Join us for a thrilling, one-of-a-kind season!
KCS’s 2024–25 season will be one for the ages: artfully crafted, personal-best concert programs from each of the talented finalists for our Artistic Director position.
KCS’s 2024–25 season will be one for the ages: artfully crafted, personal-best concert programs from each of the talented finalists for our Artistic Director position.
Composer Eric Whitacre and his longtime friend and collaborator, poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, have created their most expansive work to date, “The Sacred Veil,” a sensitive exploration of the fragile lines between birth, love, life, and loss. This poignant human story is a delicate, beautiful, and emotional work that charts Silvestri falling in love with his wife, the birth of their children, and her death from cancer. Its text is drawn primarily from Silvestri’s poetry and from the words of his late wife, Julie. Our presentation of this powerful piece is conducted by Dr. Steven Zopfi and joined by our partner orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest.
This concert lasts 70 minutes with no intermission.
Content Advisory:
This concert contains discussions of sensitive topics relating to grief and loss, which some audience members may find emotionally challenging.
This concert contains discussions of sensitive topics relating to grief and loss, which some audience members may find emotionally challenging.
Previously this season:
Light and Love Abound – Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 3 pm
Bastyr University Chapel, Kenmore
A lush and lyrical celebration of love designed and conducted by Dr. Daniel Mahraun. Philharmonia Northwest accompanied KCS in Elaine Hagenburg's gorgeous new major choral-orchestral work, Illuminare, and we explored the many facets of love and longing through delightful offerings by Stephen Sondheim, Rosephanye Powell, Jocelyn Hagen, Gwyneth Walker, and more. Read the concert program here.
Light and Love Abound – Sunday, February 23, 2025 – 3 pm
Bastyr University Chapel, Kenmore
A lush and lyrical celebration of love designed and conducted by Dr. Daniel Mahraun. Philharmonia Northwest accompanied KCS in Elaine Hagenburg's gorgeous new major choral-orchestral work, Illuminare, and we explored the many facets of love and longing through delightful offerings by Stephen Sondheim, Rosephanye Powell, Jocelyn Hagen, Gwyneth Walker, and more. Read the concert program here.
Sing Love, Shout Joy! – Sunday, December 8, 2024 – 3 pm
Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue
A rich, inventive holiday program designed and conducted by Dr. Brennan Michaels and joined by our partner orchestra Philharmonia Northwest. Highlights included Vaughan Williams's exquisite Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Hailstork's exuberant Shout for Joy, both featuring pipe organ, and two ethereal movements of Latvian composer Andris Sejans's The Seven O Antiphons. Read the concert program here.
Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Bellevue
A rich, inventive holiday program designed and conducted by Dr. Brennan Michaels and joined by our partner orchestra Philharmonia Northwest. Highlights included Vaughan Williams's exquisite Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Hailstork's exuberant Shout for Joy, both featuring pipe organ, and two ethereal movements of Latvian composer Andris Sejans's The Seven O Antiphons. Read the concert program here.
Performance Videos
Highlights from past seasons:
Part One of our 2023 holiday concert with Philharmonia Northwest, featuring choruses from Handel’s Messiah:
Part Two of our 2023 holiday concert, featuring works by Reena Esmail, Dale Trumbore, Florence Price, Sally Beamish, Ola Gjeilo, Alvin Trotman, and Jerry Rubino. We were joined for two selections by the Lyrica Choir from Lake Washington High School:
Our 2022 holiday concert featured Bach’s Magnificat and Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. KCS was joined by our orchestra partner Philharmonia Northwest:
During the pandemic, KCS produced this virtual recording of “O Love,” composed by Elaine Hagenberg and based on a hymn by George Matheson:
Click here to enjoy KCS's performance of Verdi’s Requiem at Benaroya Hall!
Click here to see a compilation of other recent performances.
