Season’s Greetings from the Bainbridge Chorale
Bask in the Bainbridge Chorale’s podcast presentation of holiday music from past Christmas concerts in the episode premiering December 11. The podcast will be hosted by the Chorale’s Artistic Director, Michael Austin Miller, and will feature works composed by Miller and Mendelssohn, as well as selections from Handel’s Messiah, among other holiday favorites. Please note, this episode will be available to listeners only until January 11 due to licensing restrictions.
Episode Premieres: December 11
Tune in to:
BainbridgePerformingArts.org
Drive-In Community Caroling
Join us for Drive-In Community Caroling
an event to benefit Helpline House!
Looking for a way to get a sense of community and holiday spirit? Pack up the kids, warm holiday drinks and treats, and celebrate the season with us!
What? Come and SING traditional carols and holiday songs with us in the safety of your own car! We will provide sanitized song sheets and will use your FM radio to host and transmit piano accompaniment.
When? December 20 at 2:00 p.m.
Where? Bethany Lutheran Church parking lot, 7968 Finch Rd NE, Bainbridge Island, corner of Finch Road and High School Road.
Helpline House Benefit: Please support our neighbors and bring non-perishable food items, cash or checks made out to Helpline House to donate.
Questions? email info@bainbridgechorale.org
And please consider supporting the Chorale during the One Call for All giving campaign that support nonprofits serving Bainbridge Island. Ticket sales provide only about a quarter of the income necessary to present our concerts, host public events like the Messiah Sing-along, and support our youth program, the Bainbridge Youth Choir.
Help us keep the music coming by clicking on the link below to make a donation!
The Bainbridge Chorale is currently registered with the Washington State Secretary of State under the charitable solicitation act as required by law. The registration number 36994. More information is available at 1-800-332-4483, or www.sos.wa.gov/charities
Donate to the Chorale through One Call for All here!
THANK YOU!
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
We regret that this concert, originally scheduled for April 2020, has been cancelled in light of the covid-19 pandemic. Although this is disappointing news for all of us, the health and safety of our performers and audiences is our first concern. We plan to reschedule it in April 2022.
Melodious and sumptuous, Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, Op.45 (A German Requiem) is not a lament for the dead, but a message of comfort and hope for the living, unique in choral history. We are excited to present this masterwork in collaboration with the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and soloists Charles Robert Stephens and Janeanne Houston.
Mr. Stephens has been hailed by The New York Times as a baritone of smooth distinction. In his two decades in New York City, he has sung several roles with the New York City Opera and on numerous occasions at Carnegie Hall.
Based now in Seattle, Mr. Stephens has sung as soloist with the Seattle Symphony six times and is very active with orchestras throughout the Pacific Northwest, including the orchestras of Tacoma, Spokane, Bellingham, Walla Walla and Yakima.
He is on the voice faculty at Pacific Lutheran University and teaches privately in Seattle.
Soprano Janeanne Houston is a versatile performer, and one of the Northwest regions busiest artists. Her extensive repertoire
spans the Baroque era to the present. She has worked under the
batons of many fine conductors including Gerard Schwarz, James
DePreist, Sidney Harth, Dean Williamson, Richard Sparks, Christophe Chagnard, and Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Concert works that she has performed many times include Carmina Burana, Messiah, Requiems of Brahms, Verdi, and Mozart, and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. The managing and founding member of Northwest Artists and the recording label Elmgrove Productions, she has been a member of the voice faculty at Pacific Lutheran University since 1989.
The Bainbridge Youth Choir: sharing a passion for singing
In August 2019 the Olympic Girls’ Choir changed its name to the Bainbridge Youth Choir, in keeping with its expanded mission of accepting boys as well as girls into the program. Serving youth ages 5 through high school residing on Bainbridge Island and in the Kitsap area, the choir provides a transformative experience through high-quality, diverse choral music education which emphasizes teamwork, encourages self-discipline, and fosters a deep commitment to artistic excellence. Along with music theory, sight reading, vocal technique and ensemble singing, the students learn to be musicians in the context of a choir community. Repertoire is varied, ranging from traditional choral literature to current favorites, with each session culminating in a concert. As well, singers perform in the adult Chorale Family Holiday Concert, and in various other venues on the Island.
The choir is comprised of four ensembles, Encora (non-auditioned, Meet-the-Director appointment required), for students in Grades 2 and 3, Cantabile (auditioned) for students in Grades 4 – 6, and the Chamber Choir (auditioned) for ages 12 and up, plus the newly-formed Prep Choir serving boys and girls in Grades K-1 (non-auditioned, Meet-the-Director appointment required) .
Fall 2020 auditions will be held online in September.
Please email Bainbridgeyouthchoir@gmail.com for more information about scheduling an audition.
For more information about the Youth Choir, visit their website: Bainbridge Youth Choir
Auditions for the 2020-2021 season
Due to the cancellation of our Fall 2020 concert session, auditions will be rescheduled until a later date, depending on when we can resume normal operations.
When auditions resume they will be held at:
Bethany Lutheran Church
7968 Finch Rd NE
Bainbridge Island 98110
For information about the audition process and membership in the Chorale, go to the Audition page, e-mail info@bainbridgechorale.org, or call 206-780-2467.
Thanks
Bainbridge Chorale is supported in part by the BCF Discretionary Grant Fund, the Dubois Family Fund, Plan B Fund, Gloria Collins Brownell Fund, and Dee Axelrod at the Bainbridge Community Foundation, and by the Kitsap Community Foundation. Other sponsors who support our productions, operations and outreach activities are:
Rotary of Bainbridge Island, One Call for All, the Kitsap Great Give, Bainbridge Organic Distillers, Cooper Fuel, and the City of Bainbridge Island
