Concert: Nordic Voices, March 16, 2013

Concert: Nordic Voices
When: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton WA 98337
Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior & military / $8 youth & student
Concert Co-Sponsors: Agency Insurance Center – Pat Patterson and April Fleming; Edward Jones – Todd Tidball and Jim Thatcher
Call (360) 373-1722 to purchase advance tickets.

Our Nordic Voices concert celebrates the Norwegian heritage of Kitsap County. The persistence of such organizations as the Sons of Norway and the Norwegian Men’s Chorus attest to the lasting cultural impact that Norwegian immigrants have made to our region. This concert will reinforce and reinvigorate this cultural heritage by presenting music sung in Norwegian. In addition, both the concert and the pre-concert chat will feature traditional Hardanger fiddles which were brought to Kitsap County in the 19th Century.

Performances of Edvard Grieg’s music with Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt invariably engender great linguistic debates. Ibsen’s text is not in the Nynorsk of West Norway, nor the modern Bokmål of Oslo, but rather in a slightly archaic dialect sometimes called Dano-Norwegian, which has been described by Norwegian patriots as “bowing to the language of the Danish oppressors”. Ironically, many of the 19th Century Norwegian immigrants to the United States spoke this same dialect. This performance will include some of Ibsen’s spoken dialogue for Peer Gynt, Solveig, The Mountain King’s Daughter, and the three Trolls.

Soprano Rebekah Kenote AuYeung is the perfect soloist to perform this repertoire as she personally embodies this tradition. Rebekah’s family, up to her parents’ generation, still spoke and read the Norwegian language.

Ms. Kenote AuYeung, who gained prominence last season by performing in the New York Philharmonic chamber series, will also join the Bremerton Symphony for the finale of Gustav Mahler’s luminous Symphony #4 and in two of the most exquisite pieces ever penned for the female voice; the final songs of Richard Strauss.

Vienna Night: The Passion of Puccini, February 23, 2013

A Bremerton Symphony League Raise the Paddle event benefiting the Bremerton Symphony Association.

Join us for an evening of music, dinner and dancing, featuring select arias from Puccini operas.

Kitsap Golf & Country Club, Saturday, February 23, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Reserved Seating $100 per person (before February 15). Call(360) 373-1722.

Concert: Holiday Traditions – Handel’s Messiah, December 8, 2012

Concert: Holiday Traditions

Date/Time: Saturday, December 8, 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m.

Place: Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton, WA 98337

Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior & military / $8 youth & student

Concert Sponsor: Harrison Medical Center

Call (360) 373-1722 to purchase advance tickets.

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Bremerton Symphony get in the holiday spirit with Handel’s Messiah

The Bremerton Symphony Orchestra nd Concert Chorale are set to put on a full performance of George Frederic Handel’s Messiah on Saturday, December 8th at 7:30 p.m. in the Bremerton Performing Arts Center.

The Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, joined by their Concert Chorale and soloists Janeanne Houston, Barry Johnson, Melissa Plagemann and Christopher Trujillo.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton. A pre-concert chat with Music Director Alan Futterman is held in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m.

Individual concert and season subscriptions for the Bremerton Symphony’s 70th season, which runs until May 2013, are still available. Individual concert tickets are $24 for adults, $19 for senior and military, and $8 for youth and students.

Concert: Music of the Masonic Masters, November 17, 2012

Concert: Music of the Masonic Masters

Date/Time: Saturday, November 17, 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m.

Place: Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton, WA 98337

Tickets: $24 adult / $19 senior & military / $8 youth & student

Concert Co-Sponsors: Franklin Lodge #5, Renton Lodge #29 , Bremerton Lodge #117, William H Upton Naval & Military Lodge #206, Scottish Rite Valley of Bremerton, Kitsap Peninsula Shrine Club.

Call (360) 373-1722 to purchase advance tickets.

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Bremerton Symphony presents Music of the Masonic Masters

The Bremerton Symphony will present some of the greatest music by composers who were celebrated Masons in their concert, Music of the Masonic Masters on Saturday, November 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the Bremerton Performing Arts Center.

The Bremerton Symphony Orchestra, joined by their Concert Chorale and Anna’s Bay Chorale, will perform music written by W.A. Mozart, Jean Sibelius, Gilbert and Sullivan, Ferde Grofé, and John Philip Sousa.

Highlights of the evening include Mozart’s Fourth Horn Concerto featuring our outstanding soloist, Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, President of the International Horn Society. Anna’s Bay Chorale director Matthew Blegen and Bremerton Symphony Concert Chorale director LeeAnne Campos will appear as soloists in selections from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Yeomen of the Guard.

The second half of the program will feature American composers with Ferde Grofé’s Grand Canyon Suite and two marches by John Philip Sousa.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the Bremerton Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton. A pre-concert chat with Music Director Alan Futterman is held in the auditorium at 6:30 p.m.

Individual concert and season subscriptions for the Bremerton Symphony’s 70th season, which runs until May 2013, are still available. Individual concert tickets are $24 for adults, $19 for senior and military, and $8 for youth and students.

70th Season Premiere: Salute to Music, October 13

We will open our 70th season with a Salute to Music, celebrating our historical military influence and honoring our military service members on Saturday, October 13^th at 7:30 p.m. in the Bremerton High School Performing Arts Center.

The concert will include a salute and Parade of the Services, bugle call competition, Saint-Saens brilliant Piano Concerto #2, and Schumann’s Symphony #4. Russian pianist extraordinaire Marina Lashkul appears as guest artist.

The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the Bremerton High School Performing Arts Center. A pre-concert chat with Music Director Alan Futterman starts at 6:30 p.m.

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Concert: Salute to Music

Date/Time: Saturday, October 13, 7:30 p.m.
Pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m.

Place: Bremerton High School Performing Arts Center, 1500 13th St, Bremerton, WA 98337

Tickets: $24 adult / $8 youth

Concert and Season Sponsor: Kitsap Bank

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Individual concert and season subscriptions for the Bremerton Symphony’s 70^th season, which runs from October 2012 to May 2013, are still available. Season tickets are $36 for youth, $100 for senior/student/military and $120 for adults. Tickets can be purchased by calling (360) 373-1722 or at the box office. Box office open one half-hour before the pre-concert chat.

Shred Fundraiser – September 15, 2012

Event: Shred Fundraiser
Place: Albertsons – Wheaton Way
Date: Saturday, September 15, 2012
Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Bremerton Symphony Association and Peninsula Services’ All Shred will hold a Community Shred Event in the Albertsons’ parking lot, 2900 Wheaton Way, Bremerton. For the suggested donation of $1 per pound, we will immediately run your most sensitive documents through All-Shred’s state-of-the-art equipment while you watch.  Pre-paid discount tickets are available at the Bremerton Symphony Association office, 532 5th St #16, Tues-Fri from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Proceeds will benefit Bremerton Symphony Association music and education programs.

Concerto Competition 2013

The Bremerton Symphony Association is looking for exceptional young musicians to participate in a concerto competition. This competition is open to all instruments, and one or more musicians may be selected as winners. The required piece for pianists this year is Saint-Saëns; Allegro appassionato, Opus 70, in C# Minor for Piano and Orchestra. The winning pianist will be invited to perform this work with the Bremerton Symphony on May 11, 2013. Winners on other instruments may be invited to perform on a future concert.

Only selected musicians from the submitted applications will be chosen to audition. All auditions will be held on March 9, 2013. Application deadline is December 31, 2012. Download the application.