UW Chamber Singers – Past Concerts

The University of Washington School of Music’s top auditioned choirs present their spring quarter concert.

A legendary opera star takes the Meany stage to explore traditional spirituals and the writings of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass.

A concert celebrating the centennial of the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, presented in collaboration with the UW Baltic Studies Program.

7 conductors, 6 choral ensembles, 5 hundred singers, 4 graduate conductors, 3 choral faculty, 2 hours of great music, and 1 impressive grand finale.

The UW’s top auditioned choirs perform Bach’s Cantata 106, Vivaldi’s Vix et Dominum, two settings of “When David Heard,” and other selections.

A profoundly moving multimedia concert-drama combining the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation.

A profoundly moving multimedia concert-drama combining the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation.

Purcell's best-known and most beloved work for the stage.

Purcell's best-known and most beloved work for the stage.

Sweet Honey in the Rock (arr.) – Breaths
Samuel Barber – The Coolin
James McMillan – The Gallant Weaver
Javier Busto – Ave Maria
Sedans Reinis – VINDO
Joan Szymko – River
Jake Runestad – New work
Greg Jasperse – New work
Giselle Wyers – A Field of Hosannas (world premiere)

The UW’s top auditioned choirs present their Fall Quarter concert, featuring music by Bach, Stravinsky, Brahms, and many others.

Abbie Betinis – From Behind the Caravan
Kevin Jay Isaacs – It's the morning...
Paul Rudoi – Song of Sky and Sea

René Clausen – Festival Te Deum
Cecil Effinger – An American Hymn (America The Beautiful) (arr. René Clausen)
Trad. – Let All The World In Every Corner Sing (arr. René Clausen)
Trad. – I Lift Mine Eyes Unto The Hills (arr. René Clausen)

Music dealing with suffering and redemption, including the world premiere of Robert Kyr's The Rose Led Us To Our Eyes and Arvo Pärt’s ground-breaking Passio.

A revolutionary approach, as practiced by Handel, of embedding the soloists in the choir.

A revolutionary approach, as practiced by Handel, of embedding the soloists in the choir.

A revolutionary approach, as practiced by Handel, of embedding the soloists in the choir.

A revolutionary approach, as practiced by Handel, of embedding the soloists in the choir.

Seven conductors, six choral ensembles, five hundred singers, four graduate conductors, three choral faculty, two hours of great music, and one impressive grand finale.