Seattle Peace Chorus

Seattle Peace Chorus announces our 2025-2026 season and welcomes our new music director!

Seattle Peace Chorus 2025-2026 Season
Resilience: the Courage to Dream

The theme of our 2025-2026 season is Resilience: the Courage to Dream. We welcome singers near and far to join us to sing music that courageously imagines the world we want to inhabit together. By remembering the wisdom of our ancestors and drawing from the strength of our kindreds around the globe, we will tell stories of resilience to light the way forward.

Resilience: Sources of Strength

The Seattle Peace Chorus presents our fall concert, Resilience: Sources of Strength. In times of fear and great uncertainty, we stand upon the shoulders of our ancestors. By sharing stories and songs of resilience from our kindreds, we channel their courage and our common humanity. We will sing the music of sages and poets including Ysaye Barnwell, Mari Valverde, Moses Hogan, Paul Simon, Brandon Boyd, Elaine Hagenburg, Andrea Ramsey, Abbie Betinis, and Arianne Abela.

Save the Date!

Resilience: Sources of Strength
7:30 pm Saturday 22 November 2025
and 3:00 pm Sunday 23 November 2025
in the University District

Will Rand, Seattle Peace Chorus Music Director

Seattle Peace Chorus welcomes Will Rand, our new music director. Will is a creative artist who is passionate about spiritual wholeness, social justice, ecological wellness, and building new communal practices of healing in our world. Will has facilitated storytelling festivals where people shared stories of their lives, concerts cultivating a multiplicity of creative disciplines, and communal gathering spaces where people come to heal and be spiritually renewed. As the founder of EarthStory, a project pursuing ecological wholeness, Will draws together creative artists, storytellers, and community members to remember their stories of belonging in the biotic community.

Will is a conductor, composer, and collaborative pianist who has shared music with choirs, orchestras, and chamber ensembles throughout the United States and abroad. Will’s deep passion is creating in collaboration with co-conspirators who share the intention of bringing more healing, joy, and grace into the world.

For more information, you can learn more about EarthStory, listen to the EarthStory podcast on Substack, and visit Will’s website.

Thank You to Everyone for Supporting Seattle Peace Chorus

We have completed our 2024-2025 season with two concerts featuring “Let America Be America Again” with text by Langston Hughes, composed by Frederick N. West. The words of Langston Hughes are extremely relevant today, and Saturday 7 June 2025 is considered the best ever performance of this work. If you missed it, the recording is here: https://youtube.com/live/oriHGVeihDA.

Thank You to our 2025 Sponsors

Our recent concerts have been supported by:

Membership in Seattle Peace Chorus

Singing together, in concert halls and during marches and demonstrations, has always been a part of how Seattle Peace Chorus promotes messages of peace and justice, but membership in Seattle Peace Chorus has always meant more than singing together. Help us in these times to continue to reach out to change people’s hearts and minds.

Your regular dues as a member of Seattle Peace Chorus entitle you to participate in all our activities without further fees. If you choose not to become a regular member of Seattle Peace Chorus, however, you may pay a modest fee to offset the cost of hiring technicians and musicians to bring virtual experiences to fruition.

If you have not previously joined as a member of Seattle Peace Chorus, to sign up to participate please fill out an audition request form and tell us how you’d like to participate.

Members past and present may sign up by contacting us at info@seattlepeacechorus.org.

We urge everyone to support organizations that promote peace, protect our planet, and fight for the underprivileged. See this list of organizations that we support.

For both singers and listeners, the Seattle Peace Chorus provides a unique choral experience. Our commitment to peace and social justice creates a special bond among members and with our audience.

Our repertoire, reflecting our multi-cultural, multi-national focus, ranges from spirituals and gospel to Mozart and Beethoven, from South African freedom songs to the original works of our director Fred West.

Performances often include an exciting range of instrumentalists from Cuban drummers to chamber orchestras. This rich variety is sustained by our commitment to using a collaborative process for decision making, enabling members to influence repertoire decisions through a committee that any member can join.

In addition to traveling to countries such as the former Soviet Union, Chile, Cuba, and Venezuela, and performing two major concerts a year, we support peace and community activities by singing at rallies, marches, fundraisers for disaster relief, and similar events.

If our unique approach to choral music appeals to you, consider joining us as a singer, volunteer, or financial supporter—or simply come to our concerts and be inspired.

Because of the developing SARS-CoV2 virus and the COVID-19 illness that it causes, we urge everyone to be especially careful to take care of yourself and those whom you love.

Thank you everyone who helps support the Seattle Peace Chorus.