2025 SUMMER CONCERT SERIES
JULY 1, 7 PM
Woodland Park Presbyterian
Recorder Consort
Recorder music, ancient and modern.
JULY 10, 7 PM
St. John United Lutheran
Classical Guitar and Danish Desserts!
Mark Wilson, director of the Seattle Guitar Orchestra, will perform pieces by Danish composers Henrik Rung and Lars Hegaard, plus Ukrainian music and Mark’s own compositions inspired by Seattle trolls.
Pastries afterward provided by the Northwest Danish Association! More info on Mark’s music at on website and YouTube channel.
JULY 17, 7 PM
Woodland Park Presbyterian
Coffee Cantata – The Musical
Music by J.S. Bach, Lyrics by Nathan Jensen
A read-and-sing-through of a new version of Bach’s Cantata about a young woman who just…won’t…give…up…her coffee!! In addition to updating the 18th century German, SJU Music Director Nathan Jensen has added musical-style plots and subplots to this light, secular piece.
JULY 28, 7 PM
Woodland Park Presbyterian
Come as You Are Sing-Along
Sing pop, rock, and show tunes around the piano! Officiated by J Kyle Wilsor, WPP Music Director, composer, and former pianist at Marie’s Crisis Cafe, a Broadway show tunes piano bar in NYC. Bring your requests!
AUGUST 7, 7 PM
St. John United Lutheran
Michael Carroll, Piano
Music by Bach, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti, Sakamoto & Joplin.
As an experienced choral and vocal accompanist, Michael Carroll has performed with many Seattle ensembles and soloists. For ten years he was also the staff pianist and program annotator for Seattle’s Thalia Symphony Orchestra.
AUGUST 13, 7 PM
St. John United Lutheran
“Boundless,” an orchestral pops concert
featuring community-selected songs and composers from historically marginalized communities.
End-of-the-season full orchestra concert! Northwest Pops is a 26-piece orchestra of professional musicians, conducted by Joseph Pollard White. This project is supported, in part, by a grant from King County 4Culture.
Free Admission
Program will include:
Gioachino Rossini: Barber of Seville Overture
Frederick Delius: On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring
Johann Strauss II: Perpetuum Mobile
Clara Schumann: Scene Fantastique from Quatre Pieces Characteristiques
Jacques Offenbach: Galop Infernal (Can Can)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Florence Price: Juba Dance
Scott Joplin: Treemonisha Overture
Cole Porter Favorites
Joe Hisaishi, Merry-Go-Round of Life from Howl’s Moving Castle