Upcoming Performance
Northwest Sinfonietta: Butterfly Fantasy
BUTTERFLY FANTASY
Mei-Ann Chen conductor
Melissa White violin
Che-Yi Lee Dancing Strings
Chen/He Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Ravel Mother Goose (complete)
Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen joins us for this phenomenal East meets West program. Following Che-Yi Lee's dynamic and virtuosic Dancing Strings, violinist Melissa White brings us the beloved Butterfly Lovers' Concerto, a tale of love, longing and transformation. Ravel's Mother Goose closes our season, with magical spinning wheels, pagodas, princesses and enchanted gardens. This program includes a mini Taiwan Festival with food and activities provided by Asia Pacific Cultural Center.
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Northwest Sinfonietta
BUTTERFLY FANTASY
Mei-Ann Chen conductor
Melissa White violin
Che-Yi LeeDancing Strings
Chen/He Butterfly Lovers Concerto
Ravel Mother Goose (complete)
Artistic Partner Mei-Ann Chen joins us for this phenomenal East meets West program. Following Che-Yi Lee's dynamic and virtuosic Dancing Strings, violinist Melissa White brings us the beloved Butterfly Lovers' Concerto, a tale of love, longing and transformation. Ravel's Mother Goose closes our season, with magical spinning wheels, pagodas, princesses and enchanted gardens. This program includes a mini Taiwan Festival with food and activities provided by Asia Pacific Cultural Center.
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Presents: Exuberance & Elegy
The BSO closes out their season with a concert that captures the joy of life and the poignancy of its impermanence. Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari opens the program – a joyful work filled with rhythmic vitality by one of Mexico's most celebrated living composers. Next the BSO is thrilled to welcome back virtuoso violinist Yvette Kraft to perform Samuel Barber's lyrical Violin Concerto. The concert culminates in the BSO's first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s final masterpiece, the Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathétique"—a work of astonishing beauty, grandeur, and vulnerability.
Program:
Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
-Yvette Kraft, violin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathétique”
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Presents: Exuberance & Elegy
The BSO closes out their season with a concert that captures the joy of life and the poignancy of its impermanence. Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari opens the program – a joyful work filled with rhythmic vitality by one of Mexico's most celebrated living composers. Next the BSO is thrilled to welcome back virtuoso violinist Yvette Kraft to perform Samuel Barber's lyrical Violin Concerto. The concert culminates in the BSO's first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s final masterpiece, the Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathétique"—a work of astonishing beauty, grandeur, and vulnerability.
Program:
Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
-Yvette Kraft, violin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathétique”
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra Presents: Exuberance & Elegy
The BSO closes out their season with a concert that captures the joy of life and the poignancy of its impermanence. Gabriela Ortiz's Kauyumari opens the program – a joyful work filled with rhythmic vitality by one of Mexico's most celebrated living composers. Next the BSO is thrilled to welcome back virtuoso violinist Yvette Kraft to perform Samuel Barber's lyrical Violin Concerto. The concert culminates in the BSO's first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s final masterpiece, the Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathétique"—a work of astonishing beauty, grandeur, and vulnerability.
Program:
Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari
Samuel Barber: Violin Concerto, Op. 14
-Yvette Kraft, violin
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor “Pathétique”
Seattle Chamber Orchestra: METAMORPHOSIS
Ottorino RESPIGHI Antiche Arie e Danze Suite III
Nimrod BORENSTEIN Concerto for Alto Saxophone Op,70a (US Premiere)
Elliott CARTER Elegy for string orchestra
Richard STRAUSS Metamorphosen for 23 string players
Michael BROCKMAN alto saxophone
Lorenzo MARASSO conductor
Seattle Chamber Orchestra
Northwest Symphony Orchestra: “CRESCENDO: A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION OF WASHINGTON LANDSCAPES”
Concert includes stunning nature photographs from Washington State
Morning Mood- Edvard Grieg
In the Hall of the Mountain King- Edvard Grieg
Horizons- Christopher Tyler Nickel
Pavane for the Sleeping Beauty in the Woods- Maurice Ravel
The Enchanted Garden- Maurice Ravel
Spring Morning- Frederick Delius
Intermezzo- Georges Bizet
March of the Toreadors- Georges Bizet
Slavonic Dance Op. 8 No.1- Antonin Dvorak
Farandole- Georges Bizet
Entry of the Gods into Valhalla- Richard Wagner
*Special Guests- The Musical Mountaineers- Anastasia Allison, violin; Rose Freeman, piano
Olympia Symphony Orchestra: MOVE
Pacific Northwest harpist Elizabeth Landis takes the spotlight in Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, a thrilling and percussive showpiece full of Latin American vibrance. A familiar face in the regional music scene, Landis performs regularly with Seattle Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, and Northwest Sinfonietta—and now steps center stage with the Olympia Symphony.
