Upcoming Perfomances

Monteverdi Book 8- Songs of Love and War
8pm, November 7, 2014
Nordstrom Recital Hall

Reserved seating: $40
Seniors: $35
Under 25: $10
Children 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult (contact [email protected] call 206 708 6003)

Monteverdi had an extraordinarily long career, composing some of his most important and revolutionary works in his 70’s. His last book of madrigals became the repository of the most important secular works of his final decades. Love songs were of course nothing new, but setting them next to the stirring rhythms of his newly invented depiction of war in music gives this repertoire unparalleled contrasts.

Featuring Catherine Webster, soprano; mezzo Danielle Reuter-Harrah, countertenor Reggie Mobley, tenors Ross Hauck and Aaron Sheehan and baritone Douglas Williams with Stephen Stubbs leading PMW’s chamber ensemble including violinists Tekla Cunningham and Linda Melsted, gambist Elisabeth Reed and harpist Maxine Eilander.

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J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio - Cantatas 1, 3 and 6
A collaboration with Early Music Vancouver

Performance 1 - 7:30pm, December 17, 2014 - Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 4400 86th Ave, Mercer Island

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Performance 2 - 8pm, December 19, 2014 - St James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave, Seattle

SOLD OUT!

Reserved seating: $40
Seniors: $35
Suggested donation at the door: $35
Under 25: $10
Children 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult

The joyous festivity of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is too rarely heard in America. Celebrate the holiday season with a collection of North America’s best period instrumentalists and vocal soloists in this festive performance of three of Bach’s six Christmas Oratorio Cantatas. An exciting new regional collaboration featuring multiple presenters in the Pacific Northwest, and co-produced with Early Music Vancouver.

Soprano, Tess Wakim
Mezzo Soprano, Krisztina Szabó
Tenor, Zachary Finkelstein
Baritone, Sumner Thompson

An American Tune
8pm March 21, 2015
Nordstrom Recital Hall

Reserved seating: $40
Seniors: $35
Under 25: $10
Children 7 - 12 free with accompanying ticketed adult (contact [email protected] call 206 708 6003)

There is a growing awareness among early music performers in this country that we may be able to apply our viewpoint - taking earlier European music seriously on its own terms and in its original state - to the vast subject of America’s own musical history. This program takes the era and music of Stephen Foster as our point of departure for a new musical adventure. All of these performers have grown up with one foot in the early music camp and one in some form of American traditions. Come and find out if we can walk with both feet!

Artistic Director Stephen Stubbs will be playing an original 19^th century guitar with soprano Catherine Webster; Tekla Cunningham and Brandon Vance, violins, Tom Berghan, banjo and John Reischman, mandolin.

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Mozart's The Magic Flute
7:30pm May 8 & 9, 2015 2:00pm May 10, 2015

A collaboration with UW School of Music.

$65 General

$40 Senior

$25 students, $10 UW students.

Up to two free Youth (ages 5 - 19) tickets available per Regular price ticket purchased.

One of Mozart’s crowning achievements, the Magic Flute is a potent alchemical mixture of popular music and theater with a depth of meaning that is still mysterious and controversial. The fact that Mozart had steeped himself in the music of Handel and Bach in the years leading up to Magic Flute makes it also a personal testament to his admiration for their art. Our production will combine an entirely new staging conception by stage director Dan Wallace Miller, with new dialogue by Karen Hartman, and with one of the reigning “Queen’s of the Night” in our time, Cyndia Sieden.

Hear Mozart's beloved opera, conducted by Stephen Stubbs, performed in the Northwest’s first historically informed performance with a classical orchestra.

Cast in order of appearance:

Tamino Ross Hauck
Papageno Geoffrey Penar
Pamina Mary Feminear
The Queen of the Night Cyndia Sieden
Papagena Emma Grimsley
Sarastro Colin Ramsey
First lady Holly Boaz
Second Lady Celeste Godin
Third Lady Julia Benzinger
Monostatos Alex Mansoori
Speaker of the temple Matthew Scollin

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