Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival

Well, here we are - the final week of the 2024 June Festival! Three performances and one open rehearsal remain. Portrait of an Artist, featuring the lovely & talented and Tasting Music on Friday, exploring Piano Quintet in F # minor by Amy Beach, are both at Rôtie Cellars’ production facility at the airport. Thursday from 10-12, get front row seats to Quartet rehearsal at Penrose Library on the Whitman campus. The Grande Finale, Festival Series 4, will showcase local legend David Glenn and our 2024 poster composer F***y Mendelssohn, as well as the Beach Quintet. AT THE MOMENT, tickets are still available for each night. Head to WWCMF.org to get yours!

Chamber music fans, there are TWO free community performances this week! A full concert today at 2:30 pm at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, featuring PUBLIQuartet; and open rehearsal, 10 am-noon on Thursday at Penrose Library on the Whitman campus, where you’ll hear our musicians get ready for poster girl F***y Mendelssohn String Quartet in E flat! Both events free and open to the public. See more at WWCMF.org/community

Every performance of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival has moments of brilliance, can take your breath away, dazzles the senses. But no performance brings so many of those moments together like Collage. Is it the beautiful barn setting? Is it the break for sunset? Is it the exquisite lighting? Or is it all of these, combined with the most talented and passionate musicians in one place? We hope you keep coming, year after year, to someday find the answer.

We have a stable of incredible musicians. And tomorrow they will be playing one of Walla Walla’s great stables… ‘Hey!’ is for Mozart!

Open rehearsal, 10 am to noon at Royce Stables - 1064 Abbott Road.

Mozart Clarinet Quintet featuring Timothy Christie, viola; Norbert Lewandowski, cello; Vanessa Moss, violin; Maria Sampen, violin; and Kevin Schempf, clarinet

A trademark of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival returns tomorrow: Open Rehearsal at Green Valley Gardens on Plaza Way! 10 am - 12 pm!

Attention Music/Poetry Nerds! We are pleased once again to be hosting an Open Rehearsal for the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival this Thursday, 6/13, from 10-12. They'll be performing 5 pieces for string quartet by poet Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Who knew?). Here's a little more info:

https://www.earsense.org/chamber-music/Samuel-Coleridge-Taylor-5-Fantasiestucke-for-String-Quartet-Op-5/

Kicking off the 17th season of the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival with a joyful noise, Cerus Quartet *killed* at Reininger Winery! You can see them in free concerts on Saturday in Waitsburg at the Plaza Theatre and Monday in Dayton at The Club. See the full Festival schedule at WWCMF.org, the link is in our bio!

The June Festival begins this week! See the full list of events and featured artists at WWCMF.org!

Here’s a terrific Valentine gift idea: a WWCMF Gold Pass! The gift of live music, performed by world-class musicians, in unique spaces - it just can’t be beat! Well, maybe by a trip to Portugal, but that’s not why we’re here…head to WWCMF.org to see what a Gold Pass gets ya! And mark your calendar: June 6-20, 2024!

As requested:
Portrait of an Artist, Artur Girsky, violin
Featuring Benjamin Hochman, piano
Thursday January 11, 2024
Foundry Vineyards

Bach Sonata for Solo Violin in G minor
I. Adagio

Alfred Schnittke “Suite in the Old Style” (1972)
I. Pastorale. Moderato
II. Ballet. Allegro
III. Menuet
IV. Fuga. Allegro
V. Pantomime. Andantino

Arvo Pärt, Fratres (1977)

*Thanks to our fabulous audience for making their way to the performance in the ever-worsening weather!*

This cold snap is here for a few days! Although performances tonight and tomorrow are sold out, we invite you to warm up with the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival performance on Sunday evening at the Gesa Power House Theatre - featuring Brahams and contemporary composer Ned Rorem. Go to WWCMF.org for tickets!

Ring in the New Year with a tax-deductible gift to the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival! Give through the Valley Giving Guide (https://www.valleygivingguide.org/organizations/walla-walla-chamber-music-festival) or use the easy DONATE button on our site: https://www.wwcmf.org/donate We couldn’t bring world-class musicians to town, or play some of the world’s best music in our valley’s fabulous venues without your help!

This Cyber Monday, why not give the gift of LIVE MUSIC? The January Festival happens the 11th through the 14th, featuring pianist Benjamin Hochman playing Beethoven’s Op 109 and welcoming back the gorgeous Girsky String Quartet! Go to WWCMF.org to get tickets - to give, for yourself, or both!

Events — Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival Upcoming Events Jan 11 Portrait of an Artist Portrait of an Artist — Artur Girsky, Violin Thursday, January 11, 2024 6:00 PM 7:00 PM Foundry Vineyards (map) Google Calendar ICS Violinist Artur Girsky has led a fascinating life. It started in Riga, Latvia, in those days an SSR of the USSR (long sin...

It’s nearly impossible to believe the June Fest has been done for more than a month! Lest you think we have been resting on our laurels, here’s what’s next:
Winter Festival, January 11-14 2024

Featuring Internationally Acclaimed pianist, Benjamin Hochman and the Girsky String Quartet in music by Schubert, Brahms, Rorem and more.

