Evergreen Ensemble presents a program that considers the different types of places and people we hold as sacred.

Featuring Sacred Place by award winning composer, Alex Berko.

Evergreen Ensemble presents a program that considers the different types of places and people we hold as sacred.

Featuring Sacred Place by award winning composer, Alex Berko.

In collaboration with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, co-directed by Kris Kwapis and Markdavin Obenza, we travel to Venice to celebrate virtuosic music written by the Red Priest. In addition to his beloved Gloria written for the famed Ospedale della Pietà orphanage in Venice, the program includes his Concerto for Trumpet and Oboe, and his dazzling Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, “La Notte” RV 501.

In collaboration with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, co-directed by Kris Kwapis and Markdavin Obenza, we travel to Venice to celebrate virtuosic music written by the Red Priest. In addition to his beloved Gloria written for the famed Ospedale della Pietà orphanage in Venice, the program includes his Concerto for Trumpet and Oboe, and his dazzling Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, “La Notte” RV 501.

(Seattle, WA) The centerpiece of this program of Renaissance and modern music is Allegri’s Miserere. The work was exclusively sung by the Sistine Chapel Choir, though legend says that a 14-year old Mozart visited Rome and wrote out the piece perfectly from memory after just one hearing, sending the Vatican’s guarded secret into the world. The psalm setting is famously known for a high C, sung by a soprano soloist.

(Seattle, WA)

The centerpiece of this program of Renaissance and modern music is Allegri’s Miserere. The work was exclusively sung by the Sistine Chapel Choir, though legend says that a 14-year old Mozart visited Rome and wrote out the piece perfectly from memory after just one hearing, sending the Vatican’s guarded secret into the world. The psalm setting is famously known for a high C, sung by a soprano soloist.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

This mesmerizing work features 54 dancers moving as one organism to Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. Perfectly complemented by Twyla Tharp’s Shaker-inspired Sweet Fields and Jessica Lang’s stunning solo work The Calling, you won’t want to miss this powerful program. Ruth will be performing with other members of the Tudor Choir during the ballets Sweet Fields and The Calling.

(Seattle, WA) The program features two large works for choir and organ by American composer Nico Muhly. Our Present Charter celebrates the sealing in 1215 of the Magna Carta in four movements and Bright Mass with Canons pays homage to traditional English choral music through Muhly’s own take on the sound world of Tudor music and Herbert Howells. Connecting Muhly’s pieces is a setting of the Beatitudes by Arvo Pärt which Muhly also set as the third movement in Our Present Charter.

(Seattle, WA) Dietrich Buxtehude’s rarely performed Membra Jesu Nostri is a sacred choral masterpiece consisting of seven cantatas, each dedicated to a different part of Christ’s crucified body. Five soloists will join baroque instruments and chamber choir to present a unique opportunity to hear this deeply expressive and beautiful work.

(San Francisco, CA)

Two settings of the Marian text Salve regina by English composers William Cornysh and Gabriel Jackson are featured on this program of Renaissance and modern motets. It also features music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac, and Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães.

(Seattle, WA)

Two settings of the Marian text Salve regina by English composers William Cornysh and Gabriel Jackson are featured on this program of Renaissance and modern motets. It also features music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, Flemish composer Heinrich Isaac, and Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães.

(Seattle, WA) Ring in the holidays with our annual performance of early American music from Appalachia and New England. Powerful, rousing shapenote tunes and lively Shaker songs bring the cheer of Christmas to life. These uniquely American music traditions are part of a vibrant cultural heritage, passed down through oral traditions, singing schools, and community practice. Shaker and shapenote music beautifully showcase the simple power of communal singing – in fact, the most common shapenote book, the Sacred Harp, is named after that sacred musical instrument given to us at birth: the human voice. Join Radiance for this festive, joyful celebration!

(Seattle, WA) Two works frame this program of early 20th century English Christmas music: Gerald Finzi’s In terra pax and Gustav Holst’s Christmas Day. The program also features carol arrangements by John Rutter, Harold Darke, and Holst. Written during a time when composers looked to the past for inspiration, their music pays homage to the English holiday tradition through a rich repertoire that speaks to the heart of the Christmas spirit.

(Seattle, WA) Two works frame this program of early 20th century English Christmas music: Gerald Finzi’s In terra pax and Gustav Holst’s Christmas Day. The program also features carol arrangements by John Rutter, Harold Darke, and Holst. Written during a time when composers looked to the past for inspiration, their music pays homage to the English holiday tradition through a rich repertoire that speaks to the heart of the Christmas spirit.

(Fairhope, AL) The Byrd Ensemble is traveling back to Alabama! The program, “In the Company of William Byrd”, will include selections from Byrd, Tallis, Lobo, as well as a newly-commissioned piece by Nico Muhly.

(Birmingham, AL) An annual tradition! The Byrd Ensemble is traveling back to Alabama as part of the Downtown Concert Series. The program, “In the Company of William Byrd”, will include selections from Byrd, Tallis, Lobo, as well as a newly-commissioned piece by Nico Muhly.

(Seattle, WA) Immerse yourself in the unmatched genius of Bach’s choral writing, performed by some of our region’s finest singers and continuo players. Bach’s motets are at once virtuosic and accessible to the audience. The concert will feature Bach’s profoundly spiritual setting of Jesu, meine Freude and his famed Singet dem Herrn for double choir, among other surprise works by Bach and his contemporaries performed by acclaimed soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah.

(Portland, OR) Byrd Ensemble is excited to be presented by Portland-based choral ensemble, In Medio, for a program on Sunday, October 22 at 3pm. The program will open with a performance by In Medio and will combine forces for a performance of Tallis's Spem in alium.

(Seattle, WA) Opening Byrd Ensemble’s 20th Anniversary season and to honor 400 years since the death of our namesake, William Byrd, this program features a world premiere commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble. The new work, by American composer Nico Muhly, is based on Byrd's motet, Ne irascaris, Domine and will be conducted by Muhly himself.