Saturday, November 23, 2024 @ 2:00pm – 2:45pm (PST)
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Seattle, WA, United States
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Free (RSVP available)

The Seattle Festival Orchestra is pleased to announce that this November, under our new music director Yuchi Chou, we will be offering FREE admission to our Family-Friendly concert! Children are invited to experience a full symphony concert at our smaller venue, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, without their adults needing to worry about model behavior. Some audience chatter is expected; dancing in the aisles is encouraged!

The first two works on the program are by Seattle teen composer Brannon Warn-Johnston. She takes the audience on a journey into the wilderness, where she goes backpacking with her violin and staff paper, to experience scorching heat, cool waters and hope. Completing the program is SFO's own Liam Frye-Mason playing the beautiful and melodic Cello Concerto by Kurt Atterberg, followed by Sibelius's triumphant Symphony No 2.

Note: our the family-friendly concerts are reduced in length to approximately 45 minutes of music (with an intermission).

SFO will also perform this program Sunday, November 24th, 2pm at Town Hall Seattle.

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 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/

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

4805 NE 45th St.
Seattle, WA 98105
United States

https://ststephens-seattle.org/