Youth to perform Friday, Sunday as part of Marrowstone Music Festival

The Marrowstone Music Festival concludes its 2011 orchestral season this week in the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall on Western Washington University’s campus.

At 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5, Marrowstone students will perform works from the chamber repertoire in a concert that's free and open to the public. And on Sunday, Aug. 7, all 200-plus of the festival's young students will get together for the Festival Orchestra Concert at 3 p.m. The performance will feature Gustav Mahler’s monumental “Symphony No. 1 in D Major” – also known as “Titan.”

Tickets for all performances other than the Friday chamber orchestra concerts are available through the WWU Box Office and cost $21 for general admission and $15 for seniors, WWU faculty and staff and students. A limited number of tickets are also available at Village Books and the Community Food Co-op.

Also this week:

• Faculty Chamber Music Concerts – A Faculty Chamber Music Concert will be offered at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 4. The Marrowstone faculty list includes some of America’s most distinguished orchestral and chamber musicians. Members of the Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle Symphony Orchestras will be represented, as will internationally acclaimed teachers, performers and soloists. These distinguished musicians will join for rich and eclectic concerts featuring classic works by Bach, Brahms and Tchaikovsky; exciting Latin tangos by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla; and cutting-edge music by American composers Cynthia Folio and Frank Wiley.
• Marrowstone Chamber Orchestra Concerts – Festival Musical Director Stephen Rogers Radcliffe will lead the Marrowstone Chamber Orchestra in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 6. The concert will feature renowned cellist Joshua Roman performing two works by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, his “Silent Woods” and “Rondo in G Major for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 94.” The concert also will be an opportunity to hear the highly accomplished Marrowstone faculty perform as soloists in Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F Major.” Featured soloists include Jill Felber, flute; Rebecca Henderson, oboe; Fritz Gearhart, violin; and Roy Poper, trumpet.

WWU Box Office hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and one hour prior to the performance. For individual tickets or disability accommodations, contact the WWU Box Office at (360) 650-6146 or visit http://www.tickets.wwu.edu.

This is the 11th season that Marrowstone is be in residence on Western’s campus in the Performing Arts Center, where it conducts its studies, rehearsals and performances. In addition to faculty from around the world,Marrowstone features three WWU music faculty on its staff for the season – Grant Donnellan, violin; Eric Kean, viola; Jeffrey Gilliam, piano – as well as WWU students as interns and a WWU Music alumnus, Ryan Dudenbostel, as a conductor.

Since 1943, the Marrowstone Music Festival has been the premiere orchestral training program of the Pacific Northwest. Operated by the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras, the festival’s internationally acclaimed faculty artists work directly with talented students from all over the United States to present outstanding performances of orchestral and chamber music in the city of Bellingham each summer.

For more information about the Marrowstone Music Festival, please visit http://www.marrowstone.org or call (360) 650-2220.