Then, by popular request from our orchestra musicians, we perform one of the most powerful symphonies of the 20th century: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. Written under Soviet censorship, it’s a deeply emotional journey—steeped in irony, defiance, sorrow, and triumph.
Celebrate the end of the season with bold music, unforgettable artistry, and a full house at the Washington Center. Let’s close this chapter in motion—together.
Alberto GINASTERA: Harp Concerto (1956)
featuring Elizabeth Landis, harp
Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 5 (1937)
Alexandra Arrieche, Music Director and Conductor
Approximate run time: 1 hour 45 minutes (including intermission)
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra & Bainbridge Chorale Present: Celebration & Ceremony
For the first time since 2017, the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra joins forces with Bainbridge Chorale for an all-French concert that revels in pageantry, color, and shared musical experience. The program features the brilliant brass of Dukas’s La Péri, the elegant lyricism of Fauré’s Pavane, the sacred intimacy of Messiaen's O sacrum convivium, and the luminous orchestral colors of Debussy’s Nocturnes. The evening culminates in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, a work of warmth and serenity that offers a profoundly moving expression of reflection, unity, and the transcendent power of music.
Program:
Paul Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
– intermission –
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
-Madeleine Smith, mezzo-soprano & Darrell Jordan, baritone
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra & Bainbridge Chorale Present: Celebration & Ceremony
For the first time since 2017, the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra joins forces with Bainbridge Chorale for an all-French concert that revels in pageantry, color, and shared musical experience. The program features the brilliant brass of Dukas’s La Péri, the elegant lyricism of Fauré’s Pavane, the sacred intimacy of Messiaen's O sacrum convivium, and the luminous orchestral colors of Debussy’s Nocturnes. The evening culminates in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, a work of warmth and serenity that offers a profoundly moving expression of reflection, unity, and the transcendent power of music.
Program:
Paul Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
– intermission –
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
-Madeleine Smith, mezzo-soprano & Darrell Jordan, baritone
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra & Bainbridge Chorale Present: Celebration & Ceremony
For the first time since 2017, the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra joins forces with Bainbridge Chorale for an all-French concert that revels in pageantry, color, and shared musical experience. The program features the brilliant brass of Dukas’s La Péri, the elegant lyricism of Fauré’s Pavane, the sacred intimacy of Messiaen's O sacrum convivium, and the luminous orchestral colors of Debussy’s Nocturnes. The evening culminates in a performance of Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, a work of warmth and serenity that offers a profoundly moving expression of reflection, unity, and the transcendent power of music.
Program:
Paul Dukas: Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Gabriel Fauré: Pavane, Op. 50
Olivier Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!
Claude Debussy: Nocturnes
– intermission –
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
-Madeleine Smith, mezzo-soprano & Darrell Jordan, baritone
Pacifica Chamber Orchestra: Spring Concert
Program:
String Poems, A Tripartite----------------------------------Kjell Magne Andersen
Serenade for String Orchestra--------------------------------------------Dag Wiren
Suite Champetre Op. 98b-----------------------------------------------Jean Sibelius
Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra--------------------------Adam Neiman
Jason Kuo, Piano Soloist
Northwest Sinfonietta: Sky & Stone
SKY & STONE
Yaniv Attar conductor
Angelique Poteat Pebble Conglomerate (World Premiere)
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Northwest Sinfonietta brings the wonders of the great outdoors inside the concert hall with Sky & Stone. This innovative and collaborative program opens with a newly commissioned piece by NWS clarinetist Angelique Poteat inspired by the famous Chuckanut Formation near Bellingham, Washington. Next we transform the hall into the bogs and frozen tundra of the Arctic with Rautavaara's concerto for birdsong and orchestra, Cantus Arcticus. Beethoven's pastoral Symphony No. 6 concludes the concert with its bubbling brook, thunder storm and joyful country gathering. Northwest Sinfonietta is partnering with Tacoma Tree Foundation, Tahoma Bird Alliance, Spaceworks Tacoma and Tacoma Youth Symphony for this performance.
Northwest Sinfonietta: Sky & Stone
SKY & STONE
Yaniv Attar conductor
Angelique Poteat Pebble Conglomerate (World Premiere)
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
Northwest Sinfonietta brings the wonders of the great outdoors inside the concert hall with Sky & Stone. This innovative and collaborative program opens with a newly commissioned piece by NWS clarinetist Angelique Poteat inspired by the famous Chuckanut Formation near Bellingham, Washington. Next we transform the hall into the bogs and frozen tundra of the Arctic with Rautavaara's concerto for birdsong and orchestra, Cantus Arcticus. Beethoven's pastoral Symphony No. 6 concludes the concert with its bubbling brook, thunder storm and joyful country gathering. Northwest Sinfonietta is partnering with Tacoma Tree Foundation, Tahoma Bird Alliance, Spaceworks Tacoma and Tacoma Youth Symphony for this performance.
