University of Washington Choirs

11/21/2025

UW Sings is here! 🎶
Come experience performances by the Advanced Treble Choir, Glee, U Singers, and the Treble Choir.
Presented by the UW School of Music.

11/21/2025

UW Sings is here! 🎶
Come experience performances by the Advanced Treble Choir, Glee, New Singers, and the Treble Choir.
Presented by the UW School of Music.

10/31/2025

Choirs from University of Washington and Seattle University gather for a special zoom session with Craig Hella Johnson, composer of Considering Matthew Shepherd. Our combined choirs will share this incredible major work in the spring. Thank you to Craig Hella Johnson for his insights, helping us as we dive deeper into the story and music.

10/21/2024

UW Chorale holds its pre-release party today for Chasing Daybreak, our fourth CD! This recording includes samples from our last three years of singing together. It'll show up on streaming platforms in the next month or so, and features the following playlist:
1- Rivers of Light (Eriks Esenvalds)
2- The Unexpected Early Hour (Reena Esmail)
3- O Magnum Mysterium (Cesar Carrillo)
4- Kaisa-Isa Niyan (Philippines, arr. Alcala)
5- Asimbonanga (South Africa)
6- This Morning (Reg Unterseher)
7- Concord (Benjamin Britten)
8- At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners (Williametta Spencer)
9- Zikr- (A.H. Rahmann, arr. Sperry)
10- Raagi Thandeera (Phillips and Vishveshwara)
11- Jalakamaladala (Nariman Wadia)
12- Hentakan Jiwa (Ken Steven)
Many thanks to Serena Chin, our collaborative pianist, Bill Levey, our engineer, Guest Conductors Justin Birchell and Marshell Lombard, Sophie Root, cover art, Felicia Tzeng, graphic design, and all of our student soloists!

09/11/2024

Come Join UW Choirs for 2024-25! You can sign up for a placement (Sept 23 and 24) for any of our auditioned groups, or just show up to class on the first day for our non-auditioned ones. Huskies love to Sing!

05/23/2024

Our UW Chorale/Chamber Singers spring concert is tomorrow night! Please join us for a slate of works written by UW student composers as well as "Twin Stars", a work written collaboratively by Seattle University choirs- they chose the text, co-create the melodies and harmonies and I wrote the piano accompaniment!

Faculty Performances, Performances, Student Activities and Performances. 2024-05-24.

04/08/2024

What a great day of singing, teaching, learning,and inspiration! Along with Nicole Lamartine, Angie Kasper, and Giselle Wyers’ inspired teaching, we held master classes led by our graduate choral conductors. Michael McKenzie teaching the power of the Wring, Heidi Blythe introducing Laban movements, Justin Birchell playing with Indian rhythms-TaKaDdiMi! Not shown is Egija Unhure teaching about the miracle of choral singing in the Baltic, Scott Fikse turning a hundred singers on to barbershop, and forgive me if I am forgetting any! Thanks too to Larke Witten for her organizational genius, as well as Evan Norberg, Cee Adamson, David Ferguson and a host of our choral students to make our UW Choral Festival a great day.

01/28/2024

The UW Recital Choir, Cohort Ensemble, UW community instrumentalists, and guest group Distler 8 will be conducted by graduate student Scott Fikse this coming Saturday, Feb. 3 @ 4:00pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Come hear the heartfelt and inspiring music these great singers and instrumentalists will share. Free admission.

12/07/2023

Tonight is the night! Hannah, Jackie, and Alex would love for you to join the combined UW Choirs for Winterest tonight at 7:30pm. A special shout out to these three wonderful singers who are all members of Treble, Glee, and Chorale! There’s a lot of heart and dedication in our UW choirs.

12/05/2023