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Sunday 5 May at 3.30pm
Pre-Service Recital
Judith Rough (Soprano)

Wednesday 1 May at 1.15pm
Emerging Artist Concert
Jimmy Park (Violin) & Alexander Yau (Piano)

Wednesday 8 May at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Sophie Chen (Piano)

Sunday 19 May at 4.00pm
Evensong
St Jude's Chamber Choir
Introit: "How lovely are thy dwelling fair" (Brahms)
Service Setting: Stanford in G
Preces and Responses: Rose
Anthem: "ave Verum" (McKern)

Wednesday 22 May at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Diana Weston & Mary Sambell (piano & Harpsichord)

Piano and harpsichord with duo Mary & Me

Duo Mary & Me is Mary Sambell and Diana Weston. With long years of experience behind us, our partnership was formed in friendship and the joy of music, which we love to share with our audiences. Invited back on many occasions to St Jude’s our program on this occasion includes
Claude Debussy: Petite Suite
Francis Poulenc: Sonatine (arr. Diana Weston for harpsichord and piano)
Antonin Dvorak: Silent Woods, Legend

Saturday 25 May at 5.00pm
Pre-Dinner Decital
Hugh Davis (Baritone) and Mackenzie Taylor-Davis (Soprano)
Rowena Hammill (Piano)

Hugh Davis is a tenor aspiring to make a career in both opera and art song. He recently received the 2023 American Opera Society of Chicago Scholarship Award and won second place at the 2022 Seattle Opera Guild’s Singer Development Awards and the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) National Finals. A finalist in the 2022 Handel Aria Competition, he has also recently performed the roles of Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus with Sinfonia da Camera and the title role in Don Giovanni with both the Aquilon Music Festival in Oregon and Voice Area Opera at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Born and raised in Washington State, Mackenzie Taylor-Davis is a committed performer in the Seattle area, participating in their lively operatic and musical theatre scenes. She made her principal role debut with Vashon Opera in 2022 as Valencienne (The Merry Widow) and also performed with the company in their 2021 production of Cavalleria Rusticana. As an Actor’s Equity Membership Candidate, she has performed with the 5th Avenue Theatre, singing in their productions of The Sound of Music (2016) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (2018). Mackenzie is a recent graduate of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Master’s of Music and performed the roles of The Plaintiff (Trial By Jury) and Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus) with Sinfonia da Camera. Mackenzie loves singing alongside her husband Hugh Davis and plans to continue performing in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Originally from Australia, cellist Rowena Hammill graduated with a master’s degree from Indiana University where she was teaching assistant to Janos Starker. She has held professorships at the University of Northern Iowa and California State University Northridge and was Associate Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Presently, she divides her time between her positions as Associate Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Affiliate Artist at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma Washington..

Sunday 26 May at 3.30pm
Pre-Service Recital & Evensong
The Cathedral Singers

Wednesday 29 May at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Brett McKern (Organ)