About

Who we are

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 play for our community to inspire and encourage. We work with each other to grow as musicians and members of our community.

We are a “pay to play” community orchestra; we share the costs of rehearsal and performance. Dues are $25 per month. Scholarships are provided for those unable to pay dues.

Music Director

Marcin Pączkowski (pronounced ‘marr-cheen ‘pawnch-koav-skee) is a composer, conductor, digital artist, and performer, working with both traditional and electronic media. As a composer, he is focused on developing new ways of creating and performing computer music. His pieces involving real-time gestural control using accelerometers have been performed worldwide, including 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.
As the Music Director of Evergreen Community Orchestra, he presents concerts of diverse repertoire to local communities. He is also involved in performing new music and has led premieres of numerous works in Poland and the United States. His conducting performances with Inverted Space ensemble include Anahit by Giacinto Scelsi, featuring Luke Fitzpatrick on violin, Flurries by Brian Ferneyhough, and Hermetic Definition by Joël-François Durand. He is also active in the Seattle-area improvised music community performing on various instruments.
He received grants and commissions from Seattle Symphony, eScience Institute, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, and from Polish Institute of Music and Dance. He received his Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He also holds Masters’ degrees from the Academy of Music in Kraków, Poland, and from the University of Washington.

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History of the orchestra

In early 2012, Myrna Overstreet had a vision to establish a community orchestra for our area. In her quest, she approached the Snohomish County Music Project (SCMP) and convinced them to establish a community orchestra. She then recruited musicians, a conductor and procured the Music Hall, the old theater at the Everett Mall for rehearsal and concert space. For the next 3 years, we operated under SCMP as the Music Hall Orchestra, performing concerts for the community.

In 2014, we became the Evergreen Community Orchestra and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, and independent from SCMP still performing in the Music Hall. When SCMP moved and said we had to move, we became nomads. We rehearsed in an Everett School District High School and Middle Schools. Finally we found a semi-permanent home at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Everett. We have performed regularly in a church in Everett, Sno-Isle Library in Snohomish, Christmas Tree farm in Snohomish, cold and icy Park in Lake Stevens, High School in Everett, the Snohomish County PUD Auditorium, and assisted living establishments, the roof top and inside of the Children’s Museum, the Everett Performing Arts Center, Glacier Peak HS, Kamiak HS, and Marysville-Pilchuck HS .For the past 2 years, we held a combined concert with the Everett Chorale and Snohomish County Youth Chorus. We have had performing guests (Luke Fitzpatrick, Lee Oscar, Michael Powers) and have hosted 3 different piano concerto concerts with student finalists from the annual competition by Snohomish County Music Teachers Association.

From our meager beginnings and our original 15-20 musicians with varied skill levels, we needed a director and Marcin Pączkowski was hired. Our orchestra took off upward under his direction to a 45-50 accomplished musician orchestra, who love to play and share music in our surrounding communities.