San Juan Community Theatre will host a screening of the documentary “Shining Night,” a portrait of composer Morten Lauridsen, with a performance by the Northwest Repertory Singers Saturday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

Shining Night, a film by Michael Stillwater, received the “Audience Favorite” award at the 2013 Friday Harbor Film Festival.

The film reveals the composer through a love for silence and solitude, accentuated by a passion for music and literature. It explores Lauridsen’s relationship with art, nature and spirituality.

Lauridsen recently moved to San Juan Island after living for years on Waldron Island. He is one of the most frequently performed choral composers in the country and a recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to patrons of the arts by the United States government.

The Northwest Repertory Singers are a choral ensemble with a special relationship to the composer. After performing one of his pieces at the American Music Masterpiece in Seattle, NWRS Founder and Director Paul Shultz recalls Lauridsen saying that “it was the finest performance of Dirait-on [from his Les Chansons des collection] he’d ever heard.”

The showcase is sponsored by Whidbey Island Bank; tickets are $20 for adults, $10 for students. SJCT box office is open Tues-Fri, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.