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"Laud to the Nativity" - BCC 2011 Holiday Concert
Bellingham Chamber Chorale to Perform "Laud to the Nativity" Holiday Concerts
Bellingham - Bellingham Chamber Chorale will present two holiday concerts entitled, "Laud to the Nativity" at Christ the Servant Lutheran Church, 2600 Lakeway Drive, on Saturday, December 3, at 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and students, and $5 eighteen and under. Tickets can be purchased in Bellingham at Piper Music, Village Books, The Community Co-op, in Lynden at The Noisy Neighbor, at brownpapertickets.com and at the door. For more information visit www.bellinghamchamberchorale.org.
The December concert features Ottorino Respighi's "Laud to the Nativity" for mixed chorus, solo voices and instrumental ensemble along with a wide variety of accompanied and a cappella seasonal choral works ranging from the Renaissance to modern times.
"We've chosen repertoire for these concerts that showcases the full range of Bellingham Chamber Chorale's artistry and the beautiful, intimate acoustics of Christ the Servant church," says Ryan Smit, BCC artistic director and conductor. "We are excited that Amber Sudith Bone and Kathryn Weld will be featured soloists for Respighi's ""Laud to the Nativity", plus a chamber ensemble of regional instrumentalists featuring members of the Whatcom Symphony. Keeping with the theme of the concert, the Chorale will perform three different settings of 'Hodie, Christus natus est', Franz Biebl's 'Ave Maria', and other Christmas choral masterpieces."
In 2011-2012, Bellingham Chamber Chorale celebrates nine years of creating excellence in choral performance with the appointment of Ryan Smit as Artistic Director. BCC was founded in 2003 by Tim Fitzpatrick and has flourished as an intimate, chamber chorale of high quality singers from Whatcom and Skagit Counties presenting diverse and challenging repertoire for its growing audiences.
"Ryan Smit's appointment as Artistic Director of the BCC comes at an opportune time as BCC nears its threshold of being a decade old," said Rico Romano, President of the Board of Directors and choir member. "Ryan's experience with the Grammy-award winning Phoenix Chorale in combination with the robust choral program he has developed in Lynden will continue Tim Fitzpatrick's legacy of excellent, ground-breaking and heart-moving choral music in the north Puget Sound. We look forward to sharing our 2011-2012 concert season, and hope community members join us for our December 3 concerts."
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Ryan Smit, Artistic Director
Bellingham Chamber Chorale is proud to announce that Mr. Ryan Smit has been appointed Artistic Director to lead the group into its second decade. Ryan has taught grades 7-12 choir, general music, and music theory at Lynden Christian School for five years. Under his direction the LCHS Concert Choir was recently invited to sing in Carnegie Hall in a massed choir performance of Beethoven's Mass in C major with John Rutter. He received his undergraduate degree in Choral and Instrumental Music Education from Dordt College (Sioux Center, IA) and a master's degree in Choral Music Education from Arizona State University. He has sung tenor and been an assistant conductor for Bellingham Chamber Chorale, and he has served as chorus master for the Skagit Opera's production of Madame Butterfly. He is the director of the senior choir and hand-bell choir at Third Christian Reformed Church in Lynden. He teaches private voice, serves community choirs and student musicians as a vocal clinician, and performs as a tenor soloist with the Lynden Choral Society. Previously he taught choir, music theory, and guitar at Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona, where he also served as Music Director at Phoenix Christian Reformed Church and sang tenor professionally with Charles Bruffy and the two-time Grammy award-winning Phoenix Chorale for six years.
About Bellingham Chamber Chorale
Bellingham Chamber Chorale has performed regularly and attracted a diverse audience and strong support throughout northwestern Washington. BCC has grown a high level of quality, drawing on the most skilled singers in the area, including WWU faculty and staff, students, and alumni, local voice teachers, and fine singers from all over Whatcom and Skagit counties. BCC's diverse choral repertoire has included Mendelssohn's Elijah, Brahm's Requiem, Rachmaninov's Vespers, a world premiere commission by Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits, Baltic Elegies, collaborations with other local performing arts organizations such as the Whatcom Symphony a concert of Broadway hits, and a range of other works from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The BCC maintains a core of 45 singers and expands seasonally to accommodate larger choral works.
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LocationChrist the Servant Lutheran Church (View)
2600 Lakeway Drive
Bellingham, WA 98229
United States
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