Past Concerts

  • Concert description coming soon

  • In this concert we presented a program of all Pacific Northwest composers with choral pieces on a winter theme, including the world premieres of works by Aaron Giles (Masters in this hall), John Michael Paulson (little tree), and Calvin Rice (Spellbound). Sharing the program are compositions by Giselle Wyers (After the Winter), Peter Siebert (Out upon the lonely road), Karen Thomas (O little town of Bethlehem), Bronwyn Edwards (Christmas Boats), Reginald Unterseher (Christmas Joy!), and Morten Lauridsen (O magnum mysterium), PNW composers all. Also in the concert, the McMurray Choir sang, “Remembering Decembers” by PinkZebra.

  • Highlights include Eric Whitacre’s “Water Night” and the acclaimed settings of James Agee’s “Sure on this shining night” by Samuel Barber and Morten Lauridsen. Arrangements by Aaron Copland of traditional American tunes join William Averitt’s dramatic and optimistic “The Song We Sing.” “At the Water’s Edge,” a suite by Kevin Seigfried on texts of Sarah Orne Jewett, reflects on a Maine seaside village, just as Bronwyn Edwards’s “Seashore” depicts the coast of our own Vashon Island.

  • Vashon Island Chorale celebrates the 150th birthday of the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. His “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” has been a favorite for over a century, and his less-well-known “Benedicite” provides suitable panache. Amid shorter, seasonally appropriate Vaughan Williams works, we’ll also present music by his two dear friends, Gustav Holst and Gerald Finzi, including the latter’s Christmas scene, “In terra pax.”

  • Mozart Requiem. soloists Jennifer Krikawa, Marita Ericksen, Gary Cannon & Jack Burrows

  • Selections from Bronwyn Edwards’ “Vashon Suite – No Bridges” and Giselle Wyers’ “And All Shall be Well”.

  • “Once in royal David’s city” arr. Bern Herbolsheimer with soloist Karen Bargelt, “Hark! The herald angels sing” arr. Philip Ledger, “Huron Carol” arr. Dale Warland, “Moon Man” by Greg Bartholomew, “Jesus” by Joy DeCoursey-Porter, “I saw three ships” arr. John Rutter, Betilehemu” by Babatunde Olatunji, arr. Barrington Brooks with percussion by Gordy & Zoe Ryan, Richard Person & 2 students, “The Christmas Rose” by Dale Trumbore with soloists John de Groen & Amy Cole, “A lovely rose is sprung” by Andrew Jacobson, “Jesus Child” by John Rutter, “O come, all ye faithful” arr. Philip Ledger, “Peace, Peace” by Rick & Sylvia Powell, arr. Fred Block, “Brightest and best” arr. Shawn Kirchner. Vashon Youth Chorus sang “Imagine” by John Lennon, arr. Audrey Snyder.

  • “Stomp Your Foot” by Aaron Copeland, “Cantique de Jean Racine” by Gabriel Fauré, “I Have had Singing” by Steven Sametz, “Country Wedding” by Buzz Brusletten, Polovtsian Dances” by Alexander Borodin, “Serenade to Music” by Ralph Vaughan Williams with soloists Holly Boaz, Marita Ericksen, Will Gardner, Alivia Jones, J. Scott Kovacs & Lisa Peretti, “Lambscapes” by Eric Lane Barnes with soloists Marita Ericksen, Susan Hanson, J. Scott Kovacs & Maya Krah, “Amani” (Vashon Youth Chorus) by Jim Papaoulis, “Make Our Garden Grow” by Leonard Bernstein with soloists Marita Ericksen, Will Gardner, J. Scott Kovacs & Jennifer Krikawa.

  • “Christmas Cantata” by Daniel Pinkham, “A Winter’s Night” by Cecilia McDowall, “Lord, thou hast been our refuge” by Ralph Vaughan Williams, “Gloria” by John Rutter with soloists Amy Cole, Kathleen Rindge & Kaycie Alanis.

  • World premiere of “And All Shall Be Well” (7 movements) by Giselle Wyers with soloists Amy Cole, Kaycie Alanis, Don Wolczko & Rick Skillman; “Soon-ah will be done” by William Dawson; “Shaker Songs” arr. By Kevin Siegfried with soloists Kaycie Alanis, John De Groen & Gordy Ryan; “If Music” by Gary D. Cannon; “Vashon Island Moon” by Lena Davis; “Elijah Rock” arr. By Moses Hogan. McMurray Middle School & Chautauqua 5th grade choirs directed by Erynne Smith performed “Viva la musica”, “We know the way” and “Journey to the past”. Vashon ukulele ensemble led by Steve Amsden played with “Vashon Island Moon”.

  • “O come, all ye faithful”, “Away to the Skies” by William Averitt with soloists soprano Marita Ericksen and flute Rose Johnson, “God rest you merry, gentlemen”, “The first Nowell”, “A Christmas Cantata” by Arthur Honegger with soloist Andy Krikawa and Kinderchor, “Unto us is born a son”, “Hark! The herald angels sing”, plus 12/3 “Go, tell it on the mountain, guest conducted by Shannon Flora. Carols arranged by David Willcocks.

  • Joseph Haydn’s “Lord Nelson Mass” and Abraham Kaplan’s “The Song of Songs That is Solomon’s”

  • Handel’s “Messiah” with soloists Holly Boaz, Brandon Higa & Charles Robert Stephens

  • The Anvil Chorus, The Witches Chorus, Nessun Dorma, Va Pensiero, Brindisi

  • Grand Opening of The Kay White Theater at Vashon Center for the Arts.

    Carmina Burana with soloists Andy Krikawa, Jennifer Krikawa & Joe Farmer plus percussion

  • John Rutter: When Icicles Hang, Jaakko Manty Jarvi: El Hambo, Arr: Roger Emerson – Frozen Choral Suite, Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland, Victor Johnson: In Winter, Abraham Kaplan: In Winter, Harold Darke: In the Bleak Midwinter, Gustav Holst: Bring Us In Good Ale, Rick & Sylvia Powell: Peace, Peace

  • Holly Boaz & Glenn Guhr, soloists Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and Edward Elgar’s In the Bavarian Highlands

  • Bach: Wachet Auf, Ruft Uns Die Stimme, Johann Walther: Joseph, Lieber, Joseph Mein, Hugo Distler (arr): Still, Still, Still, Norman Luboff: A Christmas Carol, Elizabeth Posten: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium, Sergei Rachmaninov:Bogorditse Devo, John Rutter, arr: Wexford Carol, John Jacob Niles & Lewis Henry Horton, arr: I Wonder As I Wander, Eleanor Daley, arr: The Huron Carol, Randall Thompson: Choose Something Like a Star, William Mathais: Sir Christemas

  • Vashon Suite “No Bridges” commissioned by Vashon Island Chorale, composer Brownyn Edwards in celebration of the Chorale’s 25th Anniversary