Compline Choir: The Office of Compline

Every Sunday evening at 9:30 p.m. in the Cathedral's nave, the Compline Choir leads this formal choral service that is a Seattle tradition. An average audience of 500 packs the Cathedral each week for this meditative service. Many more listen to the broadcast on KING-FM, 98.1 on the radio dial. Some weeks, informal organ recitals follow Compline at around 10 p.m.

The Compline Choir at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, the men’s choir which has sung the popular night prayer service of Compline every Sunday at 9:30pm for over 60 years, will take a rare hiatus in August to make a pilgrimage to two of England’s most prominent and historic cathedrals: Canterbury and Salisbury. While the men’s choir is away, on August 11, 18, and 25, the Compline service will, for the first time at the cathedral, be sung by women, with the Women’s Compline Choir of Saint Mark’s Cathedral assembled especially for this occasion.

While the Compline Choir is on pilgrimage, the service in Seattle will be sung by the Women’s Compline Choir of Saint Mark’s Cathedral. Comprised of 20 female singers, this choir includes some of the most accomplished professional musicians, leaders of church music, and music teachers in the Seattle area. Members have sung with The Byrd Ensemble, the Tudor Choir, and the Mägi Ensemble, among others. Rebekah Gilmore, Associate Musician and Choir School Director at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, will direct the choir. The services will include world premieres of new works commissioned especially for this unprecedented event.

The live Classical 98.1 KING-FM radio and internet broadcast will continue as usual on August 11, 18, and 25; posting of the Compline podcasts for these dates may be delayed until early September.

About The Compline Choir of Saint Mark's

http://complinechoir.org/