The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra’s season finale will feature the debut of new work by one of the most-performed composers of the day, as well as a special guest performer.
BSO’s final concerts of the season are 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 3 and 3 p.m. Sunday, June 5, with a special pre-concert chat at 2:15 p.m. Sunday at Bainbridge Performing Arts.
Tickets, $19 for adults and $16 for seniors, students, military and teachers may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206-842-8569 or in person at Bainbridge Performing Arts (200 Madison Ave. North).
Each youth guest receives free admission when accompanied by a paying adult.
BSO, as part of New Music for America, commissioned “Dreamtime Ancestors” by Christopher Theofanidis — one of the most-performed composers of the 21st century. One orchestra from every state, including the BSO, was selected to present the premiere of this new work.
To close the season, the orchestra will perform Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 8 in G major,” one of the composer’s most-beloved and uplifting symphonies.
The season’s final shows will also see a guest appearance by Leah Deobald, the first-place winner of the BSO’s 2016 Young Artist Competition for a performance of Beethoven’s “Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, op. 37, first movement.”
Widely regarded for her “hauntingly beautiful sound” and “extreme virtuosity,” 15-year-old Leah was a top-prize winner in the 2015 Washington Music Teachers National Association in “senior piano performance” — despite being the youngest competitor — and the 2014 Crescendo International Piano Competition in New York City as well as the 2013 Tzar’s Village Divertimento International Music Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Leah has appeared in prestigious venues reaching from Carnegie Weil Recital Hall in New York City to Benaroya Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle, to Pavlovsk Palace near St. Petersburg in Russia and beyond.
Find out more about BPA and BSO at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BPAonline and www.facebook.com/BainbridgeSymphonyOrchestra.
