MARROWSTONE 2017 FESTIVAL PROGRAM

74 TH SEASON

in partnership with JULY 23 - AUGUST 6, 2017 Stephen Rogers Radcliffe, Music Director THANK YOU TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS

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Western Washington University Marrowstone Personnel Dr. Christopher Bianco David Saxton Lea Fetterman Cory Herman Music Department Chair PAC Operations Kramer Elwell Conference Services Jon Bash Heather Dalberg Michelle Stranges Samantha Golden Kaitlyn Ronstadt Administrative Services Keyboard Technician Shayna Woods Kristina Nielsen Manager Apartments & Guest Housing Jesse Phillips Lacey Knudtson Fred Ramage Box Office Manager Kathryn Moore PAC Operations Manager Ariel Mathwig Facilities/Technical Staff Head House Manager

2 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE NOTES FROM MARROWSTONE LEADERSHIP

Thank you for joining us at On behalf of Seattle Youth Symphony Welcome to Marrowstone 2017! As Marrowstone. Your participation makes you Orchestra, it gives me great pleasure to a Marrowstone and SYSO alumnus, I am part of a great Northwest tradition. Over the welcome you to the 2017 Marrowstone honored to be participating in Marrowstone course of its 74-year history, Marrowstone Music Festival. Set among the grandeur of as the program coordinator. Overall, this is my has become the premier summer youth music the Puget Sound and the snow-capped peaks seventh season at the festival, having attended program in the Pacific Northwest, featuring of the Cascade Mountains, Marrowstone is a not only as a student, but as a counselor, inspiring performances, world-class faculty, magical musical event, one in which lifelong and staff member as well. This program has and unparalleled artistic and educational friendships are forged, where the love for been such a significant part of my life and experiences. This year we add to this tradition great music is kindled and where musicians musical education. The memories shared and of excellence a partnership with the Seattle learn to give voice to the beauty within and lessons learned here over the years are some Opera for the first-ever Seattle Opera around them. of my most cherished. I am eternally grateful Academy at Marrowstone, which will culminate to the faculty, staff, and my fellow students The Festival draws its name from the fabled in performances of the full opera “The Tender who have continuously inspired, pushed, and Puget Sound island that hosted many of Land” by Aaron Copland. nurtured me. I am sure that this year will be no the early performances. While the Festival’s exception. Thank you to all who have helped make location has changed, its role as the Pacific this season’s festival possible. Marrowstone Northwest’s most distinguished orchestral My best wishes for a successful festival to could not happen without the strong support performance and training program has not. all students this season. The Marrowstone of Western Washington University, all our experience is one that is both instructive and Whether you are a longtime Marrowstone friends in the Bellingham community, and our fun! And many thanks to all of the wonderful patron, a visitor, a parent, or a lover of great partners at Seattle Opera. I hope you enjoy families and community members who have music, we welcome you to our 2017 Festival the performances and your Marrowstone made it a priority to support these great young and look forward to sharing with you these experience. musicians and this festival! magnificent gifts of great music.

KATHLEEN ALLEN STEPHEN ROGERS RADCLIFFE ROBERT BABS Marrowstone Coordinator Interim Executive Director Music Director & Conductor Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra

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The Music Department at Western Washington University has long been a leading institution in the Northwest for undergraduate and graduate studies in music, with an enrollment of over 200 majors and an additional 300 non-major ensemble performers each quarter. Students majoring in music are able to pursue a variety of degree programs including Music Education, Composition, Performance, Music History & Literature, and Conducting. Western’s Performing Arts Center is one of the finest facilities in the nation for teaching, performing, and studying music. The facility includes a concert hall, large auditorium, electronic music/ composition studio, keyboard lab, classrooms, and rehearsal halls.

LEARN MORE > wwu.edu MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 3 MEET THE FACULTY CONDUCTORS

STEPHEN ROGERS RADCLIFFE RYAN DUDENBOSTEL Music Director & Conductor Conductor

Dr. Radcliffe continues to fulfill the promise recognized when he made Dr. Dudenbostel is the Director of Orchestral Studies at Western his Lincoln Center conducting debut with Metropolitan Opera sopranos Washington University, where he conducts the WWU Symphony Orchestra; Jan DeGaetani, Susan Graham, and Dawn Upshaw. Since then, he teaches courses in conducting, music theory, and music history; and leads has conducted orchestras on four continents, produced compact disc the contemporary music ensemble NowHearThis! He conducts regularly recordings of operatic, orchestral, and chamber music works, and has on the Jacaranda new music series in Los Angeles, and has taught at the fostered the development of audiences through innovative educational Marrowstone Music Festival for seven summers. Previously, he served as and artistic programs. An Assistant Conductor of the Boston Lyric Opera, Music Director of the Santa Monica Youth Orchestra. He also spent three Radcliffe was Founder and Music Director of the New York Chamber seasons as a rehearsal and cover conductor at the Manhattan School of Ensemble (performing for over a decade at Lincoln Center), Artistic Music, and was among fewer than a dozen Americans invited to participate Director of the Cape May Music Festival, and Principal Guest Conductor of in the 11th Cadaqués Orchestra International Conducting Competition in the Hungarian Virtuosi, which he led in international touring, television and Barcelona. Dudenbostel is a graduate of UCLA, UMKC, and WWU, and radio broadcast performances and recording projects. has studied conducting with Neal Stulberg, Robert Olson, David Wallace, Kenneth Kiesler, Gustav Meier and Rossen Milanov.

