Classical Music
for the Eastside
Sammamish Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to performing classical favorites and innovative works for audiences in Sammamish, Bellevue, and the greater Seattle metropolitan area.
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2023-2024 Season Concert Four
Unique Sounds
Sunday, April 28, 2024 | 2:00PM
Eastlake Performing Arts Center
In a distinct departure from the usual sounds of a symphony concert, the Sammamish Symphony presents four composers whose quests for new sonorities led them down unique and appealing paths.
Darius Milhaud was the first European composer to compose a masterpiece, The Creation of the World, blending classical forms with American jazz. Heinrich von Biber's Battalia is an unbelievably forward-looking work from 1673 which uses a variety of surprising techniques to describe a group of soldiers preparing for battle.
Giovanni Gabrieli's fascinating and opulent Renaissance works for multiple brass choirs still speak to audiences centuries later. Our guest soloist Jack Reed will afford a rare opportunity to hear a solo percussionist: Emmanuel Séjourné's Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra
Explore the season finale for our 2023-2024 Season
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"This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This England"
Sunday, June 9, 2024 | 2:00PM
Eastlake Performing Arts CenterMusic Director Adam Stern, self-described as "an unashamed Anglophile", has programmed a season finale indulging his great love for English music.
The rollicking overture to Aristophanes' The Wasps by Ralph Vaughan Williams will cap a program that includes music by Vaughan Williams' best friend Gustav Holst (of Planets fame), the Impressionist Frederick Delius, the composer-pianist John McCabe (represented here by music from his opera based on C. S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe), and the budding talent George Butterworth, whose career was tragically cut short when he perished in the final days of World War I.
These diverse voices will paint a picture of England in all its powerful and poetic glory.
Prior 2023-2024 Concerts
2023-2024 Season Concert Three
Humor: Mankind's Greatest Gift
Sunday, February 25, 2024 | 2:00PM
Eastlake Performing Arts Center
The Sammamish Symphony takes a delightful look at musical humor as exemplified by some major creative figures.
Joseph Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony (No. 94) is a longtime audience favorite due to its famous rude awakening to those who nodded off during his slow movements.
Gioachino Rossini, whose operatic output contains some of the medium's funniest scores and librettos, is represented by the overture to Il Signor Bruschino, which contains some unexpected percussive effects from the orchestra's string section.
Peter Schickele, the mastermind behind the works of P. D. Q. Bach, is the party responsible for Quodlibet, a mélange of themes gleefully stolen from everything from Beethoven symphonies to "Tea for Two."
Our special guest artist, soprano Stacey Mastrian, will present a bouquet of humorous songs spanning several centuries, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure.
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Holidays in Sammamish
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 2:00PM
Eastlake Performing Arts Center
at Eastlake High School
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A Sammamish Family Concert
Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 2:00PM
Sammamish Hills Lutheran Church