Upcoming Seattle Symphony Chorale Concerts
Repertoire Events
Beethoven Festival Symphony No. 9
Thursday, 25 June, 2020 7:30PM
While health officials manage the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in our community, the Seattle Symphony has made the difficult decision to cancel all performances scheduled for June 3–28 and July 25, 2020. All ticket holders will be notified.
In his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven models the ultimate courage of an artist, transcending his profound deafness and all preconceptions about the limits of a symphony. Every measure of vulnerability and power builds to the most uplifting arrival in the history of music, when the Seattle Symphony Chorale rises to proclaim the rousing “Ode to Joy.”
PLUS: Beethoven Festival passes now available! Choose 3, 4 or 6 concerts and enjoy special benefits.
Read more >
Canceled
Beethoven Ninth Untuxed
Friday, 26 June, 2020 7:00PM
While health officials manage the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in our community, the Seattle Symphony has made the difficult decision to cancel all performances scheduled for June 3–28 and July 25, 2020. All ticket holders will be notified.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is an eternal call through the ages for peace and unity for all. This Untuxed concert is short (no intermission) and casual (no formal wear for the orchestra), with engaging insights and wit from host and Seattle Symphony bass Jonathan Green.
PLUS: Beethoven Festival passes now available! Choose 3, 4 or 6 concerts and enjoy special benefits.
Read more >
Canceled
Beethoven Festival Symphony No. 9
Saturday, 27 June, 2020 8:00PM
While health officials manage the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in our community, the Seattle Symphony has made the difficult decision to cancel all performances scheduled for June 3–28 and July 25, 2020. All ticket holders will be notified.
In his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven models the ultimate courage of an artist, transcending his profound deafness and all preconceptions about the limits of a symphony. Every measure of vulnerability and power builds to the most uplifting arrival in the history of music, when the Seattle Symphony Chorale rises to proclaim the rousing “Ode to Joy.”
PLUS: Beethoven Festival passes now available! Choose 3, 4 or 6 concerts and enjoy special benefits.
Read more >
Canceled
Beethoven Festival Symphony No. 9
Sunday, 28 June, 2020 4:00PM
While health officials manage the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in our community, the Seattle Symphony has made the difficult decision to cancel all performances scheduled for June 3–28 and July 25, 2020. All ticket holders will be notified.
In his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven models the ultimate courage of an artist, transcending his profound deafness and all preconceptions about the limits of a symphony. Every measure of vulnerability and power builds to the most uplifting arrival in the history of music, when the Seattle Symphony Chorale rises to proclaim the rousing “Ode to Joy.”
PLUS: Beethoven Festival passes now available! Choose 3, 4 or 6 concerts and enjoy special benefits.
Read more >
Canceled
Show More Events
Past Seattle Symphony Chorale Concerts
-
2015-2016 Season
| Dec 3, 5 & 6 | Faure | Requiem | Ludovic Morlot |
| Dec 18-20 | Handel | Messiah | Paul Agnew |
| Dec 30-31 - Jan 2-3 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Andrew Grams |
| Feb 5 | Feldman | Rothko Chapel | Joseph Crnko |
| Apr 21, 23 & 24 | Szymanowski | Symphony No. 3 | Ludovic Morlot |
| Jun 2 & 4 | Stravinsky | Symphony of Psalms | Ludovic Morlot |
| Jun 15-17 | Shore | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Ludwig Wicki |
2014-2015 Season
| Oct 30-Nov 2 | Mozart | Requiem | Ludovic Morlot |
| Dec 19-21 | Handel | Messiah | Cristian Macelaru |
| Dec 31 - Jan 2-4 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Matthew Halls |
| Jan 29 & 30 | Ives | Symphony no. 4 | Ludovic Morlot |
| Feb 12 & 14 | Berlioz | Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17 | Ludovic Morlot |
| May 15-16 | Vivaldi | Gloria | Stephen Layton |
| Jun 18 & 20 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 in D minor | Ludovic Morlot |
2013-2014
| Sep 15-22 | Borodin | Polovtsian Dances | Ludovic Morlot |
| Nov 21-24 | Verdi | Requiem | Ludovic Morlot |
| Dec 20-22 | Handel | Messiah | Gary Thor Wedow |
| Dec 28 - Jan 4 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Carlos Kalmar |
| Fedb 21-22 | Bach | St. Matthew's Passion | Ludovic Morlot |
| May 18-19 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Stilian Kirov |
| Jun 5-7 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloe | Ludovic Morlot |
2012-2013
| Dec 20-22 | Handel | Messiah | Stephen Stubbs |
| Dec 28 - Jan 4 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Ludovic Morlot |
| Fedb 21-22 | Kancheli | Styx | Andrey Boreyko |
| May 18-19 | Haydn | Mass in B-flat Major | Christian Knapp |
| Jun 5-7 | Britten | War Requiem | Ludovic Morlot |
-
2011-2012
| Nov 10-13, 2011 | Poulenc | Gloria | Robert Spano, conductor |
| Dec 16-18 | Handel | Messiah | Jean-Marie Zeitouni |
| Dec 28-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 22-25 | Schubert | Selections from Rosamunde | Ludovic Morlot |
| May 18-19 | Mozart | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 21-23 | Berlioz | The Damnation of Faust | Ludovic Morlot |
| Jul 12-14 | Holst | The Planets | Ludovic Morlot |
2010-2011
| Dec 16-19, 2010 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 29-Jan 2, 2011 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 20-22 | Mozart | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 27 | Verdi | La Traviata, "Drinking Song" and Aida, "Triumphal Scene" | Gary Thor Wedow |
| Mar 31-Apr 3 | Brahms | Schicksalslied ("Song of Destiny") | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 16-18 | Mahler | Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 24-25 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Alexander Shelley |
2009-2010
| Nov 12-14, 2009 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 9 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 17-20 | Handel | Messiah | Gary Thor Wedow |
| Dec 30-Jan 3, 2010 | Brahms | Liebeslieder Waltzes | Gerard Schwarz |
| | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | |
| Mar 18-21 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloé | Vassily Sinaisky |
| Jun 17-19 | Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 27-27 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Gerard Schwarz |
2008-2009
