Phyllis Byrdwell leads the 100-voice gospel choir in songs of praise, jubilation, and other expressions of the Gospel tradition.
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Program
WORSHIP THE LORD/ I GET EXCITED-----------------------arr. by Phyllis Byrdwell
WHILE YOU WAIT.............................................................. Joe Pace (b. 1965)
LORD, WE GLORIFY YOU..........................................Edwin Hawkins (1943-2018)
soloist: Lynnet Mitchell
YOU ARE MY STRENGTH.............................William Murphy (b. 1973)
soloists: Boon Huish, Sunshine Zhao
SING PRAISES...........................Jonathan Alvarado
EMMANUEL (COME LET US ADORE HIM).......................Norman Hutchins (b. 1962)
(IT WILL GET) BETTER.........................Hezekiah Walker (b. 1962)
soloist: Angela Burgess
TOTAL PRAISE.................................................Richard Smallwood (b. 1948)
UW GOSPEL CHOIR
SOPRANO
Sunshine Zhao, Education,
Communities & Organizations
Margaret Josephson, Pre-Sciences
Kyli Lora, Communications
Becca Vu, Pre-Health
Nicole Burnett, Communications
ALTO
Hayeun So, English
Cathy Zerg, Cinema & Media Studies
Amy Wang, Cinema & Media Studies
Nicole Wong, Business
Anna-Maria Peltomaeki, Finnish
TENOR
James Zheng Cao, Mathematics
Eric Gagliano, Civil Engineering
Zhudin Zheng, Economics
Jackson Brown, Information School
Jeter Arellano, Computer Science
Herojing “Jack” Zhang, ACMS
Should Hao Quek, Pre-Sciences
Boon Huish, Spanish
BASS
Abe Wu, Bioengineering
Yining Li, Economics
Adrian Dinh, Computer Science
Ethan Mah, Microbiology
MUSICIANS:
Phyllis M. Byrdwell, Director & Keyboard
Anthony Brown, Percussion
Tony Mobley, Bass Guitar
Ben Hagan, Keyboard
DIRECTOR BIO
Phyllis Byrdwell, director of the UW Gospel Choir, is Minister of Music at Mount Zion Baptist Church of Seattle and also a music educator for Lakeside School. She has conducted several seminar workshops on Gospel music throughout Washington state and nationally, and served as a songleader for the Baptist World Alliance conference in Birmingham, England in 2005.
Byrdwell was inducted into the Washington Music Educators Association's Hall of Fame in 2002 and serves on the Seattle Symphony Board of Directors.
A School of Music alumna, she holds a bachelor's degree in music and bachelor's and master's degrees in music education.