DALE CLEVENGER JONATHAN GIRARD Conductor Conductor

Principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from February 1966 Dr. Girard is one of the rising stars of his generation. A passionate musician to June 2013, Clevenger is a versatile musician in many areas, including committed to engaging audiences with thrilling performances, he enjoys a chamber music, jazz, commercial recordings, and solos, his principal mentors reputation as a musical force equally versed in symphonic repertoire, opera, being Arnold Jacobs and Adolph Herseth. Clevenger was a member of and new music. As the Director of Orchestras at the University of British Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony of the Columbia School Of Music, Girard dedicates himself to raising the standard Air directed by Alfred Wallenstein, the Kansas City Philharmonic, and the of orchestral training in Western Canada. He also serves as the assistant Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. Also a conductor, conductor for the Vancouver Symphony Whistler Institute Orchestra. He Clevenger served as music director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra was the assistant conductor of the Ohio Light Opera from 2012-2014. for fourteen years. His conducting career has included guest appearances Girard served as cover conductor for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra with numerous orchestras worldwide, including the Chicago Symphony (NY) in 2012. At the Eastman School of Music, he studied conducting with Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Shanghai Symphony Neil Varon and was the assistant conductor of the Eastman Symphony Orchestra. He now serves as the Professor of the Practice of Horn at Orchestra, the Eastman Philharmonia, and the Eastman Opera Theatre. Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.

4 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE MARROWSTONE Oklahoma School of Music and faculty at the Aria International Summer Academy. He has also been on the summer faculties at Indiana University, ARTIST-FACULTY Northwestern University, and the Interlochen Arts Camp.

LESLIE KATZ GRANT DONNELLAN Violin Violin Katz is a tenured member of the Los Donnellan holds a Master of Music degree Angeles Opera and performs regularly at and Performance Certificate from Yale Disney Hall for the Los Angeles Master School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music Chorale. She has served as concertmaster in Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. in such musically diverse posts as the Wayne His principal teachers include Sydney Newton Show in Las Vegas, and with the Harth, Eric Friedmann, Roland and Almita Norwejian Radio Orchestra in Stavanger, Vamos, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Norway. A two time winner of the Music Academy of the West Chamber He has performed with numerous symphony orchestras, including the Music Competition, Leslie Katz was student of Eudice Shapiro and Gabor American Sinfonietta. Donnellan has been a guest artist at the Olympic Reito and participated in the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra from age Music Festival, the Governor’s Recital Series, Bellingham Festival of Music, 11 with conductor Vilem Sokol. Katz is also a leading Suzuki technique Wintergreen Music Festival, Cascadia Spring Music Festival, the Boulder teacher in the Los Angeles area. Bach Society and the Holzhausen Music Festival in Germany.

RON PATTERSON FRITZ GEARHART Violin Violin A student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice The third generation of professional Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky, Patterson musicians in his family, Gearhart has has been acclaimed for his “skill, authority appeared in concert from coast to coast and imagination” by the New York as recitalist and chamber musician. He Times. From 1965 to 1999, Patterson has appeared in major halls in the United was concertmaster of the Monte-Carlo, States including Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Houston, Denver, and Miami symphonies, Street Y and the Kennedy Center as well St. Louis Little Symphony, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He as several concerts in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie. Recent appearances was a founder and Associate Professor of the Shepherd School of Music outside the U. S. include appearances in Vienna, Austria; Split, Croatia; and at Rice University and Assistant Professor at Washington University, as Mallorca, Spain. Gearhart has released several commercial recordings on well as on the faculty of Stetson University, MacMurray College and the different labels, including Koch, Albany, Centaur and Bridge records. An University of Miami. Since 1999, he has been Professor at the University active performer and teacher, Mr. Gearhart recently directed a three month of Washington, teaching violin, pedagogy and orchestral repertoire. A five- study abroad program in Vienna. Gearhart received his Master’s Degree time First Prize Winner of the Coleman Chamber Music Competition, he and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Among has performed chamber music with some of the greatest musicians of our his former teachers are Donald Weilerstein, Charles Treger, and members day, including Heifetz, Piatigorsky, and Szeryng. of the Emerson String Quartet. Gearhart is currently Full Professor on the faculty of the University of Oregon School of Music. LAUREN ROTH Violin HAL GROSSMAN Violin Roth is concertmaster of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and was named Grossman is the Grand Award Winner of Assistant Professor of Violin at the University the Lima Young Artist Competition, Silver of Arizona beginning in the 2013-2014 Medalist of the International Stulberg school year. Previous to these positions, String Competition, and First Prize Winner she was concertmaster of the Canton of the prestigious International Cleveland Symphony. In May 2013, Roth earned a Quartet Competition and the National Master of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. He of William Preucil, concertmaster of The Cleveland Orchestra. She was has been enthusiastically acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for his also accepted into his prestigious Concertmaster Academy. Roth received “vibrant tone” and “superb technique.” His New York debut at Carnegie a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance and a Bachelor of Arts Hall received exceptional reviews from the New York Times and he has degree in Italian studies from the University of Washington where she was performed for Their Royal Highnesses, Prince Charles and Princess Diana. a student of Professor Ron Patterson. Ms. Roth is a frequent soloist and Grossman has toured North America, South America and Europe and recently played concertos with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sierra he has also been heard on National Public Radio, WQXI-New York, and Vista Symphony, and Philharmonia Northwest. In the coming season, WFMT-Chicago. Formerly on the faculty at the Interlochen Arts Academy, she looks forward to appearances with the Tucson Symphony, Canton Mr. Grossman is the new-appointed Concertmaster of the Saginaw Bay Symphony and Southern Arizona Symphony. Roth serves on the faculty of Symphony Orchestra, Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Prague Summer Nights and Marrowstone Music Festival.

MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 5 MARROWSTONE WALTER GRAY ARTIST-FACULTY Cello

Gray has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United ERIC KEAN States, Mexico, the East Asia, and Europe. Viola He was a founding member of the Kronos Quartet and for over five years presented Kean is an active teacher and performer hundreds of concerts including numerous in the Northwest. After graduating with world premieres. He has continued to be Distinction in Statistics from Cornell a new music enthusiast performing with the New Performance Group, University, Kean pursued further studies Quake, and Music of Remembrance. He attended the Curtis Institute of in viola at the Cleveland Institute of Music where his primary teachers and coaches included Orlando Cole, Music, studying with Mark Jackobs of the Eugene Lehner, Mischa Schneider, Felix Galimir, and members of the Cleveland Orchestra. During the year he Guarneri String Quartet. A member of the Seattle Symphony since 1979, devotes most of his time to teaching mathematics and music at Western Gray has performed as soloist with the orchestra several times. He has Washington University. However, during the past several years he has had taught at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Mills College, performing opportunities with the Seattle Symphony, the Grand Teton Cornish College of the Arts, Western Washington University, the University Festival Orchestra and the Britt Festival Orchestra. Kean has performed as of North Texas, and Seattle University. a soloist and chamber musician at the Newport Music Festival; two of his performances were subsequently rebroadcast on National Public Radio. ANDREW SMITH Cello LAURA KUENNEN-POPER Viola Smith is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Poper has held faculty appointments at the and the Principal Cellist of The Las Vegas California Institute of the Arts, the Colburn Philharmonic. An active chamber musician School, the University of California-Irvine, and recitalist, Smith has played concerts and the Oberlin Conservatory, and has throughout the United States, as well as in taught at summer programs ranging from Italy, Spain, England, Germany, Denmark, the Idyllwild Arts and Eastman School of Ukraine, Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Japan and New Zealand, as well as Music summer programs to the Festival de Peru, Argentina and Brazil. A recent recording with pianist Alfredo Oyágüez Musica de Camara in Segovia, Spain. An active performer, she has been Montero entitled Spanish Music for Cello and Piano, was recently released a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, LA Opera, Hollywood on the Delos Music label. Mr. Smith is a recipient of the Doctor of Musical Bowl, and Rochester Philharmonic, and Cleveland Opera orchestras, and Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a Master’s recorded hundreds of soundtracks for films as a studio musician for all degree from The Mannes College of Music in New York, and a Bachelor of the major motion picture studios in Hollywood. She was a six-time of Music degree from the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, CT. He has Fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival and was twice awarded studied cello with Timothy Eddy, Bernard Greenhouse, Leslie Parnas, Ron an Artist Residency at the Banff Centre (Canada). She holds Bachelor and Leonard, and Geoffrey Rutkowski. Master of Music degrees from the Eastman School of Music.

DIANA GANNETT ROXANNA PATTERSON Bass Viola Dr. Gannett has performed with the artists Patterson began her professional career of the Guarneri, Emerson, Laurentian, and at age 16 as a member of the Fort Stanford Quartets and the Borodin Trio, as Worth Symphony and the Forth Worth well as with the Iowa Center for New Music, Opera Orchestras. She later attended the American Chamber Players, New Band, and Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) the Oberlin Dance Collective. As a soloist, and played in the Houston Symphony, her programs have included over twenty Houston Opera Orchestra and served as contemporary premieres. Solo CDs include Ladybass, Come Away, and Concertmaster of the Houston Ballet Orchestra. Her teachers included Artemis in the Oak Grove. Duo CDs include Duetti Dolce with David Murray, Ron Patterson, Eudice Shapiro, Wayne Crouse and Karen Tuttle. A chamber and Old Wine, New Bottles with Volkan Orhon. Previous appointments music enthusiast, Roxanna has recorded extensively for the Centaur, Ante include the faculties of Yale University School of Music and Hartt School Aeternum, CRI, and VOX labels, and has appeared on European and of Music in Connecticut, Oberlin College Conservatory, University of Iowa American television. She has also appeared in recital and as soloist with School of Music and the University of South Florida. For many years she held orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, England, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. the position of principal double bass at Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her students have been winners in many solo competitions (ISB, ASTA, EMF, Aspen, and various regional competitions) and have won positions in many professional orchestras and teaching institutions.

6 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE JILL FELBER KENNETH GRANT Flute Clarinet

Felber has performed solo recitals, chamber Grant is principal clarinet of the Rochester music, and concertos on five continents and Philharmonic and artist faculty at the has held residencies in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Eastman School of Music since 1987- Australia, Mexico, France, Switzerland, ’88. He is an active soloist and chamber Great Britain, Brazil and the United States. musician as well. His past teachers include A tireless promoter of new music, Felber Stanley Hasty, James Pyne, Franklin has inspired many composers to write solo Cohen, and Theodore Johnson. He holds and chamber works for her. She has premiered over five hundred pieces a BM and Performer’s Certificate form the Eastman School. Grant has for the flute and has released world premiere recordings for Centaur served as principal clarinet of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and Records, CRI, and Neuma Records. Holding degrees from University of Rochester Philharmonic. As soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic and Michigan and Bowling Green State University, Felber has taught on the Columbus Symphony he has performed several premieres including the faculties of Ohio University, Capital University, and Wright State University. Clarinet Concerto by Sydney Hodkinson and Benjamin Britten’s Concerto She is currently Professor of Flute at the University of California, Santa Movement for Clarinet and Orchestra. Chamber music premieres include Barbara and tours with the innovative flute duo ZAWA! and as recitalist Verne Reynolds’ Sonata for Clarinet and Piano and Fantasy Etudes for with pianist Dianne Frazer. Her teachers include Keith Bryan, Judith Clarinet, Percussion, and Piano. Bentley and James Galway.

