City Choir + NSO: Friday Morning Sing - Nov. 1
Join us on Friday, November 1 at The REACH for pre-concert interactive events focusing on singing and wellness!
From 10-11 am on November 1, 2024, join conductor Erin Freeman, assistant conductor Kathleen Jagielski, and singers from the City Choir of Washington at the Kennedy Center’s The REACH ahead of the NSO “coffee concert.” You’ll hear a short performance by members of City Choir featuring excerpts from Haydn’s The Creation, participate in a vocal warmup, and engage in a singalong featuring music chosen by Maestra Freeman to illustrate some of the themes from the NSO’s performance of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.
~ Plus, if you want to hear more of The Creation, with Philip Moody’s elegant English translation, projected titles, and multidimensional staging, Sound Health Friday participants will receive 15% tickets to the City Choir of Washington’s November 24 performance of Haydn’s Creation with the code: SoundHealth. Learn more HERE.
Singing is good for your health! Sound Health Fridays with the City Choir of Washington are a great way to start your day, warm up your voice, body, and soul, and get some unique—and hands-on—insight into the NSO’s concert program of the day led by City Choir’s artistic director Erin Freeman. These fun, free, and innovative pre-concert interactive events focus on singing and wellness.
All are welcome to attend these free events—please join us and sing along (or just sit back and listen)!
Please click HERE to learn more and register for the free morning sing.
Erin Freeman serves in multiple capacities throughout Washington, DC and Virginia, and maintains a national and international presence through guest conducting engagements. Erin 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, the Washington 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 Erin is leading ensembles at Wolf Trap, London’s Cadogan Hall, and Vienna’s Musikverein, in addition to several locations in the Nation’s capital. She will be back at the Kennedy Center June 19-21 , leading the 10,000 Dreams Festival with the Washington Ballet, Singapore Ballet, National Ballet of China, Goh Ballet and more, all with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
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.
Peter Uhlir, Pianist, graduated from Shenandoah University and the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague, Czechia. In addition to being the City Choir of Washington’s collaborative pianist for the last ten years, he is the choral director at the Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn, VA, and the organist and accompanist at the First United Methodist Church in Winchester, VA. When he has a little spare time, Peter enjoys hiking and exploring the outdoors.
