2026 Festival Season
Opening Night | Friday, July 3rd, 7:30pm
WWU Performing Arts Center
Zuill Bailey, Cello
Program*
Carlos Simon: Fanfare and Overture
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
Zuill Bailey, Cello
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
Friday, July 10th, 7:30pm
WWU Performing Arts Center
Tessa Lark, Violin
Key'Mon Murrah, Countertenor
Program*
Arturo Márquez: Danzón No. 2
Clarice Assad: Violin Concerto in D Major
Tessa Lark, Violin
Jake Heggie: Earth 2.0
Key'Mon Murrah, Countertenor
Tuesday, July 14th, 7:30pm
WWU Performing Arts Center
Calidore String Quartet
Program*
Benjamin Franklin: String Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 22 in B Flat Major, K. 589
Caroline Shaw :Entr'acte
Antonin Dvořák: Quartet No. 12, "American"
Thursday, July 16th, 7:30pM
WWU Performing Arts Center
Andrew von Oeyen, Piano
Program*
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Andrew von Oeyen, Piano
Joan Tower: The Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Tuesday, July 21st, 7:30pm
WWU Performing Arts Center
Maria Valdes, Soprano
Program*
Program to include:
Barber: Knoxville 1915
Maria Valdes, Soprano
Saturday, July 25th, 7:30pm
WWU Performing Arts Center
Blake Pouliot, Violin
Program*
Reena Esmail: Testament
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto
Blake Pouliot, Violin
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
*All programs subject to change.