several suggested donation levels, we hope you’ll consider pre-registering for the concerts, supporting the full season, or donating at whatever level is comfortable for you. If you are not able to donate but would like to attend, we welcome you as you are. We are able to continue to provide this series because of the generosity of individuals like you. Thank you. Takk. Tak. Tack. Takk. Kiitos.
About Nordic Chamber Music
Nordic Chamber Music presents chamber music concerts featuring music from each of the five Nordic countries each year, plus a sixth concert highlighting one of the countries neighboring the region. Musicians from the Pacific Northwest, across the US, and from abroad grace the NCM stage, brining works otherwise unheard in our region. With Laura Loge as Artistic Director, the series is produced by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society.
https://nordicchambermusic.orgAbout Gary D. Cannon, conductor
Dr. Gary D. Cannon is one of Seattle's most versatile choral personalities, active as conductor, singer, and musicologist. Since 2008 he is Artistic Director of Cascadian Chorale and of the 100-voice Vashon Island Chorale. In 2016 he founded the Emerald Ensemble, a professional chamber choir. At the invitation of the Early Music Guild, he founded and directed a Renaissance choir, Sine Nomine (2008–15). He has conducted for Vashon Opera three times, and has also directed Anna's Bay Chamber Choir, Choral Arts, Earth Day Singers, Kirkland Choral Society, and the Northwest Mahler Festival.
As a tenor soloist, he has appeared with Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Philharmonic, and the Auburn, Eastside, Rainier, and Sammamish Symphony Orchestras, as well as many Seattle-area choirs. He lectures for Seattle Symphony and provides program notes for choirs across the country. His independent musicological research has a special emphasis on the music of William Walton.
A California native, Dr. Cannon holds degrees from the University of California at Davis and the University of Washington.
http://cannonesque.com/