05/05/2026
What an evening of celebration!
- Performances of the works by our student composer winners - Kaisho Barnhill and Soren Engström!
- 15 works by 13 Northwest composers - 8 in attendance - (L to R in pic) Don Skirvin, Jessica French, Emily Pontén May, Christine Szabadi, Will Rand, Soren, Kaisho, John Muehleisen and Melinda Bargreen!
- 6 world-premieres, 3 west-coast premieres
- Honoring Whitney Tjerandsen for her over 25 years of extraordinary gifts of time, talent, service, and financial support to Opus 7!
- The incredibly talented Dwight Beckmeyer on piano and Opus 7 singers performing a wide-variety of works!
- And, the enthusiastic audience, who leapt to their feet at the end following after our performance of Jabberwocky!
This has been a remarkable year of music-making:
- Oct: Music by and about women who have led, sacrificed, created, and inspired;
- Dec: Britten’s Saint Nicolas with over 200 performers;
- March: Music by Seattle’s Bern Herbolsheimer;
- and on Saturday night, our 12th every-other-year “All Northwest” concert.
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