Evergreen Ensemble closes Season 3 with To Look West, the world premiere of a new multi-movement work by Connor Koppin, written for choir, string quartet, and piano.

Rooted in the landscapes, history, and memory of the Pacific Northwest, To Look West reflects on the relationship between people and the places they love. Drawing on texts by early and influential regional figures, including writer Ella Rhoads Higginson, botanist David Douglas, and explorer and mapmaker David Thompson, the work meditates on how natural spaces become vessels of memory across time.

The program will also include works by Morten Lauridsen, Gabriela Lena Frank, Ola Gjeilo, Kevin Puts, Becky McGlade, Jocelyn Hagen, and Timothy C. Takach, with music that reflects on light, landscape, creation, rootedness, and blessing.

Together, these works create a path toward the full premiere of To Look West, which closes the program in its entirety. The concert invites listeners to consider how beauty, memory, and place shape us, and how the natural world can become a witness to the lives and loves we carry with us.

TWO PERFORMANCES: Seattle (May 30) & Lynnwood (May 31)