Sunday, March 9, 2025 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
The Great Hall at Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
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$20 ($15 senior, $5 ages 5–18; ages 4 & under free)

Experience the vibrant cultures of East Asia in Echoes of the East, a mesmerizing journey through music. Gustav Holst's enchanting Japanese Suite and Bao Yuan-Kai's evocative Sketches of Taiwan will paint vivid soundscapes of Eastern traditions, and the program will conclude with the timeless elegance of Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, performed by rising local phenom Lin Tokura. Let these captivating melodies transport you across continents and centuries in a celebration of cultural harmony and artistic brilliance.

SFO will also perform this program in a family-friendly concert on Saturday, March 8, 2pm at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. More information: https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/132401/seattle-festival-orchestra-presents-echoes-of-the-east-family-friendly-concert

About Seattle Festival Orchestra

Seattle Festival Orchestra is an all-volunteer community orchestra that presents concerts to delight and engage a 21st-century audience. With diverse programming, SFO creates space for its audience to experience the catharsis of the wide range of emotions available in orchestra music, to feel with our musicians the joy, sorrow, wonder, and ecstasy of our art.

http://www.seattlefestivalorchestra.org/

About Lin Tokura, violin

Winner of the Young Talents Gold Prize at the 2019 Paris International Music Competition, Lin Tokura, age 11, recently Second Prize at the 2022 International Arthur Grumiaux Competition for Young Violinists in Belgium. She has also been a top prize winner at the Crescendo International Music Competition; the London Festival Competition, where she received the Judges Best Performance Award; and the New York Concert Festival International Competition, where she received the Grand Prix and was named International Soloist of the Year 2019. She has performed recitals several times in Carnegie Hall, Bösendorfer Hall Mozarthaus, and Amadeus International School while on an International Concert Scholarship Tour to Vienna. She was invited to participate in the Cremona Music Festival in Italy as the youngest ambassador from Japan when she was 5. After beginning violin at age 2.5 in Tokyo, she moved to the Seattle area and continued her studies with Mihoko Hirata. Lin joined the Coleman Studio as a student of Jan Coleman in 2020. Since joining the studio, she has won several local competitions including Simon-Fiset and PAFE. Lin currently studies with Simon James, a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In addition to music, Lin is a voracious reader, a prize winner in the Japan National Calligraphy Competitions, and a member of the award-winning Junior Hip Hop Team.

About Yuchi Chou, conductor

Dr. Yuchi Chou, born in Taiwan, enjoys an international career as a conductor and pianist, as well as being a passionate educator and performer. Dr. Chou has been the winner of 2021 International Conductors Competition and Workshop in Atlanta, finalist of International Erno Lanyi Competition, Ansbacher Fellowship with Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, Conducting Fellow of Allentown (PA) Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Conducting Fellow and at Peninsula Music Festival and San Francisco Shenson Fellowship. Dr. Chou has performed at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall, and Cleveland Severance Hall. Currently Dr. Chou serves as assistant conductor to Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and President of the Bellevue Federated Music Club. Past positions include Guest Conductor of Philharmonia Northwest, Guest Conductor of Western Washington University; Assistant Conductor of Peninsula Music Festival, Community Women's Orchestra (Oakland, CA); Coaching Conductor of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Yuchi concluded her academic journey at Northwestern University after San Francisco Conservatory and Oberlin Conservatory. As a Mercer Island resident, Yuchi loves watching her honeybees buzzing in the backyard.

https://syso.org/staff/yuchi-chou/