Shaker Harmonies: Celebrating 250 Years of the Shakers in America

The Tudor Choir, directed by Doug Fullington, and Saint Mark’s Women’s Compline, directed by Rebekah Gilmore, will sing arrangements of Shaker hymns by Kevin Siegfried spanning the last 250 years in a celebration of their music, and their continuing peaceful, artistic, and all-welcoming movement.

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Founded by Doug Fullington in 1993, the Tudor Choir is a Seattle-based vocal chamber ensemble hailed as “a superb choir” (Gramophone) and “a choir to watch” (Fanfare). The choir most recently was a resident ensemble at historic Blessed Sacrament Church in Seattle’s University District from 2008 to 2015 and currently gives periodic performances. The choir has also been Artists-in-Residence at St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle; a Resident Ensemble at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Medina; and a Guest Choral Artist at St. James Cathedral, Seattle.

​The Tudor Choir specializes in Renaissance polyphony and also has been acclaimed for its performances of early American and contemporary music. The choir has performed extensively throughout the Pacific Northwest, including concert appearances in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Portland, Oregon, and has made guest appearances with the Mark Morris Dance Group, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, and Early Music Guild of Seattle. The choir made its East Coast debut in December 2012, performing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and in Pennsylvania. The Tudor Choir has made a number of recordings for the Loft, Gothic, and Scribe labels.

​The Tudor Choir also has cultivated relationships with a number of world-renowned conductors and especially with Peter Phillips, director of the Tallis Scholars. Mr. Phillips has conducted the choir in a number of concerts, including joint performances with members of the Tallis Scholars each year at the Tallis Scholars Summer School USA in Seattle since its inception in 2005. The choir also has sung under the direction of Stephen Cleobury (King's College, Cambridge), Martin Haselböck (Vienna), Paul Hillier (Hilliard Ensemble, Theatre of Voices), and Andrew Parrott (Taverner Choir).

In the summer of 2019, the Office of Compline was chanted by an ensemble of women for the first time in the six-decade history of Compline at Saint Mark's Cathedral, Seattle.

These beautifully-sung services were deeply moving to many. In the word of choir director Rebekah Gilmore, "We have many decades—generations worth of women who have wanted to sing Compline at Saint Mark's." And so the decision was made to make the an annual tradition at Saint Mark's each summer. In the summer of 2020, of course, a gathering of the full choir was not possible, and the Women's Compline Choir was represented by just . In the summer of 2021, a full complement of singers chanted the office, but the service remained .

At last in 2022, a full choir featuring some of the finest choral singers in the region returned to chant a service open to one and all. As in the past, the services featured special repertoire for women's voices, including world-premiere compositions

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