Oct 24 Saturday
American Reflections explores the many voices of a nation in music both intimate and grand. Joan Tower’s Made in America opens with bold energy, followed by Kevin Puts’ Letters from Georgia, a song cycle inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters, featuring soprano Katie Van Kooten. Narrator Ray Horak brings President Lincoln’s words to life in Copland’s A Lincoln Portrait, before Barber’s Symphony No. 1 closes the program with sweeping lyricism.For tickets visit mcintyrehall.org or call the box office at 360-416-7727For more information, visit https://www.skagitsymphony.com/american-reflections or call the symphony office at 360-848-9336
Oct 29 Thursday
Peter Fletcher is an American classical guitarist based in Detroit and New York City. His recordings on the Centaur Records and Towerhill Recordings labels have been critically acclaimed. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.
Peter offers an audience friendly, solo recital including repertoire that runs the gamut from the Renaissance Period through the 20th Century. Also, he will promoting a new Cd – Peter Fletcher in Concert as well as an all-Bach album.
His program features Bach’s Third Lute Suite and Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Suite Española by Gaspar Sanz; the exciting Grand Solo Op 14 by Fernando Sor and Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega’s extraordinarily beautiful Capriccio Arabe.
Peter is especially excited to perform Simple Gifts, a Traditional Shaker Hymn arranged for guitar by guitarist Christopher Parkening.
He will play a captivating work entitled Usher – Valse by Russian guitarist and composer Nikita Koshkin. Composed in 1984, this piece has taken inspiration from the short story The Fall Of The House Of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.
The concert will culminate with Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz’s Córdoba and Leyenda from Cantos de España, arranged by Fletcher from piano to classical guitar.
His interests outside of music include gardening, running, long distance cycling and fountain pens. An avid reader, he prefers the works of Cervantes, Proust, Faulkner, and Balzac.
We invite you to visit www.peterfletcher.com for more information.
Oct 31 Saturday
Join us in an afternoon of wonderful music, on Saturday, 31 October 2026, 5:00 p.m.!
Walla Walla University Symphony Orchestra will be performing a set of beautiful orchestra pieces, with works by Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, César Franck, and Alexander Guilmont. Featured performers include Kraig Scott, organ, and Amanda Chureson, soprano. We promise a wonderful performance and hope to see you there!
Nov 14 Saturday
The Victoria Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Peter Butterfield, launches its season with a celebration of two masters of the baroque era -- George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Cantata No.140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (known in English as Sleepers Awake), is Bach's most famous and beloved cantata, whose starting point was a Lutheran hymn composed in 1599 by the pastor Philipp Nicolai. The biblical text relates the story of the wise and foolish maidens awaiting the arrival of their heavenly bridegroom.
The concert also features one of JS Bach's Lutheran Masses. For this Missa Brevis in A, Bach borrows liberally from his own earlier cantatas, but refines and deepens them into a brilliant short work that balances grand choruses with intimate arias.
Also on the program is GF Handel's triumphal Dettingen Te Deum. Handel, as "Composer of the Musick to the Chapel Royal," was commissioned to write a multi-part extravaganza to celebrate the victory of Britain, under King George II, over the French in the 1743 Battle of Dettingen. It features some delightful trumpet and oboe parts and a powerful fugue to close the work.
Nov 20 Friday
A Timeless Tale of Passion, Friendship, and Love's Fragile Beauty
Experience one of the world's most beloved operas as Mid-Columbia Opera presents Puccini's La Bohème.
Set in the vibrant Latin Quarter of Paris, La Bohème follows four young artists whose lives are forever changed by love, friendship, laughter, and heartbreak. Filled with unforgettable melodies and deeply human characters, Puccini's masterpiece has captivated audiences around the world for more than 125 years.
Whether you're discovering opera for the first time or returning to a cherished favorite, La Bohème offers an unforgettable evening of live music and storytelling.
Nov 21 Saturday
Dec 12 Saturday
The Year’s MidnightMusic for the season from North America
Bastyr University ChapelSaturday December 12th3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Celebrate the winter solstice with soul-warming music from Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Our December concerts often sell out—make plans early for your holiday inspiration.
Featured composers: Reena Esmail (Winter Breviary), Morten Lauridsen, Sarah Quartel, Caroline Shaw, David Garcia Saldana, Tomás Pascual, David MacIntyre.
Of note: Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Bastyr (December 12) will be sung-through, and will not include any spoken introductions to the pieces after our welcome message; we will ask the audience to hold applause until the end of the concert. These concerts will be recorded. Our performances of The Year’s Midnight at Seattle First Baptist Church (December 19) will include introductions from choir members and Karen P. Thomas, and audience members will be encouraged to applaud as they are moved to do so.
Dec 19 Saturday
Seattle First Baptist ChurchSaturday December 19th3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Mar 06 Saturday
The Dark GardenNew American Composers Series with Fahad Siadat
Seattle First Baptist ChurchSaturday March 6 - 3:00 pm & 7:00 pm
A “fanciful and downright utopian artist and thinker” (LA Times), Fahad Siadat uses music to uncover the mysteries of our inter-connected world. Let your spirit soar as choirs from local schools join us to explore this visionary music together.
Featured composers: Fahad Siadat (world premiere of The Dark Garden), Eric Whitacre, Moses Hogan, Josef Rheinberger, Donald Skirvin, Elizabeth Alexander.
May 15 Saturday
Rachmaninoff Vespers
St James CathedralSaturday May 15 - 8:00 pm
Rachmaninoff’s hour-long All-Night Vigil (also known as Vespers) is a masterpiece for the ages, using only human voices to create rich tapestries of sound. Join us for this truly moving expression of the human heart.
Featured composers: Sergei Rachmaninoff (All-Night Vigil), Pavel Chesnokov, contemporary Ukrainian composers Iryna Aleksiychuk and Hanna Havrylets.