The Silver Pass is on sale now at wwcmf.org— your ticket to everything!

It seems impossible, but tonight is the final performance of the 2023 Festival. We invite you to celebrate with us at the Gesa Power House Theatre at 7:30 pm - there are a handful of tickets left for an outstanding program for cello quartets (4 cellos!!) and duets, and the gorgeous Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 to close the June Festival. WWCMF.org
Thank you for supporting live chamber music in the Walla Walla Valley!

What an absolute delight to welcome to Walla Walla! How soon can you come back?

showed their individual skills tonight, and we can hardly wait to experience the quartet parts adding up to more than just four incredibly talented musicians! Special Event tickets are still available at the website. Just three more performances (and one open rehearsal) in the 2023 June Festival - don’t miss this!

It’s another busy weekend for the Festival: Sounds Like Fun! free kid’s concert at the library today at 1, and Tasting Music tonight featuring masso, our Emerging Quarter Fellows (this event is sold out); Festival Series tomorrow with the spotlight on trumpeter Billy Ray Hunter (tickets still available!).

And next week? The astonishing Seven)Suns string quartet, exploring dystopian music rooted in the language of avant-metal and hardcore (see what that means in the video!). On Tuesday, come meet Jennifer DeVore, cello; Fung Chern Hwei, viola; Adda Kridler, violin; Earl Maneein, violin; accompanied by Ronaldo Rolim on piano. Then see them come together for a Special Event on Thursday! More info and tickets at WWCMF.org!

https://youtu.be/WDXebSU5TqQ

seven)suns plays Pantera - "This Love/Domination" seven)suns is a string quartet named after end times Buddhist prophecy.www.sevensunsmusic.cominstagram/twitter .com/7sunsmusicRIP DIME...

We can't wait to see you at the library tomorrow - with ice cream!

Tomorrow: School's out for Summer Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival Concert! Ice cream hosted by Friends of the Library, and everyone signs up to be a summer reader:

https://www.wallawallapubliclibrary.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/9630/60

Portrait of an Artist is back! Thursday, June 15 - doors at 5, music at 6!
Christina McGann first visited Walla Walla in 2008, violin in hand. She recruited board members to WWCMF just by practicing with the window open, both an invitation and a call to action.
Christina returns to WWCMF this season with not just her violin, but also her viola. Her recruiting efforts are going into overdrive. Who can resist the siren song of a viola played well? Christina is joined by Whitman College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Piano Tom Hicks, making his WWCMF debut. Music by Schubert, Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski. See you there!!

Introducing Chicago-based saxophone quartet - the 2023 Emerging Artist Quartet Fellows! Look for them around the community this week - in Waitsburg, at the Walla Walla Public Library, and at Friday’s Tasting Music event (and your kids may see them at school, too)!

The Emerging Artist Quartet Fellowship was inaugurated by WWCMF in 2022 with the goal of sharpening community engagement activities while offering an emerging quartet the opportunity to gain valuable experience making music in the Walla Walla Valley community. During this residency, masso performs for hundreds of kids in the Walla Walla school system, presenting programs bilingually in English and Spanish. These performances provide young people gateway exposure to classical music, and reinforce the importance of representation in musical ensembles and concert repertoire. Come see for yourself! Info and tickets at WWCMF.org!

Come enjoy the ambience (and beer) at Crossbuck Brewing for a pop-up concert tomorrow at 5!

Coming up this week: Special Event - Collage! We can count the number of tickets left for Monday at Abeja on one hand; there are slightly more available on Tuesday. Don’t miss this immersive chamber music experience!

The scene from Tasting Music - see this Super Group (Maria, Rowena, Norbert and Tim!) tonight at the Festival Series, featuring the Arensky String Quartet and Florence Price Piano Quintet in A minor, adding the amazing Tom Rosenkranz! WWCMF.org for details and tickets!

It’s a busy weekend here, with chamber music at some special places in the valley! Tonight, we’re back for Taste of Music featuring Arensky String Quartet No. 2 in A minor. Then we’re back to Walla Walla’s premiere live music spot, for the Festival Series on Saturday. And Sunday’s Special Event with moved to - we can’t wait to see you there! Go to WWCMF.org for details and tickets!

SUNDAY VENUE CHANGE! Tickets are still available for the Special Event — Pacific MusicWorks and we are relocating to Yellowhawk Resort for an evening of baroque music performed on period instruments by Pacific MusicWorks (Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin; Henry Lebedinsky, harpsichord; Adaiha MacAdam-Somer, viola da gamba/baroque cello). Details at WWCMF.org!

The Festival Cycle begins again tonight, with Portrait of an Artist featuring cellist Rowena Hammill! Foundry Vineyard doors will open at 5, and the 1-hour interview/performance will start at 6. Wine available by the glass or bottle, of course.

Rowena Hammill is Associate Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. She divides her time between Los Angeles and Vashon Island, Washington, where she is the director of Vashon Chamber Music and the Vashon Island Cello Camp. Come meet Rowena and hear some more amazing music - go to WWCMF.org for tickets!

Join us in a gorgeous setting for another open rehearsal - today at 10!