FRANCINE PETERSON AMY PORTER Bassoon Flute Peterson is an active freelance performer In a versatile and distinguished career in the Northwest, working with the Seattle as one of the world’s leading concert Symphony, Seattle Opera, 5th Avenue performers, Porter has become one of Theater, and Pacific Northwest Ballet the most skillful and creative muses for Orchestra. She is also a coach for the Seattle composers of our time. Porter combines Youth Symphony Orchestra, Cascade Youth her exceptional musical talent with her Symphony, and is heavily involved in SYSO’s passion for scholarship and her musical Endangered Instruments Program. In addition to her work on the faculty of achievements have resulted in many awards and accolades for her Pacific Lutheran University and University of Puget Sound, she maintains concerts and discography. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she held the a large private studio and is a frequent clinician and adjudicator. position of Associate Principal Flute in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for eight years (1991-99) before becoming Professor of Flute at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance in Ann Arbor. DALE CLEVENGER International First Prizes include Third Kobe International Flute Competition Horn in Japan, Paris Ville d’Avray and National Flute Association in the U.S. She is the founder and Past President of the non-profit Southeast Michigan Principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Flute Association. She is founder of the popular workshop “Amy Porter’s Orchestra from February 1966 to June Anatomy of Sound” held annually in Ann Arbor. 2013, Clevenger was a member of Leopold Stokowski’s American Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air directed by Alfred ROGER COLE Wallenstein, and was principal horn of the Oboe Kansas City Philharmonic. He has appeared as soloist with orchestras worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Cole has been principal oboist of the with Daniel Barenboim conducting. He has taken part in many music festivals Vancouver Symphony since 1976 and was including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; the Florida Music Festival in the principal of the CBC Radio Orchestra Sarasota; the Affinis Music Festival in Japan and the FAME Festival. Dale has for 3 decades. He received his early musical worked with the European Community Youth Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, training in Seattle, Washington and went on conducting and teaching, and has been featured in several International Horn to become a scholarship student at Yale Society Workshops, both in the U.S. and abroad. University and The Juilliard School where he studied with the renowned American oboist Robert Bloom. Mr. Cole MARGARET TUNG has participated in summer music festivals at Aspen, Tanglewood and Horn Marlboro. He performs regularly in solo and chamber music recitals and has appeared as soloist with the VSO and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra Dr. Tung is the Assistant Professor of Horn at many times. He has recorded a CD for CBC Records entitled “The The University of Akron. She has performed Expressive Oboe”. Mr. Cole teaches at the University of British Columbia with the famed Chicago Symphony and the Vancouver Academy of Music. In June 2003 Mr. Cole was named Orchestra, Zurich Opera Orchestra, Music Director and Senior Orchestra Conductor of the Vancouver Youth Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville

MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 7 MARROWSTONE JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ ARTIST-FACULTY Trombone

Rodriguez is an international orchestral musician, recitalist and teacher. Mr. Symphony Orchestra, and was a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Rodriguez is Second/Assistant Principal As an avid chamber musician, she is the founder of Brass in the City and Trombonist in the Cincinnati Symphony a member of Solaris Wind Quintet, the woodwind quintet in residence at Orchestra. He has held positions with The University of Akron. Dr. Tung is an education enthusiast and has been the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, on faculty at Towson University, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Olivet Philharmonia Zurich at the Zurich Opera Nazarene University, Wheaton College and Zurich International School in House and has served on the faculties of University of Cincinnati College- Switzerland. Dr. Tung completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts at The Ohio Conservatory of Music (CCM), Northern Illinois University, Concordia State University and holds a Master of Music from Rice University and a University, Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and the amazing Bachelor of Music from DePaul University. Marrowstone Music Festival. He has performed or recorded with many major symphony orchestras including Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Rodriguez is the first ROY POPER trombonist to receive the prestigious Artist Diploma from The Juilliard Trumpet School and holds degrees from DePaul University and the University of Texas at Arlington. His teachers include Joseph Alessi, Mark Fisher, Jay Poper’s career spans every facet of trumpet Friedman, Charles Vernon, Darren McHenry, Dennis Bubert and Andrew performance including symphonic principal Russell. He is married to the amazing hornist, Margaret Tung. player (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and L.A. Opera), film studio work (over 500 major motion pictures), chamber music GUNNAR FOLSOM (founding member, The Modern Brass Percussion Quintet), and “popular” genres including jazz ensembles, Broadway shows, and even recordings with Frank Zappa. Folsom has been a member of the Pacific He taught at the University of Southern California School of Music prior Northwest Ballet orchestra since 1999 to assuming his current position as Associate Professor of Trumpet at and is a frequent guest with the Seattle the Oberlin Conservatory in 2002. He continues to be in demand as and Vancouver Symphonies. He has also a performer working frequently in the greater Cleveland Area and Los performed with the New World Symphony, Angeles. He has commissioned numerous works, some of which appear the New Haven Symphony, and the Oregon on his CD, L.A. Trumpet Works. Roy has been recorded on the Crystal, Symphony. As a chamber musician, Folsom Orion, Nonesuch, and Dorian labels. has performed with The Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, The Tallis Scholars, Ensemble Sospeso, Seattle Modern Orchestra, Standing Wave, and the Festival Chamber Music Society at Merkin Hall in New York. He has SKYLER JOHNSON performed in the shows Light In The Piazza, Oliver!, The Secret Garden, and Bass Trombone Wicked at the 5th Avenue and Paramount theaters in Seattle. Folsom is a founding member of Pacific Rims, a percussion quartet based in Seattle. Johnson is currently the bass trombonist of He received a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music where the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. Prior to he studied with Christopher Lamb, Duncan Patton, and Don Liuzzi. his position with the Spokane Symphony, he served as a member of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, the Peoria Symphony MATTHEW KOCMIEROSKI Orchestra, the Dubuque Symphony Percussion Orchestra, and the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra. Since the Summer of 2011, Skyler has served as the bass Kocmieroski is principal percussionist of trombonist of the Artosphere Festival Orchestra under the baton of the PNB Orchestra. He frequently performs Corrado Rovaris in Fayetteville, AR. He has also performed with the Lyric with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera of Chicago, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Opera, and has appeared with the Martha Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, and the Oregon Symphony Graham Dance Company, the Bolshoi Orchestra. Skyler is currently Adjunct Professor of Bass Trombone, Tuba Ballet, and the Mariinsky Orchestra, as well & Euphonium at Eastern Washington University and Adjunct Professor as Gladys Knight and the Pips, David Byrne, of Low Brass at Spokane Falls Community College. Skyler received Perry Como and “Mr” Fred Rogers. In the field of chamber music, he served a Bachelor’s of Music Degree in Euphonium Performance from the for ten years as artistic director and percussionist of the New Performance University of Oregon and a Master’s of Music Degree in Bass Trombone Group, was a longtime member of the Composers and Improvisers Performance from DePaul University. His primary teachers include Michael Orchestra, and is a founding member of Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet. Grose, Dan Satterwhite, Mark Fisher, and Charles Vernon. He has also appeared with the Seattle Chamber Players, the Seattle Modern Orchestra, and at festivals including the Seattle Chamber Music Society Festival, the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, the Washington Square Music Festival, and internationally at the Bergen, Moscow Autumn, and Warsaw Autumn festivals. Matthew also has a long association with

