A Season of Symphonies

As you can see by the Yakima Symphony Orchestra's banner they are expecting a banner year! For the first time in their history they are "conducting" a search for a new Music Director. The YSO received 105 applicants from three continents for this position. I think that would make retiring Music Director and Conductor Brooke Creswell very proud.


Brooke Creswell has been Music Director and Conductor of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra since its inception back in 1967 under the name Yakima Chamber Orchestra. Brooke remains with the YSO in the capacity of Artistic Director this season. To read more click here.

Brooke will also conduct the season opening concert on November 1st featuring a piece about the national Mexican holiday knows as Dia de lost Muertos or Day of the Dead. Also on that program is Lux Aeterna written by Morten Lauridsen
born in Colfax, Washington.


Other season highlights include the YSO's principal cellist, Kara Hunnicutt in Ottorino Respighi's Adagio con variazioni featuring conductor Viswa Subbaraman.










Pianist Regina Yeh joins the Yakima Symphony and conductor Nikola Caoile in Frederic Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in f.


Check out the other conductor candidates and buy your tickets to be a part of this exciting season!

A Season of Symphonies

Adam Stern and the Seattle Philharmonic's 2009/2010 season focuses on both the tried and true and the tantalizingly new.


Their season features everything from Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree narrated by Adam Stern's daughter, Ella, to Maurice Ravel's Bolero.


Check out their full schedule on the Seattle Philharmonic link above and click here to purchase your season tickets.

A Season of Symphonies

The Wenatchee Valley Symphony's 63rd season, led by conductor Marty Zyskowski, features a wide variety of sounds and styles.



Conductor Marty Zyskowski with his group the Blue Notes. Marty's the one playing the drums!

Marty Zyskowski a few years later....
The Wenatchee Valley Symphony and Marty Zyskowski.


Sarah Wynter and other young artists join the WVS in their opening concert "Rising Stars.


In December join the Wenatchee Valley Symphony in a performance of Handel's "Messiah" with a special opportunity for you to exercise your vocal chords!



















Their February concert, "Mozart and the Movies" has everything from the poignant and stirring anthem "Dry Your Tears Afrika" from the Steven Spielberg film "Amistad"




















to a tribute to Bugs and the gang!


Their finale concert in April features one of the most romantic symphonic pieces of all time. The picture is a big hint!

Click here ticket information.

A Season of Symphonies

Check out the 2009/2010 season of the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra! The season begins on October 3rd with "Bernstein and Blues" featuring the group Realtime.

In November, internationally reknown violinist, Sarah Chang performs Johannes Brahms "Violin Concerto in D."

February brings Texas bassoonist Martin Kuuskmann who looks and apparently plays like a rock star!

The "Celestial Classics" concert in March features local favorite Dan Sabo in Grieg's "Piano Concerto in a."

Rising star Erin Wall joins the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra for the profoundly moving "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" in April.


Artistic Director and Conductor Roger Briggs has put together a great season. Get your tickets here and enjoy the music!

A Season of Symphonies

See - Hear - Enjoy
What a fantastic motto for the Bayshore Symphony! You will certainly do all three during their 2009/2010 season. Artistic Director and Conductor Kathleen Barraclough and the Bayshore Symphony have a truly outstanding season prepared for you.



Among the musical highlights are performances of Franz Joseph Haydn's "Symphony No. 101" nicknamed "The Clock" for the steady, ticking rhythm in the second movement.





















Also, you'll enjoy a visit from Mickey Mouse, or at least hear one of his favorite pieces of music, and experience the music and majesty of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.

A Season of Symphonies

You can "hear the beauty" and "feel the passion" of the Walla Walla Symphony from the opening strains of the first performance of their 102nd season, Autumn Prelude.

Beginning October 13th, Music Director and Conductor Yaacov Bergman takes you on a journey through Europe and the New World.




From Howard Blake's
The Snowman,
to a collaboration with the Eugene Ballet in Tchaikovsky's
"Sleeping Beauty," you will find a treasure trove of music to excite, delight and inspire you.
Get your season tickets and enjoy!

A Season of Symphonies

The Port Angeles Symphony kicks off their 2009/2010 season on September 25th and 26th with their Pops & Picnic conerts. Check out the link above for the full details on their entire season.



Conductor Adam Stern is leading the Port Angeles Symphony in a season of tributes, surprises and special guests.



Pianist Alexander Tutunov joins the PAS in the music of Sergei Prokofiev.













Also on tap, and the pun if fully intended here, is Morton Gould's Tap Dance Concerto.


Near and dear to Conductor Adam Stern's heart is the Ralph Vaughan Williams tribute concert in March featuring Vaughan William's little performed The Pilgrim's Progress,

A Season of Symphonies

Symphony orchestras are a vital part of their communities. They offer opportunities for talented musicians in their area to come together and perform classical music, an art form with roots deeply embedded in the past and constantly growing branches into the future. What does the future hold for the Skagit Valley symphony? Watch this video for a hint then check out their concert season for yourself.




Music Director, Conductor and composer Roupen Shakarian has a season planned with everything from a toast to the world of opera, to a concert that exemplifies the symphony's mission of reaching out to the next generation of classical music lovers, the family concert, "Let's Play an Instrument."


The Skagit Symphony's March concert features two distinguished soloists from the New York Philharmonic, oboist Joe Robinson and violinist Mary Kay Robinson.









Get your tickets and enjoy the wonderful season of music ahead!

A Season of Symphonies

Happy Birthday to the Mid-Columbia Symphony! They are 65 years young! How are they going to celebrate?
















Conductor Nicholas Wallin.









Well, with some Michael Torke! What could be more celebratory than Javelin, a piece commissioned by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympics in celebration of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's 50th Anniversary Season.














Also during their 65th season experience Verdi's
Requiem, Brahm's Symphony No. 2 and Samuel Barber's iconic Adagio for Strings.

A Season of Symphonies

Seattle's Philharmonia Northwest has a long tradition of playing both the well known and well loved pieces in the classical music repertoire, along with forgotten and undiscovered gems. At a Philharmonia Northwest concert you can hear everything from a Rachmaninoff piano concerto to a work for piccolo and contrabassoon. The orchestra has performed all over the city of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, and now make their concert home at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Seattle.


Roupen Shakarian is the Music Director and Conductor of Philharmonia Northwest. A native of Egypt, his family emigrated to the United States when he was a young boy and eventually found their way to the Seattle area. Drawn to composing at a young age, Shakarian finds the visual beauty and the lifestyle in the Pacific Northwest conducive to his compositional career.

Some of his compositions include Whimsy and Chamber Symphony, both works written for Philharmonia Northwest, Flute Concerto, Pastime for chamber ensemble, The Turnip, Clock, and Kid for the Rainier Chamber Winds.

Philharmonia Northwest's season includes the music of Telemann, Haydn, Prokofiev and a Rachmaninoff concerto performed by Canadian pianist Robert Silverman.


Order your tickets for the season here and enjoy a great year of music!