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Arts and Entertainment
June 30, 2025
From: Bellingham Festival Of MusicThe 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
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
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
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
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
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
Date: June 29 - July 20, 2025
Location:
WWU Performing Arts Center - 516 High St, Bellingham, WA 98225
Hotel Leo, 1224 Corwall Ave, Bellingham