Friday, Oct. 6 | 9:30-11:00 am : City Choir + NSO Sound Health Friday
Join us FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 at STUDIO F of The REACH for a pre-concert interactive event focusing on singing and wellness!
Come enjoy coffee, pastries, and some pre-concert entertainment with members of the City Choir of Washington.
Scroll down to meet Friday morning’s artists.
The REACH at the Kennedy Center
Singing is good for your health! Have your morning coffee in the uplifting atmosphere of The Reach, come hear singers of the City Choir of Washington perform a short set of well-known pieces, and raise your own voice in song with a sing along of old favorites and Italian songs in celebration of Maestro Noseda’s birthday and the Respighi concert. Then head over to the Kennedy Center concert hall for the NSO’s performance of Ottorino Respighi’s Roman Trilogy.
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.
Meet Friday Morning’s Artists
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 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 23-24 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. 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.
Wei-Han Wu, pianist. Described as "brilliant" by the Pittsburgh Tribune, pianist Wei-Han Wu has performed in such venues as the Chicago Cultural Center, the Kennedy Center, and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. He has been a featured performer at the Tanglewood, Aspen, Castleton, Lake George, and Walla Walla Chamber Music Festivals. Dedicated to the performance and promotion of new music, Mr. Wu is currently pianist for The Washington Chorus and [Switch~ Ensemble] and performs regularly with the Washington Bach COnsort, the Exigence Vocal Ensemble of the Sphinx Organizations, and Zach Sheets, flutist as Duo Axis. He previously served as pianist for the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and the president of OSSIA New Music. A member of Pi Kappa Lambda, he is the recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Juilliard School, the Felicia Montealegre Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Collaborative Piano Fellowship from Bard College. He holds degrees from Northwestern, University of Michigan, and the Eastman School of Music.
April 28, 2023 Sound Health Friday Morning Sing with Erin Freeman and the City Choir of Washington