by Celia Wu As a middle schooler, Coty Raven Morris would hand her choir teachers her lunch money and pretend it was payment for a choir trip. She couldn’t afford it and was too scared to ask. Her teachers found ways to get her to summer camp anyway. Today Morris …
Columbia Choirs of Metropolitan Seattle welcomes Grammy-nominated educator, composer, and sought-after conductor and speaker Coty Raven Morris for its 2026 Guest Artist Residency Week running November 3–7, 2026. Coty’s work throughout the week will focus on music as a tool for connection, health, and wellbeing. Throughout the week, Coty will …
This school year, Columbia Choirs has launched five new enrichment choirs across Lake Washington School District in response to access gaps in the district. Thanks to funding from 4Culture, Columbia Choirs is now providing transformative choral experiences to over 120 new young singers across five schools. photos: Lars Myren For …
Finding Me, Seeing You This season, our choirs embark on a journey from inward reflection to outward awareness. Through music that invites us to consider our own identities and wellbeing, we will turn slowly outward—toward compassion, connection, and our shared humanity. At the heart of the season is a single …
By Celia Wu Creating a new choral work that tells stories of identity and belonging Eric Tuan began his musical journey at the age of seven, when he began singing with the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir. By age nine, he started composing short piano pieces. By the time Eric …
Tales of Journey, Notes of Home This season, our choirs will explore powerful stories through the concepts of Journey and Home—of people leaving, searching, arriving, and remembering. We will lift up voices shaped by migration, transformation, and resilience, as well as songs that celebrate the comfort and complexity of home. Through this theme, …
After our 2021-22 Season, filled with many triumphs returning to in-person singing in the rehearsals room, concert hall, and in our community, we turn our focus towards centering humanity and building strong relationships through choir. This season, as Columbia Choirs enters its 39th year of music-making, we will celebrate “A …
