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2010 Eastern Washington Concert Tour
The Seattle-based Northwest Boychoir will conclude a four-day concert tour of Eastern Washington with a performance for local audiences in Seattle on Sunday, April 25 as part of its Spring 2010 Eastern Washington Concert Tour. The 70-member Northwest Boychoir will perform a program of classical choral works including Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, the Rutter Gloria, as well as traditional American folk songs.
The 36-year-old Northwest Boychoir makes its home in Seattle, Washington as the premier children’s and youth choir in the Pacific Northwest. Its overall membership totals more than 200 young singers, ages 6 to 18, in seven levels of graded training and performing choirs. The members of the touring Northwest Boychoir are most elite singers in the group. They range in age from 10 to 18 and include soprano, tenor, alto, and bass voices. These young singers perform regularly with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, on movie and video game sound tracks, in professional recording studios in the service of other recording artists, and as part of their own year-round schedule of concerts.
Under the direction of Joseph Crnko, the Northwest Boychoir will make performance stops in Spokane, Ellensburg and Yakima before returning home to Seattle for a final tour concert. Prior regional tours have taken the Boychoir to Vancouver, Portland, and Central Oregon.
“Our concert tours provide our singers with the opportunity to perform in the larger Pacific Northwest region,” said Crnko. “We perform throughout Seattle regularly, but a regional tour gives us a chance to perform for an expanded audience. Each time we tour, our members become stronger musicians and more experienced performers.”
This tour begins a busy concert season following an outstanding year that included a Grammy nominated recording of Samuel Jones’ The Shoe Bird, a summer concert tour to the East Coast which included a performance at the prestigious Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro NC, and the premier of Gerard Schwarz: The Human Spirit. The Northwest Boychoir looks forward to its performance with Music of Remembrance in May for the world premier of Lori Laitman’s oratorio, Vedem as well as the Opening Night Gala Concert with Seattle Symphony in September. The Northwest Boychoir is also finishing a recording of Americana music to be released later this year.
2010 Eastern Washington Concert Tour
April 22 - 25, 2010
Press Release
Thursday, April 22, 7:30 pm
The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist
127 E 12th Ave
Spokane, WA 99202
(509) 838-4277
Free-will donation to benefit Crosswalk, a program to feed street kids
Friday, April 23, 7:30 pm
Central Washington University
Music Building Concert Hall
On campus at Dean Nicholson Blvd
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7458
(509) 963-1216
This concert is sponsored by the Central Washington University Music Department
Free Admission
Saturday, April 24, 7:30 pm
First Presbyterian Church of Yakima
9 South 8th Ave
Yakima WA 98902
(509) 248-7940
Free-will donation to benefit local Habitat for Humanity Projects
Sunday, April 25, 3 pm
Concert at Plymouth Church
1217 6th Ave
Seattle, WA 98101
Festival seating
Tickets (supports Tour Fund):
$17 adult, $12 senior & student, $5 child (12 & under)
(206) 524-3234 or www.nwchoirs.org
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I consider the [Northwest Boychoir] one of the most moving and glorious boychoirs I've ever heard, [with] their superb tone, expressiveness, and responsiveness to their marvelous director. The audience was tremendously enthusiastic . . . I would like nothing more than to have the choir return to St. Rose as often as possible.
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-Gene Paul Strayer, Minister of Music, St. Rose of Lima Parish |
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