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Bellingham Festival Of Music 2025 - Bellingham, WA
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Bellingham Festival Of Music 2025

Arts and Entertainment

June 30, 2025

From: Bellingham Festival Of Music

The Bellingham Festival of Music is one of America’s premier virtuoso orchestra festivals. Each summer the Festival returns to Bellingham, Washington to perform a repertoire of the finest symphonic music. Members of the orchestra all hold artistically prestigious positions elsewhere, and many of them are principal players in major North American symphony orchestras. The Festival also features world famous guest artists and young rising stars.

Schedule

Opening Night | Sunday, June 29th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

The Russian Masters

Dmitri Shostakovich – Festive Overture

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

Simon Trp?eski, piano

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 5

Concert Sponsor

David & Carol Robinson

Saturday, July 5th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

London Calling

Errollyn Wallen – Chorale for Strings

Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto

Sterling Elliott, cello

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No.2 “London”

Concert Co-Sponsors

Phyllis & Charles Self

Charli Daniels

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Tuesday, July 8th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

Samuel Barber – String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11

Wynton Marsalis – At the Octoroon Balls (selections)

John Williams – With Malice Toward None (from the film “Lincoln”)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold – String Quartet No. 3 in D Major, Op. 34

Concert Sponsors

Jack & Marybeth Campbell

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Friday, July 11th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

Sights and Sounds of Scotland

Felix Mendelssohn – Fingal’s Cave Overture

Max Bruch – Scottish Fantasy

Simone Porter, violin

Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”

Concert Sponsors

Kurt & Wilma Schweickhard

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Sunday, July 13th, 4:00pm

Hotel Leo, 1224 Corwall Ave., Bellingham

Chamber Music at the Leo

An afternoon concert featuring members of the BFM Orchestra and the Conducting Institute Fellows.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings Op. 48

Antonin Dvo?ák – Serenade for Winds in D minor Op. 44

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Wednesday, July 16th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

The Viennese Connection

Michael Palmer, conductor

Carl Maria von Weber – Overture to Oberon

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto for Flute and Harp

Christina Smith, flute; Sophie Baird-Daniel, harp

Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 4

Concert Sponsors

John Binns & Julie Fleetwood

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Season Finale Concert | Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm

WWU Performing Arts Center

Program

An American in Paris

George Gershwin – An American in Paris

Claude Debussy – Trois Nocturnes (Three Nocturnes)

Germaine Tailleferre – Petite Suite

Gabriel Fauré – Pavane

George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess – Symphonic Picture

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Date: June 29 -  July 20, 2025

Location:

WWU Performing Arts Center - 516 High St, Bellingham, WA 98225

Hotel Leo, 1224 Corwall Ave, Bellingham

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