June 19-24 at the Sitka Summer Music Festival We have an entirely new set of artists to share their talents with you at the Festival this week, with even more personal connections! You'll recognize several familiar faces from recent years such as Yuliya Gorenman (piano), Martin Sher (viola), Christian Colberg (viola), and Cicely Parnas [...]
This Saturday at 10:30am at the Sitka Public Library, Trio Jinx will be working with the Sitka Babies and Books program to provide a fun, engaging concert for children ages 0-4. Founded in 1991, Sitka Babies and Books encourages Sitka children to become lifelong readers by providing books and programs for children. [...]
June 12-17 at the Sitka Summer Music Festival This week Alfredo Oyaguez (piano), Andrew Smith (cello), Tom Stone (violin/viola), Cecily Ward (violin), Doris Stevenson (piano), and Zuill Baily (cello) continue to share their talents with us, and are joined by Trio Jinx. This unique classically-based trio consists of Louna Dekker-Vargas (flutes), Ledah Finck (violin/viola/composition), and Yoshiaki Horiguchi (double bass) and [...]
We welcome young cellists from around the world to Sitka for the 2018 Sitka Cello Seminar. Here are this year's participants! Born in Oakland, California, William Cayanan is a cellist and composer and has recently completed a Bachelor of Music degree in cello performance with a minor in composition from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with [...]
Hermit Thrush - photo by Mike Mammoser Every week here at the Sitka Summer Music Festival Susan Reed hosts a brief discussion about the programs for the upcoming week, and introduces you to some of our guest artists. The June 12th discussion will feature a special collaboration with Sitka Sound Science Center’s Scientist-in-Residence, ornithologist [...]
This Week at the Sitka Summer Music Festival Join us this week as we kick off our summer season in Sitka! This week we welcome dynamic duo Alfredo Oyaguez (piano) and Andrew Smith (cello) to lend a bit of Spanish flare to first half of the summer festival. We also welcome Tom Stone (violin/viola) [...]
The 2018 Alaska Airlines Winter Classics series was a great success! We hope you enjoy this look back at some of our Anchorage Museum and UAA Recital Hall highlights. These concerts would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors: Alaska Airlines, ConocoPhillips, the National Endowment for the Arts, Alaska State [...]
Hello, Anchorage friends! The first week of the Autumn Classics was one to remember! An enormous thank you goes out to our guest artists, everyone who attended our concerts and events, and to Alaska Airlines, whose sponsorship of this concert series plays a vital role in helping us fulfill our statewide mission. We're thrilled to bring [...]
Greetings, Anchorage friends! It is hard to believe that the 2017 Autumn Classics are already here! We are so excited to bring you the best that chamber music has to offer this week and next. In case you haven't been following us on social media, here is what you have to look forward to this [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O27vOwKEjEE On September 17th at 4pm in the UAA Recital Hall, SSMF Artistic Director and cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Susan Reed will perform Michael Daugherty's four movement piece, "Tales of Hemingway," which won the Grammy for classical instrumental solo, classical compendium and contemporary classical composition. Tickets are available by phone at (907) 263-2787, or [...]
