Women composers – Upcoming Concerts

Diverse program of music featuring birds & other flying things. Works by Johannes Brahms, Mikhail Glinka, H. Leslie Adams, Sammy Fain, Sally Whitwell, & more.

Sarah Cahill returns to Old First Concerts to perform rarely-heard works by Anna Bon, Leokadiya Kashperova, Frangiz Ali-Zadeh, Zenobia Powell Perry, Agi Jambor, Madeleine Dring, & Hannah Kendall.

Soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah, violinist Tekla Cunningham, harpist Maxine Eilander, & guitarist Stephen Stubbs perform songs by Franz Schubert on 19th-c. instruments. With instrumental works by Zoe de la Ruë & Niccolò Paganini.

Program includes the West Coast premiere of Nia Imani Franklin's Chrysalis Extended and Emporium for solo piano and orchestra by Aldo López Gavilán, with the composer as soloist.

Soprano Danielle Reutter-Harrah, violinist Tekla Cunningham, harpist Maxine Eilander, & guitarist Stephen Stubbs perform songs by Franz Schubert on 19th-c. instruments. With instrumental works by Zoe de la Ruë & Niccolò Paganini.

Classical piano works, original electric cello compositions, jazz standards, & a few tantalizing surprises.

Grammy-nominated cellist Matt Haimovitz premieres 3 solo works; violinist Chad Hoopes performs all 4 concertos of Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Festival Orchestra Napa.

Pianist Lisa Bergman & violinist Svend Rønning re-inaugurate Lakewold Gardens as SCCS's summer home in a concert of sweet suites by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Dawn Sonntag, William Grant Still, & Igor Stravinsky.

Andrea Casarrubios – SEVEN for solo cello
Lydia Jane Pugh – Carolina’s Jig
Elizabeth Start – Echoes in Life
Claude Debussy – Cello Sonata, L. 135
Ludwig van Beethoven – Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69

Italian Baroque works are on display in this concert film featuring motets from Chiara Margarita Cozzolani's Scherzi di sacra melodia, as well as Maria Francesca Nascinbeni's chamber trio, Non tema nò di morte.

Tribute to Italian composer/singer Barbara Strozzi that explores lighter side of her repertoire, as well as her famous lament Lagrime mie, complimented by plucked & bowed string instruments from Iran, Turkey, & Italy.

Gwyneth Walker – Close to Home
Katherine Hoover – "II. Serenade" from Canyon Echoes
Laurel Zucker – Peruvian Dreams
Scott Hill – Casi
Katrina Contreras – Victoria
Katrina Contreras – Lilas de Agua
Mari Kotskky – Time Goes On
Javier Contreras – Imposibles Espejos

Florence Price – String Quartet in G major
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60

Sheila Bristow – When Music Sounds (world premiere)
Johann Sebastian Bach – Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – "I. Marcia" from Serenade No. 6 for Orchestra in D major, K. 239 "Serenata notturna"
Arthur Honegger – Pastorale d'été, H. 31
Antonín Dvořák – Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22, B. 52

Nadia Boulanger – Selected songs TBA
Nadia Boulanger & Raoul Pugno – Selection from Les heures claires
Lili Boulanger – Selected songs TBA
Florent Schmitt – Andantino, Op. 30, No. 1
Claude Debussy – Trois Chansons de France, L. 102
Charles Koechlin – Épitaphe de Jean Harlow, Op. 164
Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio in A minor
Gabriel Fauré – Barcarolle No. 6 in E-flat, Op. 70
George Enescu – Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 25
Marion Bauer – Four Piano Pieces, Op. 21

Whidbey's Saratoga Orchestra plays host to orchestra conductors from around the globe in this final concert of the PNW Conducting Institute. Works by Antonín Dvořák, Grażyna Bacewicz, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, & Hanna Benn.

Nadia Boulanger – Selected songs TBA
Lili Boulanger – Cortège
Erik Satie – Passacaille
Pierre Menu – Sonatine pour quatuor à cordes
Germaine Tailleferre – Piano Trio
Georges Auric – Trois Interludes
Francis Poulenc – "Toccata" from Trois Pièces, FP 48
Elsa Barraine – Crépuscules et Fanfare
Albert Roussel – Sérénade, Op. 30

George Gershwin, arr. James Cohn – Three Preludes
Amy Beach – Quartet for Strings, Op. 89
Ludwig van Beethoven – "I. Music, Love, and Wine" from 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
Franz Schubert – "IV. Andantino – Allegretto" from Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “Trout”
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Roman Sokruta – Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Pablo Ziegler – Michelangelo '70
Aram Khachaturian, arr. Greg Anderson – "Sabre Dance" from Gayane
Jennifer Higdon – A Gentle Notion
Morton Gould – "VIII. Jaunty" from Benny’s Gig
Dick Hyman – "Allegro" from Sextet for clarinet, piano, & string quartet

George Gershwin, arr. James Cohn – Three Preludes
Amy Beach – Quartet for Strings, Op. 89
Ludwig van Beethoven – "I. Music, Love, and Wine" from 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
Franz Schubert – "IV. Andantino – Allegretto" from Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 “Trout”
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Roman Sokruta – Libertango
Astor Piazzolla, arr. Pablo Ziegler – Michelangelo '70
Aram Khachaturian, arr. Greg Anderson – "Sabre Dance" from Gayane
Jennifer Higdon – A Gentle Notion
Morton Gould – "VIII. Jaunty" from Benny’s Gig
Dick Hyman – "Allegro" from Sextet for clarinet, piano, & string quartet

Using embedded technologies, domestic tools are repurposed as musical instruments & explored in this public installation & performance.