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. 

Latest News

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,…
Professor Giselle Wyers. Photo: Danielle Barnum.
An exceptionally full year finds Giselle Wyers immersed in multiple large projects both at the University and beyond. Head of the School of Music's choral conducting and voice programs and director of the University Chorale (an auditioned ensemble of UW undergraduates), she also is in demand as a clinician and as a composer of commissioned choral works. Professor…
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