Friday, Jan. 12 | 10-11 am : City Choir + NSO Sound Health Friday
Join us FRIDAY, JANUARY 12 at the SKYLIGHT PAVILION of The REACH for a pre-concert interactive event focusing on singing and wellness!
Come enjoy some pre-concert entertainment and sing along with members of the City Choir of Washington.
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Singing is good for your health! Have your morning coffee in the uplifting atmosphere of The Reach and join the City Choir of Washington, Erin Freeman, Artistic Director, for an engaging exploration of the music of two operatic giants: Mozart and Wagner. We'll address the physical and mental stamina that it takes to perform such music, experience why Mozart is considered good for the brain, and learn some of the most famous Wagnerian opera choruses. We'll also go on an interactive tour through the most important themes (or Leitmotifs) in Wagner's epic Ring Cycle. Come early to the concert to learn, connect, listen, and even do a bit of singing! Then, head over to the concert hall to hear the NSO’s performance of The Ring Without Words.
City Choir is thrilled to partner with the NSO in this innovative program, part of the NSO’s Sound Health Fridays initiative.
Please click HERE to learn more and register for the free morning sing.
SPECIAL OFFER: Sound Health Friday attendees receive 20% off tickets to the Friday morning performance of The Ring Without Words with the code: FRIENDNSO
Erin Freeman serves in multiple capacities throughout Washington, DC and Virginia, and maintains a national and international presence through guest conducting engagements. Freeman is Artistic Director of the City Choir of Washington and Wintergreen Music, Resident Conductor of the Richmond Ballet, and Director of Choral Studies at the Corcoran School of Art and Design. She led the Richmond Symphony Chorus for 15 years and was also Associate Conductor from 2007-2014. Guest conducting includes the New York City Ballet, Buffalo Philharmonic, Neglia Ballet, Orchestra Symphonique Bel’Arte, South Carolina Philharmonic, Savannah Philharmonic, and the Detroit, Toledo, Portland, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Williamsburg Symphony Orchestras. She has conducted at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Boston Symphony Hall, and La Madeleine in Paris, and was recently named nominee (2021) and finalist (2019) for Performance Today’s Classical Woman of the Year. Freeman holds degrees from Northwestern University, Boston University, and Peabody Conservatory. In 2023-24 Freeman will lead ensembles at Wolf Trap, London’s Cadogan Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein, in addition to several locations in the Nation’s capital.
Katie Jagielski is director of The City Singers, City Choir's engagement ensemble and Assistant Conductor of the City Choir of Washington. She earned her Bachelor’s of Music Education from Shenandoah University and her Master’s of Music in Vocal Pedagogy from The Catholic University of America. Since 2005, Katie has worked in the area actively as a singer and teacher and has directed choruses and vocal ensembles for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, and Charles County Public Schools, and is currently in her eighth year as the Choral Director at Trailside Middle School with Loudoun County Public Schools. Katie has served as the music director for many theatrical productions in Charles and Loudoun County Public Schools, and has helped to create music for many churches in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area.
Pianist Peter Uhlir graduated from Shenandoah Univeristy and the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague, the Czech Republic. In addition to being the accompanist for the City Choir of Washington for the last nine years, he is the choral director at the Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn, Virginia and Daniel the organist and accompanist at the First United Methodist Church in Winchester Virginia. When he has a little spare time, Peter enjoys hiking and exploring the outdoors.
