2009 - 2010 Season and Concerts

Concert 1 - Family concert

7:30 pm, Friday, October 30, 2009
Highline Performing Arts Center

Carmen Fantasy, Pablo de Sarasate
with student soloist Maya Cohon
The Accursed Huntsman, Cesar Franck
Ruler of the Spirits, Carl Maria von Weber
Zampa Overture, Ferdinand Herold
Overture for Home, Kimberley Blanchard**
Prince Igor Overture, Alexander Borodin

Children are welcome to wear a family friendly costume

special event - Seattle Children's Hospital Benefit Concert

8:00 PM, Friday, November 6, 2009
Benaroya Hall, Taper Auditorium

An annual benefit concert sponsored by the Symphony Guild with proceeds benefitting uncompensated care at Seattle Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center.

A concert composed and produced by Mateo Messina* with orchestration by Joe Trapanese.

Concert 2 - Valentine's concert

7:30 PM, Friday, February 12, 2010
Highline Performing Arts Center

Tango Again, Dell Wade*
Concerto in E Minor for Violoncello and Orchestra, Edward Elgar
with guest artist John Friesen
Symphony No. 5, Alexander Glazunov

Concert 3 - spotlight on the orchestra

8:00 PM, Saturday, March 20, 2010
Holy Rosary Church, West Seattle

Elegy from Symphonic Suite, Dale Dykins*
Symphony No. 4 (Italian), Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 8, Ludwig van Beethoven

Concert 4 - east meets west - Music of the pacific rim

7:30 PM, Friday, April 23, 2010
Highline Performing Arts Center

Symphony No. 5, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composition by the Pacific Middle School Wind Ensemble, facilitated by Glenn Crytzer*
Snow Country (Yukiguni), Gloria Swisher*
with guest artist Shiho Kurauchi, Koto
Tempestuous Timpanist, Stafford Miller**
with guest artist Mike Crusoe

* Northwest composer
** Northwest composer and NWSO musician