Seattle Pro Musica is an American

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 choir

Choir

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, based in Seattle, Washington, performing under the direction of conductor and artistic director Karen P. Thomas

Karen P. Thomas

Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the...

. Seattle Pro Musica is widely considered to be one of the finest ensembles in the Pacific Northwest

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, and has received international recognition and acclaim for its CD recordings and live performances. Seattle Pro Musica has appeared as a featured ensemble on the NPR

NPR

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 radio show Saint Paul Sunday

Saint Paul Sunday

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, has performed by invitation for the World Festival of Women’s Singing 2004, Festival Vancouver 2003 in Canada, the American Guild of Organists

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 National Convention 2000 and the American Choral Directors Association

American Choral Directors Association

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 Northwest Division Conventions 2000 and 2006, as well as numerous Northwest festivals.
Seattle Pro Musica produced and hosted the American Masterpieces Choral Festival in 2007, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts

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' American Masterpieces Choral Initiative.

Awards

• Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence
• ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music

Premiers

• Four Lewis Carroll Songs, Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the...
  
  , 1989
• Three Medieval Lyrics, Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the...
  
  , 1993
• Lux Lucis, Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the...
  
  , 2003
• Veni, Sancte Spiritus, John Muehleisen, 2005
• Three New Motets, Steven Stucky
  Steven Stucky
  Steven Stucky is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.Stucky was born in Hutchinson, Kansas. At age 9, he moved with his family to Abilene, Texas, where, as a teenager, he studied music in the public schools and, privately, viola with Herbert Preston, conducting with Leo Scheer, and...
  
  , 2006
• Da Pacem, John Muehleisen, 2008
• You Have Ravished My Heart Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas
  Karen P. Thomas, composer and conductor, is the Artistic Director and Conductor of Seattle Pro Musica and Director of Music at University Unitarian Church. With Seattle Pro Musica she has produced six CD recordings, and has received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence and the...
  
  , 2010

CDs

• Rachmaninov's All Night Vigil: Vespers (1998)
• Alnight by the Rose (2001)
• Weihnachten! A German Christmas (2002)
• Peace in Our Time (2002)
• Music of the Spirit (2006)
• American Masterpieces (2008)
• Navidad (2009)

External links

• Seattle Pro Musica - Official Site