8 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE Cornish College of the Arts, and SYSO. One of his greatest satisfactions is his work with composers including John Luther Adams, John Cage, SEATTLE OPERA ACADEMY George Crumb, Lou Harrison, Toru Takemitsu and John Zorn. He may be ARTIST-FACULTY heard on many recordings of solo, chamber, and orchestral music as well as a wide variety of both major and independent motion picture, television, and video game soundtracks. NANCY ZYLSTRA Vocal Coach JEFFREY GILLIAM Piano In demand as a voice teacher and historical performance coach, soprano Zylstra enjoyed a successful singing career throughout North Prior to joining the piano faculty at WWU America and in Europe. She performed with in 1992, Gilliam taught at The Juilliard the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, School; The University of Michigan School American Bach Soloists, and Portland Baroque of Music; and at The International Menuhin Orchestra under the direction of Jeffrey Thomas, Music Academy in Gstaad, Switzerland. He Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman, and on numerous chamber music series and has performed and taught all over the world, festivals. Since 1979 she has been on the faculty of Oberlin Conservatory’s including guest university teaching positions Baroque Performance Institute. She was coordinator of the Artist Diploma in Early in Thailand and South Africa, as well as receiving two Fulbright awards. He Music program at Cornish College from 2013-2016. She has taught voice at the has recorded with violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Alberto Lysy, and Ruggerio UW, Pacific Lutheran University, and Cornish College of the Arts. Her professional Ricci for the EMI, Dinemec Classics, and Opus 111 labels. Originally from interests include choral vocal techniques and rehabilitation of individuals Akron, Ohio, Gilliam studied piano with Cécile Genhart at The Eastman experiencing voice use issues. She can be heard on the Erato, Koch, and Wildboar School of Music, and with Theodore Lettvin at The University of Michigan. labels. nancyzylstravoice.com He also studied collaborative piano with Martin Katz and Margo Garrett. In addition to teaching piano and collaborative piano at Western, he is Artistic Director of Western’s Sanford-Hill Piano Series. CYNDIA SIEDEN Vocal Coach ANASTASIA SOLOMATINA Piano A coloratura soprano, Sieden makes regular appearances at the world’s great opera houses and concert stages, where she moves with ease Anastasia is a 2003 graduate of the Curtis from roles by 18th-century composers to the Institute of Music, where she studied with complexities of 20th- and 21st-century repertoire. Peter Serkin and Eleanor Sokoloff. She She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in continued with doctoral studies at Kazan Berg’s Lulu, wowed critics in the world premiere of State Conservatory, completing the program Thomas Adès’ The Tempest at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. In 2015, in 2008. She was awarded the National she created the role of Ratastok in Sunlief Rasmussen’s Second Symphony Talented Youth Award by decree of President Putin before leaving Russia with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and baritone Bo Skovus, with John in 2008 to continue her professional activity in the United States. She has Stogaards conducting. Sieden has garnered acclaim as Queen of the Night in given recitals throughout Russia, USA, Italy, and Sweden. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Blondchen in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail which she has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Paris’s Opera Bastille, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre de Liceu, Brussels’ La Monnaie, and London’s English National Opera as well as in Beijing and Australia. In addition HEIDI LEHWALDER to being an artist in residence at UW, and a lecturer at PLU, Sieden is also an Harp active recitalist.

Lehwalder has performed as guest artist with more than 65 orchestras throughout NICOLE SONBERT the United States and Canada, including Vocal Coach the New York Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, the Sonbert is recognized for work as a performer, Montreal Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber master clinician, guest presenter, adjudicator, Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. She has made 55 and guest conductor. She has performed roles appearances as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, having given her debut including Aunt Lou in Still’s Highway One, USA, with the orchestra at age nine. She has collaborated with conductors Leonard Madame Flora in Menotti’s The Medium, Suzuki Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Erich Leinsdorf, Arthur Fiedler, Gerard Schwarz, in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, the Mother in Lucas Foss, Andre Kostelanetz, Dennis Russell Davies, and Charles Dutoit. Menotti’s The Consul, the ghost mother in Currently, Ms. Lehwalder is Founder and Artistic Director of a new concert Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, and Bloody Mary in Rodger and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. She series, Chamber On The Mountain, in Ojai, California, and she is the Founder is also known for her orchestral performances as the alto soloist in Handel’s of the Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts. Lehwalder also has the distinction Messiah. She is a graduate of East Carolina University, holding degrees in of being the first recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. Musical Theatre Performance (BM), Vocal Performance (MM), and Music

MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 9 SEATTLE OPERA ACADEMY EMILY GANTT Pianist ARTIST-FACULTY Gantt spent close to 15 years traveling throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico with the national Broadway Education (MM). Sonbert was previously on faculty at the University tours of The Phantom of the Opera, Les of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as performing and teaching in Miserables, Miss Saigon, Mamma Mia!, and Spoleto, Italy. In 2006, she was the recipient of the “My Teacher, My Hero” most recently with Billy Elliot, Annie, and award, honoring her as a teacher and mentor for young voices. She is Beautiful. Prior to moving to Bellingham currently a DMA candidate at the University of Kentucky and the Learning this June, Gantt served as the Senior Professional Accompanist at the and Engagement Manager at Seattle Opera. University of Washington, School of Music. She is thrilled to be a part of this summer’s Academy and is looking forward to continuing her musical collaboration with local musicians in the Bellingham area. Emily studied at BARBARA LYNNE JAMISON the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Diction Coach