| Sep 25-28, 2008 | Mahler | Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand" | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 9 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 18-21 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31-Jan 4, 2009 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Feb 12-15 | Fauré | Requiem | JoAnn Falletta |
| May 7-9 | Strauss | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 25-27 | Kernis | Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Meditations" | Gerard Schwarz |
| | Holst | The Planets | |
2007-2008
| Oct 11-14, 2007 | Mozart | Requiem | Carolyn Kuan, conductor |
| Dec 13-16 | Handel | Messiah | Christian Knapp |
| Dec 20 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 28-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 20-22, 2008 | Bach | Mass in B Minor | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 12-15 | Prokofiev | Alexander Nevsky | Xian Zhang |
-
2006-2007
| Dec 14-17, 2006 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 28-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 5-7, 2007 | Beethoven | Missa Solemnis | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-9 | Janáček | Glagolitic Mass | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 28-Jul 1 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jul 12-14 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Carolyn Kuan |
2005-2006
| Dec 15-18, 2005 | Handel | Messiah | Alasdair Neale, conductor |
| Dec 28-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 26-28, 2006 | Mozart | Requiem | Itzhak Perlman |
| Feb 2-5 | Mozart | Great Mass in C Minor | Gerard Schwarz |
| | R. Strauss | Finale from Mozart's Idomeneo | |
| Mar 3-4 | Vivaldi | Gloria | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 15-18 | Walton | Belshazzar's Feast | Gerard Schwarz |
2004-2005
| Nov 4-7, 2004 | Ravel | Suites from Daphnis et Chloë | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| | Jones | Seas of God | |
| Dec 16-19 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 30-Jan 2, 2005 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 14-17 | Mendelssohn | Elijah | Helmut Rilling |
| Apr 28-30 | Schumann | Manfred | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 20-22 | Mozart | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 23-26 | Verdi | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
2003-2004
| Sep 18-21, 2003 | Beethoven | Choral Fantasy | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Nov 13-16 | Holst | Planets | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 20-23 | Bernstein | Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 18-21 | Handel | Messiah | James Judd |
| Jan 2-4, 2004 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 5-7 | Bach | Magnificat | Harry Bicket |
| Apr 8-10 | Schoenberg | A Survivor from Warsaw | Andreas Delfs |
| | Brahms | German Requiem | |
| Jul 8-10 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jul 15-17 | Shore | Lord of the Rings Symphony | Howard Shore |
2002-2003
| Sep 14 | Verdi | Two opera choruses | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Oct 31 | Liszt | A Faust Symphony | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 18-22 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31-Jan 2, 2003 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 23-24 | Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 10-13 | Walton | Te Deum | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 18-20 | Mozart | Requiem | John Nelson |
| May 15 | Estevez | La cantata criolla | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 29-Jun 1 | Bruch | Das Lied von der Glocke | Gerard Schwarz |
-
2001-2002
| Sep 29 | Handel | Excerpts from Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| | Verdi | "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Nabucco | |
| Dec 15-22 | Handel | Messiah | Alastair Willis (1st concert); |
| | | | Christopher Seaman |
| Jan 4-5, 2002 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 24-27 | Mozart | Sancta Maria | Richard Hickox |
| | Mozart | Missa Brevis in C | |
| | Mozart | Requiem | |
| Mar 22-24 | Bach | Mass in B Minor | Bernard Labadie |
| Apr 11-12 | Lazarof | Symphony No. 5 (World Premiere) | Gerard Schwarz |
| | Brahms | Schicksalslied | |
| Jun 6-9 | Schumann | The Paradise of the Peri | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 27-30 | Mahler | Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" | Gerard Schwarz |
2000-2001
| Dec 13-17, 2000 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 29-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 22-24 | Walton | Belshazzar's Feast | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-9 | Hanson | Lament for Beowulf | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-10 | Janácek | Glagolitic Mass | Gerard Schwarz |
1999-2000
| Sep 19 | Handel | Messiah | Abraham Kaplan, conductor |
| Dec 15-17 | Handel | Messiah | George Manahan |
| Dec 29-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 6-7, 2000 | Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 1-11 | Holst | Planets | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 8-9 | Stravinsky | Oedipus Rex | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 15-18 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 | Gerard Schwarz |
1998-1999
| Sep 20 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Abraham Kaplan, conductor |
| | Kaplan | 3 Psalms | |
| Nov 5-8 | Rachmaninov | Three Russian Songs | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 12-15 | Debussy | Nocturnes | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 3-4 | Lazarof | In Celebration (World Premiere) | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 16-19 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 15-16, 1999 | Bach | Magnificat | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 29-May 1 | Taylor | Peter Ibbetson | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 17-20 | Verdi | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
1997-1998
| Sep 15-16, 1997 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Nov 9-11 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 10-11 | Hopkins | Songs of Eternity | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 14-15 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31 | Strauss | Excerpts from Die Fledermaus | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 9-10, 1998 | Stravinsky | Le Rossignol | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 4-5 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloë | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
