University Chorale

UW Chorale
Giselle Wyers conducting the combined UW symphony and choirs (Photo: Steve Korn).
Giselle Wyers conducting the combined UW symphony and choirs (Photo: Steve Korn).
University Chorale
Giselle Wyers conducts the University Chorale
UW Chorale
University Chorale

The Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton Chorale is an audi­tioned advanced under­grad­u­ate ensem­ble of music and non-music majors from the Seat­tle cam­pus. UW Chorale appears annually as a guest ensem­ble with the Seat­tle Sym­phony, and has sung in joint con­certs with Revalia Male Cham­ber Choir in Esto­nia, and for the Princess of Swe­den. UW Chorale appeared at the Lat­vian Song Fes­ti­val in Riga, dur­ing the sum­mer of 2013 and the Estonian Festival of Song and Dance in 2019, as one of the only Amer­i­can choirs. Their first two solo CDs, Climb and Refuge, are now available for purchase at iTunesCD Baby or from Dr. Wyers.  A third CD, Resonant Streams, was released in 2018 and was featured in a review by Gramophone magazine. UW Chorale values its community; projects are chosen to highlight the diversity and cross-disciplinary interests of its members.

Auditions

Contact Dr. Wyers at wyersg@uw.edu for more information. 

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Giselle Wyers leads the University Chorale (Photo: UW Photography).
A spring quarter sabbatical in 2025 provided the time and space for Professor Giselle Wyers to complete and debut parts of "The Lips of the Sky," a multi-movement choral work that premiered at Carnegie Hall in May 2026 in a performance presented by MidAmerica Productions. Wyers took the title and text from a poem by  Nicomedes Suárez-Arauz, a poet from the Amazonian region of Bolivia,…
UW Chorale garage rehearsal
Giselle Wyers, chair of the Voice & Chorale departments explains how the UW Chorale has found an unlikely practice space in the campus parking garage.Featured on UW News 
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