Jamison is currently the Director of Education DANIEL ARTHUR & Community Engagement at Seattle Pianist and Composer Opera. She served as Director of Programs, Curriculum and Artist Development with the Arthur discovered his passion for jazz and Metropolitan Opera Guild and received her composition in high school and began to B. Music in Vocal Performance from Florida work as a collaborative pianist for the Seattle International University, and her M. Music Opera. He is currently pursuing a double in Vocal Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, with doctoral degree in Music and Honours Linguistics studies as Dean’s Scholar in Music Education at Boston University. She Jazz Piano Performance Program at McGill has sung under the batons of such notable conductors as Michael Tilson- University’s Schulich School of Music in Thomas, Eduardo Mata, and Martin Pearlman. Her performances have Montreal. His main project, The Daniel Arthur Trio, has performed at the been broadcast on New York Public Radio and can be heard on Hänssler renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival and will be competing in the Classics, Arsis, and Naxos labels. She has presented master classes and Bucharest International Jazz Competition in Romania in Summer 2017. workshops, and has served as adjudicator and guest conductor throughout Following the release of two EPs, the trio is currently producing its first North America. full-length album, set for release in 2017. His work with the Seattle Opera includes a full production of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, selections from Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a performance of a new WESTON HURT work commissioned by the Seattle Opera, Our Earth, and accompaniment Baritone, Guest Master Class Artist for auditions.

This season baritone Hurt makes his role debut as Valentin in Gounod’s Faust in a KELLY KITCHENS return to New Orleans Opera, and makes his Stage Director company debut at Tulsa Opera as Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca. He returns to Seattle Opera Kitchens is a professional director, actor, in his signature role of Germont in Verdi’s adaptor, and teaching artist. She received La traviata, appears in recital with Wagner the 2014 Gregory Falls Award for and More, and inaugurates the Berkshire Opera Festival as Sharpless Outstanding Director; named Best Director in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. When not onstage himself, Hurt mentors students at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and Loyola by the 2015 Seattle Weekly Readers Poll; University New Orleans in Louisiana. Recent opera engagements include and was named in Seattle Magazine’s his role debut as the title character in Nabucco at Seattle Opera, his debut inaugural list of “Top 20 Most Talented People in Seattle.” She is the Interim with New Orleans Opera as Germont in La traviata, his house and role Artistic Director at Seattle Public Theater, a member of the Sandbox debut with Houston Grand Opera as Scarpia in Tosca, his role debut as Artists Collective, and a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Locally she Iago in Otello with Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, and a return to has worked with Seattle Opera, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It, Seattle Opera in another role debut as Talbot in Maria Stuarda. A graduate Seattle Public Theater, Seattle Rep, MAP Theater, Washington Ensemble of the prestigious Juilliard Opera Center, Hurt has received many notable Theatre, Wooden O Theatre, Strawberry Theater Workshop, upstart crow vocal awards, including 1st place and the People’s Choice Award from the collective, Endangered Species Project, Taproot Theatre, Annex Theatre, Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition, the Vienna Prize from the George The Seagull Project, NCTC Pipeline, Sandbox Radio, 14/48, Northwest London Foundation, and 1st Place in the 2003 Oratorio Society of New Playwrights Alliance, Cornish College of the Arts, Pierce College, and UW. York Competition, as well as various awards from the Licia Albanese- Puccini Foundation International Competition, Liederkranz Foundation, Kelly earned her BA in Theater and English from Vanderbilt University and Metropolitan Opera National Council, Opera Index, and Palm Beach Opera her MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin. Competition, and two career grants conferred by The Santa Fe Opera.

10 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE MEET THE MARROWSTONE MUSICIANS Current as of July 10, 2017

NAME INSTRUMENT AWARD CITY STATE

Caeden Brusett Bass Oak grove Oregon Dallas Carpenter Bass Fellowship Tucson Arizona Sophie Denhard Bass Seattle Washington Isaac Ford Bass Stage Crew Kelso Washington Olive Haber Bass Seattle Washington Zoe Heuser Bass Katy Texas Rebecca Lawrence Bass Fellowship Seattle Washington Eliot Lee Bass Seattle Washington Sam Litton Bass Seattle Washington Amy Nickler Bass Fellowship Palm Beach Gardens Florida Kanishka Reddy Bass Seattle Washington Maurya (J.P.) Reddy Bass Seattle Washington Micah Cortezzo Bassoon Brier Washington Emma Eisenberg Bassoon Beaverton Oregon Chris Hayner Bassoon Bellingham Washington Trevor Ambrose King Bassoon Ann Arbor Michigan Emily Prochaska Bassoon Counselor Oxford Ohio Rosie Rogers Bassoon Counselor Tigard Oregon Kelsey Tryon Bassoon Fellowship Damascus Oregon Olivia Van Winkle Bassoon Sherwood Oregon Lucas Zeiter Bassoon Stage Crew Seattle Washington Caroline Bell Cello Henderson Nevada Tienna Brusett Cello Oak Grove Oregon Alexandra Call Cello Newberg Oregon Ava Camilo Cello Fellowship Eagle Idaho Emma Chang Cello Longview Washington Sarah Day Cello Seattle Washington Julia Edwards Cello Bainbridge Island Washington Maya Enstad Cello Fellowship Bellingham Washington Ari Geisler Cello Bellingham Washington Shannon Hamilton Cello Veradale Washington Ben Holroyd Cello Bellingham Washington Mason Holtorf Cello Bellingham Washington Benjamin Huh Cello Mill Creek Washington Chelsea Ji Cello Librarian Bellevue Washington Ethan Kim Cello Mukilteo Washington Jae-Chan Lee Cello Bellingham Washington Alex Lewis Cello Stage Crew Seattle Washington Yang Lu Cello Fellowship Seattle Washington Kevin Maa Cello Fellowship Montclair New Jersey Ray Oh Cello Bellevue Washington Audrey Rogerson Cello Seattle Washington Carmelita Ro-Mendez Cello Seattle Washington Carrie (Caroline) Saada Cello Sammamish Washington Taylo Yoon Cello Lake Oswego Oregon Iris Brenowitz Clarinet Seattle Washington Joseph Duncan Clarinet Indianapolis Indiana Mary Fortino Clarinet Rochester New York Hayley Jensen Clarinet Fellowship Rochester New York Lauren Nakatsu Clarinet Mercer Island Washington

MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 11 NAME INSTRUMENT AWARD CITY STATE

