Issaquah Philharmonic Orchestra: Márquez, Debussy, Rimsky-Korsakov
Free
- Paul Luongo, conductor
Arturo Márquez — Danzón No. 2
Claude Debussy — Préludes Book I, No. 10: La cathédrale engloutie ("The Sunken Cathedral")
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Sinfonietta on Russian Themes, Op. 31
The Issaquah Philharmonic Orchestra invites you to an evening of music rooted in regional folklore and folk traditions. We are excited to introduce our guest conductor Dr. Paul Luongo. This is the first concert of our season and we look forward to seeing you there!
About Paul Luongo, conductor
Paul Luongo is an Associate Professor of Music and Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College. Active within this community, Luongo previously directed the Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra and is the principal guest conductor of the Walla Walla Symphony. In the greater Washington region, Luongo serves as an orchestra clinician and adjudicator. He is active in the Washington Music Educators Association having conducted the Whitman Orchestra at the WMEA State Conference (2018), as well as the Jr. All-State Orchestra (2019). Under his direction, the Whitman Orchestra also performed as a featured ensemble at the College Orchestra Directors Association National Conference (2019).
Luongo received his undergraduate education at Stetson University. At Florida State, he received advanced degrees in orchestral conducting and musicology. Dr. Luongo's primary scholarly interests consider music in film and the development of the American orchestra in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. He has revived select orchestral arrangements by Chicago Symphony Orchestra founder Theodore Thomas for publication by A-R Editions in their Recent Researches in American Music and Special Publications series.
https://www.whitman.edu/academics/majors-and-programs/music/faculty/paul-luongo