Please read through the outline of our season and contact us with any questions: philnweducation@gmail.com for more details regarding these and other possible opportunities. We'd love to have you and your students be a part of our program!
CONCERT 1
October 20, 2013
Kind of Outreach: Prelude Concert (pre-concert performance featuring student
performers, starting at 2PM).
Looking for: Small Chamber Ensemble (4-10 people)
Associated Activities: School visit - coaching for small instrumental groups by PNW
members, Q & A session afterwards (~60 minutes, time to be scheduled in coordination
with teacher), invitation to Saturday morning dress rehearsal, Q & A with soloists (pianist
Robin McCabe and violinist Maria Larionoff).
CONCERT 2
November 24, 2013
Kind of Outreach: Side-by-Side
Looking for: 4-7 string players to perform with Philharmonia Northwest on Ralph
Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis on the main subscription
concert. Students will participate in 4 Tuesday night rehearsals and the Saturday morning
dress rehearsal as part of this performance. (Tuesday rehearsals are 7:15-9:45 at North
Seattle Community College. The dress rehearsal will be at 10 AM at St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Church).
Associated Activities: Improvisation and composition session with San Fransisco
Symphony bassist and composer, David Arend, after Vaughan Williams dress rehearsal.
(~30-60 minutes). Additional workshop for local bass students with Mr. Arend to be
scheduled during the week.
CONCERT 3
February 16, 2014
Kind of Outreach: Side-by-Side
Looking for: 4-7 string players to perform with Philharmonia Northwest on John
Corigliano’s Elegy for Orchestra on the main subscription concert. Students will participate
in 4 Tuesday night rehearsals and the Saturday morning dress rehearsal as part of this
performance. (Tuesday rehearsals are 7:15-9:45 at North Seattle Community College. The
dress rehearsal will be at 10 AM at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church).
Associated Activities: Invitation to Saturday morning dress rehearsal, Q & A with
soloist, cellist Walter Gray, possible program note competition for older students.
CONCERT 4
March 29, 2014 (*Meany Hall, University of Washington, 7:30PM)
Kind of Outreach: Prelude Concert (pre-concert performance featuring student
performers, starting at 7PM, in the lobby of Meany Hall).
Looking for: Choir
Associated Activities: Possibility of joining the Kirkland Choral Society and the
Bellevue Chamber chorus in the performance of the Brahms Requiem.
This is a fantastic opportunity for your elementary-aged students to attend and
engage in a performance specifically tailored towards younger audiences with
Philharmonia Northwest, as part of our 2013-2014 season. We are looking to bring 2-3
local school groups in for this performance, using a bus service generously donated by
local business sponsors.
CONCERT 5
CONCERT 5
Our Young People’s Concert will be on April 27, 2014 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal
Church in Laruelhurst, and will feature animal-centric works culminating in Saint-Saens
favorite, Carnival of the Animals. We will also be holding a Prelude session for children and their parents, where Philharmonia Northwest members will demonstrate their instruments, and
host an instrument “petting zoo,” where children can come and visit and play with
instruments under supervision. There may even be a chance for a few children to conduct
the orchestra!
During the concert, students will be invited to sit at the front of the audience, and
will be given activity packs to accompany the Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals.
Our full concert information is as follows:
April 27, 2014
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church (address)
2:00PM
Prelude Concert/Event
2:30PM
Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit (The Ox on the Roof)
Doolittle: Why the Parrot Repeats Human
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
