Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is bringing brass to the island the week of Oct. 6th. C Street Brass is the Ensemble in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, playing trumpets, horns and trombones. This dynamic quintet will lead educational workshops and entertain with ensemble performances as part of the Festival’s Musician-in-Residence program. […]
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KING for 5 nights!
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Featured in Prime Time on KING FM All Week! It’s opening week for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, and KING FM in Seattle is rolling out the red carpet. All this week on Northwest Focus on Classical KING FM 98.1 at 8:00pm, announcer Sean MacLean will feature some of the […]
4 Friends, 1 Hot Summer Ticket!
Just weeks before the 16th Annual Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, four friends will perform an intimate Salon Concert. On Tuesday, July 23rd at 6:00 pm, horn virtuoso William VerMeulen and his wife, violinist Sylvia VerMeulen, will join friends Aloysia Friedmann, violist and Artistic Director of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and Jon Kimura […]
Jon Kimura Parker CD Release Concert!
Jon Kimura Parker CD Release Concert! Tuesday, May 7 at 6:00 pm The Grange on Orcas Island It will be a grand evening at The Grange when Jon Kimura Parker performs a special CD release concert! This is Jackie’s first solo recording in ten years, and features his own transcriptions of Stravinsky’s The Rite of […]
Make This a December to Remember!
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s Annual Fundraising Concert, “Leaves of Gold,” will feature the magnificent Miro Quartet. Daniel Ching, William Fedkenheuer, John Largess and Joshua Gindele will perform two concerts in the Music Room at Rosario Resort on Thursday, December 6th at 6pm and Friday, December 7th at 6pm. Tickets to this gala event are […]
Salon Concert Pairs Famous Friends
A private music room on Orcas Island was the setting for our 2012 Fall Salon Concert. Jon Kimura Parker, piano, and Desmond Hoebig, cello, performed as if they had known each other for a lifetime. In fact, they have.“Jackie” noted that he knew Desmond before he knew his little sister! And now these former Canadians are both […]