Phyllis Byrdwell leads the UW Gospel choir in a program of music from the Gospel tradition.
Program
Wonderful Is Your Name- Hezekiah Walker
Joy! Joy! joy!-Tommy Walker
Sam Klebanoff, soloist
I’ll Tell It! - New Jersey Mass Choir
Shayla Sutliff, Knowledge Ortiz-Do, soloists
Free At Last - arr. Byrdwell (Excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech)
Felisha Barnes, soloist
O Happy Day! - Edwin Hawkins
The Lord Is My Light -Andre Crouch
Dr. Patricia Hunter, soloist
Smile - Kirk Franklin
How Excellent! - Florida Mass Choir
Worship The Lord/I Get Excited - Edwin Hawkins/ Bishop GE Patterson (medley) arr. Byrdwell
UW Gospel Choir, Winter 2025
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Biography
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.