We are currently booking for the 2024-2025 concert season. For more information, please contact our manager, Marianne LaCrosse.
View concert proposals here.
"A wonderfully crystalline performance"
- GRAMOPHONE
"[The Byrd Ensemble] exploit a brighter part of the color palette, enabling perfect intonation and balance."
- OREGON ARTS WATCH
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ALLEGRI MISERERE
Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Holy Rosary Church - 4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116
Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Trinity Parish Church - 609 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
Sunday, May 11, 2024
Virtual Concert
The centerpiece of this program of Renaissance and modern music is Allegri’s Miserere. The work was exclusively sung by the Sistine Chapel Choir, though legend says that a 14-year old Mozart visited Rome and wrote out the piece perfectly from memory after just one hearing, sending the Vatican’s guarded secret into the world. The psalm setting is famously known for a high C, sung by a soprano soloist.
The program also features two elaborate psalm settings by English Renaissance composers Robert White and John Sheppard and motets by modern composers John Tavener, Eric Whitacre, and Arvo Pärt.
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INTERNATIONAL RENAISSANCE COURSE 2024
JULY 8-15, 2024 | LISBON, PORTUGAL
THE GOLDEN AGE OF PORTUGUESE POLYPHONY
Magalhães, Lobo, Cardoso
We are pleased to announce that our Renaissance course 2024 will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, July 8-15, 2024. The course will explore Renaissance polyphony by Portuguese composers, including Filipe de Magalhães (c. 1571–1652), Duarte Lobo (1565-1646) and Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650).
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