Some of Our Favorite Things
Date and Time
Sunday, February 11, 2018 at 3:00 pm
Location
Shorecrest Performing Arts Center
Shorecrest High School
15343 25th Ave NE
Shoreline 98155
Program
| Johan de Meij | Gandalf, Lord of the Rings, mvt. 1 | |
| Eric Whitacre | The Seal Lullaby | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart transcribed by Charles T. Yeago | Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Concert Band, Mvt. 1 | |
| Robert Russell Bennett | Suite of Old American Dances | |
| Gustav Holst ed. Matthews | Suite in F | |
| David Holsinger | On A Hymnsong of Phillip Bliss | |
| Zo Elliott | British Eighth | |
| Charles Ives ed. K. Brion | March Intercollegiate |
Description
The Seattle Wind Symphony presents some of its favorite music written for wind band. Marches, chorales, original band music, and arrangements of orchestral favorites by de Meij, Bennett, Whitacre, Ives, Holst, and Holsinger are included. The band also features the winner of the Seattle Wind Symphony Young Artist Competition as soloist.
Featuring
Kipras Mazeika, bassoon
Kipras has been a member of the Seattle Youth Symphony, the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, and his school orchestra where he also regularly performs with a reed trio, woodwind quartet, and clarinet-bassoon duet. He was also selected as a Seattle Symphony Young Artist for the 2017-2018 season, was a winner of the Northwest Sinfonietta’s Christophe Chagnard Scholarship Audition, and earned a top-two finish the past two years in the WMEA State Solo Contest for bassoon. Kipras will perform the first movement of Mozart’s Concerto in B-flat Major for bassoon with the Seattle Wind Symphony on Sunday, February 11, 3:00 pm at Shorecrest Performing Arts Center.
Kipras is a senior at University Prep High School in Seattle and is a student of Seattle bassoon teacher Francine Peterson.
You can learn more about this concert on our website, sammamishsymphony.org.