TWO (NON-CONSECUTIVE) SUNDAYS: JUNE 29 AND AUGUST 24, 2025, 9:30 P.M., in the cathedral nave, broadcast, and livestreamed
Following their debut in the summer of 2019, the Women's Compline Choir, led by Saint Mark's Associate Musician Rebekah Gilmore, has become an annual tradition at Saint Mark's, chanting the Office of Compline in place of the all-male Compline Choir and presenting special repertoire for women's voices, including world-premiere compositions and arrangements.
In the summer of 2019, the men of the Compline Choir traveled to the U.K. for two weeks, serving residencies in Canterbury and Salisbury. To cover the services during absence, Saint Mark's Associate Musician Rebekah Gilmore was asked to assemble an all-female choir, comprising some of the most accomplished choral singers in the Seattle area. The services they sang, the first all-female services in the 63-year history of Compline at Saint Mark's, were deeply moving to many. The Women's Compline Choir now gathers to chant the service a few times each year, usually during the summer. (This included a quartet of women's voices in the summer of 2020.) These service can be seen and heard in the videos and recordings below on this page.
In the past, the choir has chanted Compline on a few Sundays in a row each year, but this year, for the first time, the Women's Compline Choir services are on two non-consecutive Sundays two months apart: June 29 and August 24.
More details about the 2025 Women's Compline Choir services will be posted here as they become available.
REPERTOIRE FOR AUGUST 24, 2025:
Shaker Song, arr. Kevin Siegfried – Angels of Peace
Sheila Bristow – Psalm 103 (world premiere)
Joseph Barnby – Now the day is over [tune: Merrial]
Carolus Andreas – Nunc dimittis Tone VIII
Joan Szymko – Oración por la Paz
REPERTOIRE FOR JUNE 29, 2025:
Dmitry Bortniansky – Let my prayer arise like incense - [Да исправится молитва моя]
Doug Fullington – Psalm 16
The Southern Harmony, arr. G. Bloch – Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult - [tune: Restoration]
Linda Kachelmeier – Nunc dimittis
John Sheppard – In pace, in idipsum
