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Seattle Pro Musica

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Years active
  
1972–present

Record label
  
Seattle Pro Musica

Past members
  
Founder Richard Sparks

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Website
  
www.seattlepromusica.org

Origin
  
Seattle, Washington, United States (1972)

Members
  
Karen P. Thomas, Richard Sparks

Albums
  
Alnight by the Rose, Weihnachten: A German Christmas

Genres
  
A cappella, Classical music, Contemporary classical music

Similar
  
The Esoterics, Seattle Girls Choir, Dale Warland Singers, Dale Warland, Margaret Hillis

Profiles

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Seattle Pro Musica is an American choir, based in Seattle, Washington, performing under the direction of conductor and artistic director Karen P. Thomas. Seattle Pro Musica is widely considered to be one of the finest ensembles in the Pacific Northwest, and has received international recognition and acclaim for its CD recordings and live performances. Seattle Pro Musica has appeared as a featured ensemble on the NPR radio show Saint Paul Sunday, has performed by invitation for the World Festival of Women’s Singing 2004, Festival Vancouver 2003 in Canada, the American Guild of Organists National Convention 2000 and the American Choral Directors Association Northwest Division Conventions 2000 and 2006, as well as numerous Northwest festivals. Seattle Pro Musica produced and hosted the American Masterpieces Choral Festival in 2007, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts' American Masterpieces Choral Initiative.

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Awards

  • Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence
  • ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music
  • Premieres

  • Four Lewis Carroll Songs, Karen P. Thomas, 1989
  • Three Medieval Lyrics, Karen P. Thomas, 1993
  • Lux Lucis, Karen P. Thomas, 2003
  • Veni, Sancte Spiritus, John Muehleisen, 2005
  • Three New Motets, Steven Stucky, 2006
  • Da Pacem, John Muehleisen, 2008
  • Canticum Canticorum IV, Ivan Moody, 2010
  • You Have Ravished My Heart, Karen P. Thomas, 2010
  • I Sing of Love, Bernard Hughes, 2012
  • Wild Nights, Karen P. Thomas, 2013
  • CDs

  • Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil: Vespers (1998)
  • Alnight by the Rose (2001)
  • Weihnachten! A German Christmas (2002)
  • Peace in Our Time (2002)
  • Music of the Spirit (2006)
  • American Masterpieces (2008)
  • Navidad (2009)
  • In Dulci Jubilo (2011)
  • Horizons - digital release (2012)
  • Songs

    Kasar mie la gajiNavidad: Christmas in the New World · 2009
    Luk Luk LumbuIn Dulci Jubilo · 2011
    Balia di SehuNavidad: Christmas in the New World · 2009

    References

    Seattle Pro Musica Wikipedia