10th Annual Chamber Music Festival
September 6 - 8, 2024
Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, WA
$25 tickets to single concerts
$80 weekend pass for all events
The weekend pass is currently sold out, but single tickets may still be available for select concerts.
Please contact us to be put on the waitlist for any sold out performances.
Kids 18 and under are welcome for free!
Performances
Chamber Music I
Friday, Sep 6, 7:00 PM
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano Francis Poulenc
Pisces (World Premiere) Freya Waley-Cohen
The Four Seasons Antonio Vivaldi
Soloist Rachell Ellen Wong
Thank you to our principal commission sponsors Bruce and Gail Rankin, Carolyn Haugen, and Peter Coggan.
Brickworks, 150 Nichols St, Friday Harbor
Freya Waley-Cohen: Inspirations
Generously sponsored by Gary Sterner
Saturday, Sep 7, 1:00 PM
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Isle Freya Waley-Cohen
L’Isle Joyeuse Claude Debussy
Je dors, mais mon coeur veille, from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus Olivier Messiaen
Bad Habit (US Premiere) Freya Waley-Cohen
Ophelia's Last Dance Oliver Knussen
For Simon Freya Waley-Cohen
Regard de l'Esprit de Joie, from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus Olivier Messiaen
SJI Museum of Art, 540 Spring St, Friday Harbor
10th Anniversary Commission
We are thrilled to be celebrating a decade of music on San Juan Island by a commissioning a new work for a seven person ensemble by British-American composer Freya Waley-Cohen. She has an “instinct for colour” (The Arts Desk), writing music that can move from “a bubbling, popping, feathered array of orchestral sounds” to a “quiet, eerie, interior world” (The Guardian). Her music music is characterized by contrasts between earthy rhythmic play and fragility, luminous spaces, and a sense of the otherworldly.
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About her new work celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Archipelago Collective she writes:
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"It’s so meaningful to return to writing for Sophie Baird-Daniel and this ensemble of world class musicians. I first wrote for Sophie when we were fellows at Tanglewood together, and have since written her a solo work. I’m looking forward to deepening this musical friendship through writing for her and the ensemble, treating the seven players of the septet as equal musical voices.
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Much of my recent work has come from a deep knowing of a place - childhood memories of the Isle of Skye, the moors of the south west of England and their ancient folklore, the deep thick clay and secret rivers that run under London, or the delicate dappled light in the corners of a New England summer. In this case, I’m fascinated by the rhythms and sounds of a place I haven’t yet been to, and the freshness that is conjured for me by imagining its shores when I haven’t yet heard their rhythms or experienced their cycles. It will be a piece about my anticipation and imagination of the San Juan archipelago, structured in cycles, of imagined moons and months and years and tides. "
Sponsored by: Bruce & Gail Rankin, Tom Carolyn Haugen, Peter Coggan
Tote bag
Live recording September, 2023 Introduction et Allegro - Maurice Ravel Sophie Baird-Daniel, Harp Olivia Staton, Flute Graeme Steele Johnson, Clarinet Alina Kobialka, Violin Rachell Ellen Wong, Violin Sarah Kienle, Viola Nathan Chan, Cello Rubispheres - Valerie Coleman Olivia Staton, Flute Graeme Steele Johnson, Clarinet Dana Jackson, Bassoon String Quintet Op. 29 - Ludwig van Beethoven Rachell Ellen Wong, Violin Andy Liang, Violin Sarah Kienle, Viola Alexander Grimes, Viola Nathan Chan, Cello
Live recording from September, 2022 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Kegelstatt Trio, K. 498 Graeme Steele Johnson, Clarinet Sarah Kienle, Viola Elizabeth Dorman, Piano Paul Schoenfield - Cafe Music Andy Liang, Violin Nathan Chan, Cello Elizabeth Dorman, Piano Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115 Graeme Steele Johnson, Clarinet Andy Liang, Violin Simone Porter, Violin Alexander Grimes, Viola Christine Lee, Cello
Cotton t-shirt available in sizes XS, S, M, L, XL
Stemless 15oz wine glass
Vinyl 3" x 3" sticker