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Concord is an auditioned, community-based mixed choir for experienced singers college-age and above. In 2025, they were awarded second place in the American Prize’s community choir division. Concord relishes the opportunity to workshop with living composers, creating fresh interpretations; recent collaborators include Eriks Esenvalds, Timothy Takach, Moira Smiley, Robert Kyr and Katerina Gimon. Concord meets three times a month to prepare music for each concert during the year. Rehearsals are fast-paced and fun as singers work together to produce a high-quality sound and rich performance skills. Members connect over their shared passion for music and find great friends that extend outside of the choir.
Singers will be invited to sing with Concord after brief audition with Giselle Wyers.
SINGERS
Adult singers, mixed voices
REHEARSALS
Wednesdays 7:15–9:15 p.m.
Bothell, WA
TUITION
$52 / month (September-June)
Learn more about all costs to participate and available financial aid.
Giselle Wyers
Concord Conductor
Giselle Wyers is the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington, where she conducts the award-winning University Chorale and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in choral conducting and music education. Her chorus Concord Chamber Choir placed second in the nation within the community choir category of the esteemed American Prize in 2025. Recent projects include Head Jury Member for the Busan International Choral Festival (Korea), as well as an appearance with Concord and partnering choirs in Carnegie Hall premiering her composition The Lips of the Sky (a choral cycle for chorus and string orchestra). In Spring of 2027, she will conduct the North Dakota All-State mixed choir, as well as taking Concord on a tour of the Tri-Cities region of Washington state.
Wyers’ work with educational honor choirs and all-state choruses is extensive, taking her to New York (Lincoln Center), Kansas, Wisconsin, Georgia, Missouri, Louisiana, Connecticut, Nebraska, Texas, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Texas and Vancouver, Canada. She has conducted semi-professional ensembles across the United States and in Germany, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Sweden. In addition to her career in conducting, Wyers has over 35 commissioned compositions in her catalog. Wyers is especially dedicated to composing works that explore the beauty, mystery and heartbreak we all experience as modern citizens in a complicated world. She is honored to have her choral works discussed in the new 2025 GIA publication Choral Music by Women Composers. Contact
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