SATURDAY, OCT 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM

Holy Rosary Catholic Church

4139 42nd Ave SW, Seattle

SUNDAY, OCT 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Trinity Parish Church

609 8th Ave, Seattle

In celebration of Palestrina’s 500th anniversary, the Byrd Ensemble presents a program of Renaissance polychoral music by Palestrina and his contemporaries. The centerpiece of the program is the Missa Cantantibus organis Caecilia, written by seven Roman musicians who each composed different parts of the Mass using themes from Palestrina’s motet of the same name. The result is a spectacular Mass setting for twelve voices in triple choir that demonstrates the breadth of the Roman style in this single work. The program also includes a new work by British composer Kerensa Briggs inspired by Palestrina's Stabat Mater, commissioned by the Byrd Ensemble.

PALESTRINA: Magnificat 

PALESTRINA: Tribulationes civitatum 

VICTORIA: Versa est in luctum 

BRIGGS: New commission 

PALESTRINA: Stabat mater 

PALESTRINA: Cantantibus organis 

PALESTRINA: Missa Cantantibus organis Caecilia