Unsung Voices Concert & Album Release
June 14 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Interested in our “Unsung Voices Album Pre-Sale Deal”? A bundle of two concert tickets + a copy of the album will be available during our Online Auction from April 25 to May 2. Those who purchase the bundle will receive Eventbrite ticket confirmations after the auction ends.
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Join Seattle Girls Choir’s Prime Voci as they celebrate 1,000 years of choral music composed by women!
Women have always been part of the history of choral music. Unsung Voices celebrates and honors their vast contributions with an exciting selection of choral compositions by women dating as far back as the twelfth century through the present day.
The program includes works by Isabella Leonarda, Florence Price, Ethyl Smyth, Caroline Shaw, Rosephanye Powell, local composer Jessica French, and a world premiere of a new commission by Joan Szymko.
Program:
Ethyl SMYTH: The March of the Women
Hildegard VON BINGEN: O Frondens Virga
Maddalena CASALUNA: Stavasi il mio bel sol
Isabella LEONARDA: Ave Regina Caelorum
Clara SCHUMANN, arr. Beth Ann BONNECROY: Loreley
Florence PRICE: Forever
Amy BEACH: Three Shakespeare Choruses
Jessica FRENCH: Full Many a Glorious Morning
Joan SZYMKO: Vox Matris (world premiere, commissioned by Seattle Girls Choir, 2025)
Joanna FORBES L’ESTRANGE: Give us Grace
Katherine DIENES: Ave Verum
Caroline SHAW: Its Motions Keeps
Rosephanye POWELL: Non Nobis Domine
FRENCH: O Star of Strength (commissioned by Seattle Girls Choir, 2022)
Directed by Sarra S. Doyle and featuring Susanna Valleau, piano, and Jordan Voelker, viola.
This concert also marks the release of SGC’s first studio album in over a decade! Many thanks to the donors and funders who made the Unsung Voices album possible, including the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.
Tickets on sale April 1st via Eventbrite.