Take A Hike! (With Beethoven)
TAKE A HIKE! (WITH BEETHOVEN) - FREE FAMILY CONCERT
Rebekah O’Brien conductor
Come Take a Hike! with Beethoven and Northwest Sinfonietta at the beautiful Rialto Theater in downtown Tacoma on March 14. Led by conductor Rebekah O'Brien, orchestra and audience will explore nature through Beethoven's Pastoral symphony, full of bubbling brooks, chirping birds and even a surprise summer storm. Designed for adventurers of all ages (0-99), this concert welcomes every response to the music.
This concert runs approximately 60 minutes, and is FREE to the community with support from Tacoma Creates and many other funders. We will be joined at the concert by our friends at Tacoma Youth Symphony Association and other partners, including Tacoma Tree Foundation and Tahoma Bird Alliance.
Lake Union Civic Orchestra: FRIENDS
Program:
Moncayo Tierra de temporal
Liebermann Piccolo Concerto
with Julin Cheung, piccolo
Barber The School for Scandal, Overture
Copland Appalachian Spring
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra: All Aboard
This joyful midwinter concert whisks you away on a symphonic journey—by land, sea, and imagination. All Aboard celebrates motion, momentum, and the thrill of travel, with Dvořák’s sunny and optimistic Symphony No. 8 as the centerpiece. Full of pastoral charm and radiant orchestral color, it’s the perfect musical escape to shake off the winter blues and explore the world through sound.
Tickets here!
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra: All Aboard
This joyful midwinter concert whisks you away on a symphonic journey—by land, sea, and imagination. All Aboard celebrates motion, momentum, and the thrill of travel, with Dvořák’s sunny and optimistic Symphony No. 8 as the centerpiece. Full of pastoral charm and radiant orchestral color, it’s the perfect musical escape to shake off the winter blues and explore the world through sound.
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra: All Aboard
This joyful midwinter concert whisks you away on a symphonic journey—by land, sea, and imagination. All Aboard celebrates motion, momentum, and the thrill of travel, with Dvořák’s sunny and optimistic Symphony No. 8 as the centerpiece. Full of pastoral charm and radiant orchestral color, it’s the perfect musical escape to shake off the winter blues and explore the world through sound.
Winter Chamber Music: Bainbridge Performing Arts
Join members of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra for an afternoon of beautiful chamber music in the Cynthia Sears Studio. This program will feature Johan Halvorsen's famous Passacaglia in G minor after G. F. Händel, Claude Debussy's charming Petit Suite for woodwind quintet, and Johannes Brahms' epic String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major.
This chamber-style performance offers audiences a closer look at the musicians of the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and timeless works that continue to inspire performers and listeners alike.
Student Recital Fall 2025
Location: Wedgwood Presbyterian Church
Time: 11/16 (Sunday) 6:00pm
Second City Chamber Series: Young Chamber Players Resident Ensemble
Final Concert:
Date: Friday, July 11, 2025
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Tacoma Community College Performing Arts Center
Tickets: General admission by donation
Allen Library Concert
Program:
Luigi Boccherini - Duet for two violins in G major, op.5, no. 1
Luigi Boccherini - Duet for two violins in E major, op.5, no. 2
Jean Marie Leclair - Six Sonatas for Two Violins, op. 3, no. 1
Cascade Conducting Orchestral Concert
Recit & Aria from Cosi fan Tutte: Temerari....Come scoglio (soprano) 6’........................W.A. Mozart
Variations on Theme by Haydn.......................................................................................……..J. Brahms
Firebird Suite (1919)........................................................................................................………..I. Stravinsky
Symphony No.3..............................................................................................................………….L. Farrenc
1. Adagio–Allegro - 9’
2. Adagio cantabile - 10’
3. Scherzo: Vivace - 6’
4. Finale: Allegro - 7’
Oboe Concerto..............................................................................................................…………..Vaughan Williams
1. Rondo pastorale 7’
2. Minuet and Musette 3’
3. Finale (Scherzo) 9’
Additional workshop arias (Don Giovanni): No. 23 Recit. accomp. and Aria Soprano (Crudele...Non mi dir)
UW Baroque Ensemble
Program:
Bach: Arrangement of Vivaldi's Concerto Op. 3 No. 8 for harpsichord and orchestra
Stradella: Concerto Grosso
Vivaldi: Concerto for Recorder and Orchestra in D major
Vivaldi: Lo seguitai felice from L'olimpiade, RV 725
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 2 in B flat major