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Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra announces details of ambitious 2016-17 season

Nothing flashy about the number 31, but the 31st season of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra is special nonetheless.

During its fourth year under music director Brett Mitchell, associate conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, the distinguished pre-professional ensemble will take…

2016-06-02
New Lynden restaurant comes with European flair

A longtime music store is under new ownership.

Rob and Stephanie Peterka bought Bellingham Music and the Bellingham Academy of Music at 232 E. Champion St., said Dick Zagelow, a broker at Moore and Co. who handled the sale, in a news release. The Peterkas puchased the businesses from Ron…

2016-04-25
A dozen faculty to hold free concert Friday 2016-04-21
Piano students win recital competition

Student pianists Tate Cohan and Alex Amick earned top honors when the Skagit Valley Chapter of the Washington State Music Teachers Association held its annual Conference Recital Competition on March 19 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Mount Vernon.

Eleven students performed at the event,…

2016-04-18
Bellingham drummer Christian Casolary plays at Hotel Bellwether 2016-04-14
WWU jazz trumpeter Kevin Woods plays April 8 at Eat Restaurant

Growing up, Kevin Woods was surrounded by music from the swing era, in part because his dad was a trumpet player with a big band in Walla Walla.

“He gave me a bugle at age 2, a cornet at age 5, then a trumpet in junior high school,” Woods says.

2016-04-07
Late bloomer, and how

A Chinese-American composer holding concerts in Seattle or Beijing? Such events aren't as uncommon today as they were, perhaps, even a decade ago. But would you be surprised to know that the composer worked as a civil engineer for most of his adult life, only learning symphonic composition…

2016-01-29
Jazz Project opens new concert season

Jud Sherwood’s Jazz Project, now in its 18th season, opens with an Art of Jazz Series concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 31, at Western Washington University’s Performing Arts Center Concert Hall featuring Latin jazz, flamenco and post-bop pianist Chano Dominguez, with WWU’s Jazz Combos opening.

2016-01-28
WWU’s Melissa Plagemann in Seattle Opera’s ‘Figaro’

Mezzo-soprano Melissa Plagemann, a music instructor at Western Washington University, is happy to be singing in the chorus of Seattle Opera’s presentation of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro,” opening Saturday, Jan. 16, at McCaw Hall in Seattle Center, and running through Jan. 30.

2016-01-13
Clarinetist Erika Block joins music faculty 2016-01-13
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