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CONCERT SERIES
SEATTLE
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SATURDAY, OCT 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle
SUNDAY, OCT 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trinity Parish Church
609 8th Ave, Seattle
In celebration of Palestrina’s 500th anniversary, the Byrd Ensemble presents a program of Renaissance polychoral music by Palestrina and his contemporaries. The centerpiece of the program is the Missa Cantantibus organis Caecilia, written by seven Roman musicians who each composed different parts of the Mass using themes from Palestrina’s motet of the same name. The result is a spectacular Mass setting for twelve voices in triple choir that demonstrates the breadth of the Roman style in this single work. The program also includes a new work by British composer Kerensa Briggs inspired by Palestrina's Stabat Mater, commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble.
PALESTRINA: Magnificat
PALESTRINA: Tribulationes civitatum
VICTORIA: Versa est in luctum
BRIGGS: New commission
PALESTRINA: Stabat mater
PALESTRINA: Cantantibus organis
PALESTRINA: Missa Cantantibus organis Caecilia
FRIDAY, DEC 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle
Frosty wind. Snow on snow. Wild wood and green holly. Tidings of comfort. Tidings of joy. The Tudor Choir, directed by Doug Fullington, is joined by violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim for a holiday concert of traditional carols and warm seasonal fare.
LISZT: In dulci jubilo
MOUTON: Nesciens mater
RUTTER: The Wild Wood Carol
FOSTER: While shepherds watched
HOWELLS: A Spotless Rose
HOLST, arr. GJEILO: In the bleak midwinter
WEST COUNTRY TRADITIONAL: God rest you merry, gentlemen
IDENSTAM: In dulci jubilo
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The truth from above
CLEMENTS: Gabriel’s message
BRITTEN: In the bleak midwinter
CHILCOTT: The shepherd’s carol
GRUBER: Stille Nacht
GRUBER, arr. RIDOUT: Silent night
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Wither’s rocking hymn
RATHBONE: The Oxen
GRAINGER: The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
SATURDAY, NOV 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle
SUNDAY, NOV 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trinity Parish Church
609 8th Ave, Seattle
Join the Byrd Ensemble for an English Christmas program featuring Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and Gustav Holst’s Four Old English Carols, with harpist Elizabeth Landis. Accompanying these classics are Christmas motets by Renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.
BRITTEN: A Hymn to the Virgin
BYRD: Lulla, lullaby, my sweet little baby
LEIGHTON: Coventry Carol
HOLST: Four Old English Christmas Carols
TALLIS: “Gloria” from Missa Puer natus est nobis
ANONYMOUS: Angelus ad Virginem
BRITTEN: Ceremony of Carols
PEARSALL: In dulci jubilo
SATURDAY, MAR 7, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle
Featuring music by three seminal Renaissance composers from the 15th and 16th-century Flemish School: Josquin des Prez, Nicolas Gombert, and Thomas Crecquillon. Accompanying these works are two contemporary pieces by British composers Kerensa Briggs and Gabriel Jackson, whose music draws inspiration from Renaissance music.
JOSQUIN: Benedicta es
CRECQUILLON: Ego flos campi
GOMBERT: Media vita
BRIGGS: Media vita
JOSQUIN/RUE: Absalon fili mi
GOMBERT: Lugebat David Absalon
CRECQUILLON: Pater peccavi
MOUTON: Nesciens mater
JACKSON: O sacrum convivium
GOMBERT: Magnificat tertii et octavi toni
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Town Hall Seattle
1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle
The Byrd Ensemble and players present a program inspired by the Carmelite Vespers of 1707. The program features Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri, Nisi Dominus, and chant, for baroque orchestra, choir, and soloists. The program features guest concertmaster and internationally acclaimed violinist, Augusta McKay Lodge.
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