Join us for our performance on Friday evening, October 11, as part of the fourth biennial Seattle Sings Choral Festival, organized by the Greater Seattle Choral Consortium. Opus 7 is one of the featured choirs honoring Northwest composer Morten Lauridsen …
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Announcing Singer Auditions for their 2014-2015 Twenty-Third Annual Concert Season
National Award winning Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble will hold auditions for experienced choral singers for their 2014-2015 23rd-Annual Concert Season on: Monday, August 25, 7:15-9:45 p.m., or at a mutually agreeable time Auditions will be conducted by Loren Pontén, Founder …
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15th Annual Student Choral Composer Awards Program Invitation (2013-2014)
Opus 7 Vocal Ensemble announces our 15th-Annual Student Choral Composition Awards guidelines for 2013-2014. The awards are open to students who are enrolled in High Schools, Colleges, and Universities through the 2013-2014 school year throughout the Northwest Region, including Alaska, …
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Opus 7 wins The American Prize
Opus 7 is proud to be the recipient of the 2013 American Prize in Choral Performance – Community Chorus Division. The American Prize recognizes the best recorded performances by ensembles and individuals each year in the United States
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City A Go Go Minis: Opus 7
Founded in 1992, Opus 7 is a professional resident vocal ensemble at St. James Cathedral that focuses on music from Northwest composers. Click to view this short video:
Christopher DeLaurenti
This resplendent vocal ensemble performs two major works by Northwest composers, Seven Last Words by Bern Herbolsheimer, and the world premiere of Stabat Mater, by Opus 7 composer-in-residence John Muehleisen. Also on the program is choral music by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dupré, and Grechaninov. …
R. M. Campbell, P-I
Opus 7 has been celebrating its 10th year of business all season, which concluded this weekend with a pair of concerts. And rightly so. Along with a handful of other vocal ensembles, Opus 7 is one of the reasons some might …
The Stranger Guide to Seattle
The ensemble-in-residence for the imposingly towered St. James Cathedral offers a fine reminder that whatever excesses Christians of all stripes have committed in the name of God, they’ve also made possible some lovely music.
April 17, 1996 “Early Music in Seattle and How it Grew”
What Seattle’s early music community also has, and has always had, is a collaborative attitude in which everyone helps each other. Today, singers such as tenor David Stutz, soprano Lisa Cardwell Pontén, baritone Vernon Nicodemus, and many others can be …
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