Ki-Deok Park Clarinet Northbrook Illinois Colin Roshak Clarinet Boston Mass. Kristina Setka Clarinet Counselor Rochester New York Carlos Aguilar Flute San Diego California Jacob Farmer Flute Murfreesboro Tennessee Amir Farsi Flute Fellowship Brentwood California Robyn Jin Flute Mukilteo Washington Madison Kolkow Flute Librarian Del Mar California Alex Rosenbaum Flute Mercer Island Washington Elizabeth Salerno Flute Iowa City Iowa Cynthia Vong Flute Counselor Santa Barbara California Andrew Angelos French Horn Counselor Seattle Washington Kelly Brown French Horn Stage Crew Seattle Washington Alejandro Cueto French Horn Stage Crew Tucson Arizona Stephanie Fritz French Horn Sciota Pennsylvania Mary Haddix French Horn Richmond Kentucky Jenessa Hettwer French Horn Salem Oregon Benjamin Hottensmith French Horn Counselor Brunswick Ohio Maxwell Paulus French Horn Fresno California Nathan Peebles French Horn Fellowship Cleveland Ohio Rhye Pirie French Horn Shoreline Washington Leslie Schlussel French Horn Goleta California Ethan Solomon French Horn Bellevue Washington Katherine Stahl French Horn Counselor Akron Ohio Levi Sy French Horn Seattle Washington Benjamin Albertson Harp Olympia Washington Molly Langr Harp Fellowship Salt Lake City Utah Jared Parsons Harp Counselor Mocksville North Carolina Ellie Yamanaka Harp Edmonds Washington Donovan Bown Oboe Librarian Seattle Washington Kwyn Demmert Oboe Librarian Kingston Washington Sebastian Kolde Oboe Kirkland Washington Bhavani Kotha Oboe Fellowship Bellevue Washington Matthew Maroon Oboe Bloomington Indiana Andrew Montgomery Oboe Victoria B.C. Jamie Sanidad Oboe Bellevue Washington Jenna Sehmann Oboe Counselor Richmond Kentucky Emilio Biggs Percussion Issaquah Washington Adam Dopierala Percussion Fellowship Kenmore Washington Vianny Esquivel Flores Percussion San Diego California Aidan Gold Percussion Counselor Bothell Washington Sarah Masri Percussion Vancouver B.C. Asa Morris Percussion Counselor Bellingham Washington Milo Paperman Percussion Seattle Washington Phillip Matsuura Piano Irvine California Kevin Casey Trombone Fellowship Columbus Georgia Harriet Clarke Trombone Redmond Washington Evelyn Proffit Trombone Oberlin Ohio Caleb Slabaugh Trombone Counselor Hartville Ohio Luke Berringer Bass Trombone Stage Crew Austin Texas Thomas McMurray Bass Trombone Counselor Richmond Kentucky Ricardo Chinchilla Trumpet Columbus Georgia Andrew Conover Trumpet Bridgewater New Jersey Andrew Dame Trumpet Fellowship Altamont New York John Eunsuk Kim Trumpet Vancouver B.C. Olga Para Trumpet Issaquah Washington Olivia Pidi Trumpet Counselor Dumont New Jersey

12 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE NAME INSTRUMENT AWARD CITY STATE

Alex Pinto Trumpet Oberlin Ohio Michael Remish Trumpet San Diego California Nicholas Slaggert Trumpet Evanston Illinois Michael Ebie Tuba Windham Ohio Amy Feeney Tuba Bellingham Washington Sam Paige Tuba Counselor Black Diamond Washington Julius Adams Viola Fellowship Justice Illinois Victoria Amerson Viola Auburn Washington Alaina Belisle Viola Fellowship Seattle Washington Erik Binkhuysen Viola Sammamish Washington Elisabeth Bruckner Viola Fellowship Strongsville Ohio Arlain-Erahl Chao Viola Portland Oregon Po-Ning Chiu Viola Seattle Washington Chelsea Gay Viola Counselor Nashville Tennessee Miles Goodner Viola Kirkland Washington Mercedes Hanson Viola Seattle Washington Ayana Hellevik Viola Bellevue Washington Fiona Hinkulow Viola Counselor Renton Washington Jack Kehrli Viola Kirkland Washington Wonrae Kim Viola Lake Forest Park Washington Francesca Kohn Viola Bellingham Washington Wren Liang Viola Calgary Alberta James Marshall Viola Fellowship Cheney Washington Alana Melvin Viola Medina Ohio Sophie Robinson Viola Librarian Tacoma Washington Eva Rozelle Viola Seattle Washington Katie Siegfried Viola Eugene Oregon Joel Thompson Viola Stage Crew Maple Valley Washington August Zillig Viola Stage Crew Seattle Washington Michael Abramyan Violin Fellowship Fargo North Dakota Phoebe Anderson Violin Seattle Washington Dalma Ashby Violin Seattle Washington Gustavo Berho Violin Seattle Washington Keeley Brooks Violin Winthrop Washington Timothy Buck Violin Bellingham Washington Zander Buhler Violin Bellingham Washington Lauren Carrasco Violin Oro Valley Arizona Kristine Choi Violin Bellevue Washington Nicci Ciardi Violin Norman Oklahoma Rose Crelli Violin Fellowship Fairbanks Alaska Owen Cromwell Violin Mukilteo Washington Angela Deng Violin Renton Washington Gabrielle Dietrich Violin Counselor Tucson Arizona Chiara Ferrero Violin Stage Crew Tucson Arizona Mary From Violin Bellingham Washington Isabella Hayden Violin Stage Crew Monrovia California Benjamin Hudák Violin San Francisco California Serena Jack Violin Victoria B.C. Sophia Janevic Violin Ann Arbor Michigan Caroline Koclanes Violin Denver Colorado Adeline Kovell Violin Stage Crew Bothell Washington Noah Lee Violin North Haven Connecticut Yoshimi Lin Violin Bellingham Washington Lucy Maki-Fern Violin Mill Creek Washington Catherine Michelutti Violin Bellingham Washington Amanda Milne Violin Williston Vermont Muirne Mitchell Violin Stage Crew Bellevue Washington

MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 13 NAME INSTRUMENT AWARD CITY STATE

Olivia Monks Violin Bellingham Washington Kathryn Moore Violin Bellingham Washington Bethany Moss Violin Fellowship Macon Georgia Miranda Newman Violin Eugene Oregon Meg Olson Violin Poulsbo Washington Bethany Olson Violin Tacoma Washington Masaki O’Malley Violin Seattle Washington Erika Parisien Violin Eugene Oregon Amelie Peccoud Violin Fort Collins Colorado Walter Callum Robbins-Gennerich Violin Fellowship Tucson Arizona Sterling Rosen Violin Katy Texas Elin Schlichting Violin Eugene Oregon Emma Simmons Violin Bellingham Washington Halle Smith Violin Chandler Arizona Luke Stikeleather Violin Statesville North Carolina Anna Tschiegg Violin Sykesville Maryland Wilhelm Wang Violin Dounan Township Taiwan Therese West Violin Fellowship McKees Rocks Pennsylvania Abby Wuehler Violin St. George Utah Stephanie Yoshida Violin Honolulu Hawaii Maggie Yu Violin Bellevue Washington

SEATTLE OPERA ACADEMY ARTISTS

NAME VOICE CITY STATE

Jacob Bernado Tenor Issaquah Washington Terrence Britt Jr Baritone Boston Massachusetts Katharine Burns Soprano Princeton New Jersey Hannah Castrogiovanni Soprano Bellevue Washington Grace Christianson Soprano Stanwood Washington Carly Cummings Soprano San Diego California Alyssa Davis Mezzo Harrisburg Pennsylvania Luke Dooley Baritone Bellingham Washington Abigail Duell Soprano Seattle Washington Annika Dybevik Soprano Issaquah Washington Alexandra Fee Mezzo East Moriches New York Robert Frederiksen Bass-Baritone Bellingham Washington William Gardner Tenor Warner Oklahoma Bethany Goldson Mezzo San Francisco California Nikhil Harle Tenor Bellingham Washington Alissa Henderson Soprano Bothell Washington Katherine Leidlein Soprano San Antonio Texas Grace Manning Soprano Winston Salem North Carolina Johanna Mergener Soprano Seattle Washington Stephanie Pfundt Soprano Tacoma Washington Luke Bob Robinson Bass Bellingham Washington Maria Ruiz Soprano Lexington Kentucky Thomas Smith Baritone Mays Landing New Jersey Elisabeth Williams Soprano Mercer Island Washington Cassandra Willock Soprano Shoreline Washington Lauren Zinke Soprano Bellingham Washington

14 | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | MARROWSTONE MEET OUR NEW PARTNER SEATTLE OPERA

Marrowstone Music Festival is proud to announce an extension of past partnerships with one of the region’s leading arts organizations. This partnership is the result of over five years of planning by the artistic and administrative staffs of both Seattle Opera and SYSO, and represents the latest in a series of engaging collaborations between these organizations. In this inaugural collaboration with Seattle Opera, Marrowstone is set to combine a nationally recognized opera training academy with its already nationally recognized orchestral program, resulting in the richest possible summer curriculum of symphonic, chamber, and operatic music study. During these three weeks, young artists from across the United States will be guided by distinguished faculty on the campus of Western Washington University with coachings, masterclasses with Seattle Opera mainstage artists, and workshops.

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The future has never sounded better.

2017-18 SEASON

NOVEMBER 18, 2017 MARCH 16, 2018 APRIL 22, 2018 PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY SAMUEL BARBER JOHANNES BRAHMS Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 Medea’s Meditation and Violin Concerto Dance of Vegeance in D Major, Op. 77 BENJAMIN BRITTEN Symphony No. 1 Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20 BEDŘICH SMETANA in C Minor, Op. 68 “My Homeland” - Blanik RICHARD STRAUSS MAY 19, 2018 Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 HOWARD HANSON IGOR STRAVINSKY Symphony No. 2 “Romantic” Firebird Suite

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MARROWSTONE | July 23 - August 6, 2017 | 15 MARROWSTONE'S 74TH SEASON JULY 23 - AUGUST 6, 2017

THURSDAY, JULY 27 | 7:30PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 | 7:30PM Faculty Chamber Music Faculty Chamber Music Franz Schubert: Quintet for Piano and Strings (The Trout) Arthur Meulemans: Trio for Brass Johann Quantz: Trio Sonata in C minor Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose Suite Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Serenade No. 12 for Winds Astor Piazzola: Histoire du Tango WWU Performing Arts Center Felix Mendelssohn: Sextet in D Major for Piano and Strings Prime Reserved Seating $17 | General $10

WWU Performing Arts Center Prime Reserved Seating $17 | General $10 SATURDAY, JULY 29 | 7:30PM Marrowstone Chamber Orchestra and Chorus Felix Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 | 7:30PM Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante Faculty Soloists: Lauren Roth, violin and Roxanna Patterson, viola SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 | 2:00PM Seattle Opera Academy at Marrowstone WWU Performing Arts Center Prime Reserved Seating $30 Aaron Copland: “The Tender Land” General $20 | Student $15 WWU Mainstage Theater Prime Reserved Seating $40 General $30 | Student $15 SUNDAY, JULY 30 | 3:00PM Marrowstone Festival Orchestras Giuseppe Verdi: Overture to Nabucco SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 | 3:00PM Ottorino Respighi: Fountains of Rome Marrowstone Festival Orchestras Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnole George Gershwin: Cuban Overture Claude Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Richard Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances WWU Performing Arts Center Prime Reserved Seating $40 General $30 | Student $15 Mount Baker Theater Prime Reserved Seating $39 General $30 | Student $15 SUNDAY, JULY 30 | 7:30PM Opera Scenes Seattle Opera Academy at Marrowstone students are excited to present An Evening of Opera Scenes, representing a variety of musical styles from operatic standards to lesser-known masterpieces. TICKETS marrowstone.org WWU Old Main Theater Adult $20 | Student $15

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