Bellevue Chamber Chorus is in its fourth decade of bringing
beautiful, inspiring, exciting choral music to the Greater Eastside and Puget Sound region.
Update on our 2020-2021 season!
Dear friends,
Over a year has gone by since we stopped live performances, cancelling our March 2020 concert “Finding Home,” and then of course the rest of our season. The Chorus has so far managed to weather the pandemic and associated complications, and we are incredibly grateful for the generous support and enthusiasm of our community during this time. We hope that our nearly monthly offerings of “virtual choir recordings” have been entertaining! However, the end of this season has met with some unforeseen challenges that have required us to make a few changes to our upcoming schedule (see “Enjoy our Virtual Performances” below).
We’re also continuing to learn and grow as an organization. We invited Dr. Maria Guinand to speak with us about “Latin American Performance Practice” in February (and barely dipped a toe into the immense richness and variety in Latin American culture)! We have two more guest speakers scheduled in April and May: first, Dr. Kari Ragan (“Vocal Resonance/Acoustics of Performance Practice”) and then Dr. Rollo Dilworth (“Spiritual Performance Practice”). Both of these speakers are fantastic and we can’t wait to host them!
Please feel free to contact us with any questions or thoughts, either via email or on our Facebook page. We’d love to hear from you!
~ Kris Bryan, Co-President, Bellevue Chamber Chorus Board of Directors
~ Ben Luedcke, Artistic Director
Enjoy our "Virtual Performances!"
Due to some complications our schedule has changed slightly. Join us on Tuesdays at 7:30 pm PT on YouTube or Facebook for our “virtual choir” performance premieres!
~ April 13, 2021: Lux Aeterna ~ Ēriks Ešenvalds ~ a memorial for all those we have lost due to COVID-19
~ May 25, 2021: In the Night We Shall Go In ~ Imant Raminsh, feat. cello and piano
~ June 15, 2021: Lockung ~ Josef Rheinberger, feat. piano
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Because Bellevue Chamber Chorus is unable to meet in person for a while, we’re sending out a new “newsletter” to keep in contact with our community! These emails will occur no more than 1x month, and include notes from our Artistic Director and insider updates on things that the Chorus is doing and planning for the upcoming “virtual” new season.
SIGN UP for EMAIL!Results: Emerging Composer Competition!
Announcing the winners of Bellevue Chamber Chorus’ “Emerging Composers Competition!” Amid dozens of entries, two pieces were so impressive we decided to double the prize and award two winners!
Congratulations to Isaac Lovdahl and Brittney Benton!
LEARN MOREWatch our most recent virtual recording!
We’ll post our most recent virtual recording here on the night of its premiere. If you’ve missed a premiere, you can always find it later on our YouTube channel, “Bellevue Chamber Chorus Official”! You can also conveniently watch all our previous recordings from this season on our 2020-2021 Virtual Season Playlist! Please subscribe (see above) and help us get to 100 followers!
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About Bellevue Chamber Chorus
Bellevue Chamber Chorus, founded in 1984 in Bellevue, Washington, exists to bring beauty and artistic inspiration to the community through the choral arts. A few notable facts about the chorus:
- We have performed around the world, including Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House, and most recently in July 2017, at the 22nd annual Festival Chorale Internationale in Provence (and 4th annual in Aveyron).
- We were honored to win First Place at the Kathaumixw International Choral Festival in British Columbia (2008), in the Adult Mixed Chorus category.
- We’ve released 3 CDs over the years.
- Enjoy some of our music (9-minute sample)
- We’ve commissioned several works by Northwest, national and international composers over the years, including most recently “Roots”, by Ola Gjeilo, as part of a consortium through Chorus America. See our virtual premiere below!
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Christmas Visions,
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In 2013, our 30th anniversary year, we released the first Bellevue Chamber Chorus holiday CD, “Christmas Visions, Winter Dreams”, a delightful compilation of our holiday performance highlights. We no longer have an online sales outlet, so email us at info@bellevuechamberchorus.org if you’d like a CD!
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