Community Calendar

The Year’s Midnight
Music for the season from North America

Bastyr University Chapel
Saturday December 12th
3:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Celebrate the winter solstice with soul-warming music from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Our December concerts often sell out—make plans early for your holiday inspiration.

Featured composers: Reena Esmail (Winter Breviary), Morten Lauridsen, Sarah Quartel, Caroline Shaw, David Garcia Saldana, Tomás Pascual, David MacIntyre.

Of note: Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Bastyr (December 12) will be sung-through, and will not include any spoken introductions to the pieces after our welcome message; we will ask the audience to hold applause until the end of the concert. These concerts will be recorded. Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Seattle First Baptist Church (December 19) will include introductions from choir members and Karen P. Thomas, and audience members will be encouraged to applaud as they are moved to do so.

The Year’s Midnight
Music for the season from North America

Seattle First Baptist Church
Saturday December 19th
3:00 pm & 7:00 pm

Celebrate the winter solstice with soul-warming music from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Our December concerts often sell out—make plans early for your holiday inspiration.

Featured composers: Reena Esmail (Winter Breviary), Morten Lauridsen, Sarah Quartel, Caroline Shaw, David Garcia Saldana, Tomás Pascual, David MacIntyre.

Of note: Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Bastyr (December 12) will be sung-through, and will not include any spoken introductions to the pieces after our welcome message; we will ask the audience to hold applause until the end of the concert. These concerts will be recorded. Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Seattle First Baptist Church (December 19) will include introductions from choir members and Karen P. Thomas, and audience members will be encouraged to applaud as they are moved to do so.

The Dark Garden
New American Composers Series with Fahad Siadat

Seattle First Baptist Church
Saturday March 6 - 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm

A “fanciful and downright utopian artist and thinker” (LA Times), Fahad Siadat uses music to uncover the mysteries of our inter-connected world. Let your spirit soar as choirs from local schools join us to explore this visionary music together.

Featured composers: Fahad Siadat (world premiere of The Dark Garden), Eric Whitacre, Moses Hogan, Josef Rheinberger, Donald Skirvin, Elizabeth Alexander.

Rachmaninoff Vespers

St James Cathedral
Saturday May 15 - 8:00 pm

Rachmaninoff’s hour-long All-Night Vigil (also known as Vespers) is a masterpiece for the ages, using only human voices to create rich tapestries of sound. Join us for this truly moving expression of the human heart.

Featured composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff (All-Night Vigil), Pavel Chesnokov, contemporary Ukrainian composers Iryna Aleksiychuk and Hanna Havrylets.

Rachmaninoff Vespers

Trinity Lutheran Lynnwood
Sunday May 16 - 4:00 pm

Rachmaninoff’s hour-long All-Night Vigil (also known as Vespers) is a masterpiece for the ages, using only human voices to create rich tapestries of sound. Join us for this truly moving expression of the human heart.

Featured composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff (All-Night Vigil), Pavel Chesnokov, contemporary Ukrainian composers Iryna Aleksiychuk and Hanna Havrylets.