Who We Are

We are a welcoming group of musicians from all backgrounds who


​ play for the love of making and sharing music.

We are you.  We are teachers and engineers and students.  Some of us have played professionally.  Some of us have not played since high school.  Others are "mature beginners."  All of us have a love of music.

We volunteer in our community to share the benefits of music.

We are a "pay to play" community orchestra; we share the costs of rehearsal and performance.  Dues are $20 per month.  Scholarships are provided for those unable to pay dues.

We play for our community to inspire and encourage.

We work with each other to grow as musicians and members of our community.

primary concert conductor.

Marcin Pączkowski is a composer, conductor, and digital artist, working with both traditional and electronic media. As a conductor he leads the Evergreen Community Orchestra and Seattle-based new music c­ollective Inverted Space. He is also a co-founder of the contemporary chamber vocal ensemble Pogratulujmy Mrówkom. His conducting performances with Inverted Space include Anahit by Giacinto Scelsi, featuring Luke Fitzpatrick on violin, Flurries by Brian Ferneyhough, and Hermetic Definition by Joël-François Durand. He has also lead premieres of numerous works in Poland and the United States.

As a composer, he is focused on developing new ways of creating and performing computer music. His pieces involving real-time gesture control using accelerometers have been performed at the International Computer Music Conference in Daegu, Korea, Music of Today concert series in Seattle, Washington, Northwest Percussion Festival in Ashland, Oregon, Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium in Toronto, Canada, and the Audio Art festival in Kraków, Poland. 

He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) at the University of Washington in Seattle where he currently works as a Research Associate. He also received his Masters' degrees from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland (composition and conducting), and from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington (composition). He was a grant recipient from Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Polish Institute of Music and Dance and from Lesser Poland Scholarship Foundation Sapere Auso.

​


​rehearsal conductor:

Nse' Ekpo enjoys a varied career as a performer, educator and content creator throughout the U.S. and abroad.  He received his Doctor of Music Arts in Orchestral Conducting from the University of South Carolina in 2015 upon completion of his document, "Expanding the American Canon:  The Orchestral Music of Black American Composers."  He currently is the Concert Band Director/Co-Orchestra Director at Lakeside School in Seattle.  He has guest conducted for local orchestras such as the  Issaquah Philharmonic and Seattle Pacific University Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras in the States and abroad.  When not conducting, creating, or collaborating, Dr. Ekpo enjoys performing as a stand-up comic at Seattle area venues and living the dream with his wife and three children.
  ​

board of directors and officers.

♫ Executive Director:                    Gwen Parker
♫ President:                                      Roy Wenzel
♫ Vice President:                             Mark Wick
♫ Treasurer:                                      Chris Hartzog
Secretary and ♫ Taker:                   Karen Wenzel
♫ Publicity:                                         Chris Glans
♫ Librarian:                                        Don Wilson
♫ Members-at-large:                       Beth Vickery, Doreen Hamilton

Our performance space.

(Pre-pandemic): Everett First Presbyterian Church, 2936 Rockefeller Ave., Everett, WA 98201

March 2020 through January 2022:  Mostly virtual.