Western Symphony Orchestra (WWU) – Past Concerts
WWU Music Department Collage Concert
Friday, February 7, 2025 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Please join the Western Washington University Music Department for a free "collage" concert featuring soloists and ensembles from across th…
Free
Western Symphony Orchestra: Davids, Vaughan Williams, Still
Friday, November 15, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Brent Michael Davids
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Indigenous/Undigenous II
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Serenade to Music (with WWU Concert Choir)
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 4 "Autochthonous"
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Serenade to Music (with WWU Concert Choir)
William Grant Still — Symphony No. 4 "Autochthonous"
$15 ($5 WWU faculty/staff/ students free)
WWU Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners & Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade'
Friday, June 7, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
$15 ($5 WWU employee; students free w/ID—get a voucher ticket from the box office or online)
WWU Symphony Orchestra: Concerto Competition Winners & Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Scheherazade'
Friday, June 7, 2024 @ 10:30pm – 12:30am (EDT)
Online event
Free
WWU Orchestras: Reineke, Mason, Barber, & Copland
Western Symphony Orchestra (WWU),
Western Washington University String Sinfonia, and
Western Washington University (WWU) Department of Music
Monday, March 11, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Carl Reinecke
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12 Tonbilder ("Twelve Tone Pictures")
(selections)
Quinn Mason — Irish Dance Suite
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring
Quinn Mason — Irish Dance Suite
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring
$15 ($5 WWU employee; students w/ID free)
WWU Orchestras: Reineke, Mason, Barber, & Copland
Western Symphony Orchestra (WWU),
Western Washington University String Sinfonia, and
Western Washington University (WWU) Department of Music
Monday, March 11, 2024 @ 10:30pm – 12:30am (EDT)
Online event
Carl Reinecke
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12 Tonbilder ("Twelve Tone Pictures")
(selections)
Quinn Mason — Irish Dance Suite
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring
Quinn Mason — Irish Dance Suite
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Aaron Copland — Appalachian Spring
Free
WWU Symphony Orchestra: On Rivers
Friday, February 9, 2024 @ 10:30pm – 12:30am (EST)
Online event
John Luther Adams
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Become River
George Frideric Handel — Water Music, HWV 348-350
Florence Price — Mississippi River Suite
George Frideric Handel — Water Music, HWV 348-350
Florence Price — Mississippi River Suite
Free
WWU Symphony Orchestra: On Rivers
Friday, February 9, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
John Luther Adams
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Become River
George Frideric Handel — Water Music, HWV 348-350
Florence Price — Mississippi River Suite
George Frideric Handel — Water Music, HWV 348-350
Florence Price — Mississippi River Suite
$15 ($5 WWU employee; students w/ID free)
WWU Symphony Orchestra: Revueltas, Tate, & Shostakovich
Friday, November 17, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Silvestre Revueltas
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Sensemayá
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate — Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate — Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
$15 ($5 WWU faculty/staff; students free)
WWU Symphony Orchestra: Revueltas, Tate, & Shostakovich
Friday, November 17, 2023 @ 10:30pm – 12:30am (EST)
Online event
Silvestre Revueltas
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Sensemayá
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate — Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate — Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Free
Western Symphony Orchestra: Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Friday, November 17, 2023 @ 12:30pm – 1:15pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate
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Spirit Chief Names the Animal People
Silvestre Revueltas — Sensemayá
Silvestre Revueltas — Sensemayá
Free
WWU Symphony Orchestra presents Concerto Competition Winners + Sibelius 5
Friday, June 2, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Lars-Erik Larsson
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Concertino for Trombone and Strings, Op. 45, No. 7
(Jared Johnson, trombone)
Maurice Ravel — Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Jacob Lann, bass-baritone)
Francis Poulenc — Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, FP 61 (Amara Farah & Paige Wiesinger, pianos)
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
Maurice Ravel — Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (Jacob Lann, bass-baritone)
Francis Poulenc — Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, FP 61 (Amara Farah & Paige Wiesinger, pianos)
Jean Sibelius — Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 82
Free
WWU Orchestra
Monday, March 6, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Performance featuring the Western Symphony Orchestra.
Free
Western Symphony Orchestra: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Live in Concert
Saturday, February 25, 2023 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
$25-$50
WWU Symphony Orchestra: The Healing Heart of the First People of this Land
Wednesday, November 9, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Bruce Ruddell
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Healing Heart of the First People of This Land
Christopher Morrison — Chasing Shadows (world premiere)
Gustav Mahler — Rückert-Lieder
Christopher Morrison — Chasing Shadows (world premiere)
Gustav Mahler — Rückert-Lieder
Free
Western Symphony Orchestra featuring soprano soloist Katie Van Kooten
Friday, June 3, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Keiko Abe
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Prism Rhapsody II
Charles Griffes — Poem for Flute and Orchestra, A. 93
Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Francis Poulenc — Gloria, FP 177
Charles Griffes — Poem for Flute and Orchestra, A. 93
Johannes Brahms — Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Francis Poulenc — Gloria, FP 177
Free
WWU: Gloria Cheng and the WSO present Bernstein, Williams, & Elgar
Friday, April 29, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
WWU Performing Arts Center Concert Hall (Room 155), Bellingham, WA, United States
Leonard Bernstein
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On the Waterfront
(Symphonic Suite)
John Williams — Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra (US Preview Performance)
Edward Elgar — Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma Variations"
John Williams — Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra (US Preview Performance)
Edward Elgar — Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma Variations"
Free
WWU String Sinfonia: Corelli, Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams
Monday, March 7, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
Online and in-person
Arcangelo Corelli
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Concerto grosso in B-flat major, Op. 6, No. 5
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Four Novelletten for String Orchestra, Op. 52 (Nos. 2 & 3)
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (with combined WWU Strings)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor — Four Novelletten for String Orchestra, Op. 52 (Nos. 2 & 3)
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (with combined WWU Strings)
Free
Western Symphony Orchestra: Okoye & Beethoven
Monday, February 14, 2022 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
WWU Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, WA, United States
Free