Virtual Pre-Concert Talks
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Ryan Dakota Farris
The Russian Masters
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Valery Saul
London Calling
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Valery Saul
The Calidore String Quartet
Friday, July 11, 2025
Ryan Dakota Farris
Sights & Sounds of Scotland
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Ryan Dakota Farris
Chamber Music at the Leo
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Ryan Dakota Farris
The Viennese Connection
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Valery Saul
An American in Paris
Watch the Pre-Concert Talks
Ryan Dakota Farris
Conducting Institute Fellow, Ryan Dakota Farris discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s opening night. This concert features guest artist Simon Trpčeski, and works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Valery Saul
Conducting Institute Fellow Valery Saul discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s July 5th performance. This concert features guest artist Sterling Elliott, and works by Errollyn Wallen, Edward Elgar, and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Valery Saul
Conducting institute fellow Valery Saul discusses the Calidore String Quartet’s recital at the Bellingham Festival of Music. The quartet will perform works by Samuel Barber, Wynton Marsalis, John Williams, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold.
Ryan Dakota Farris
Conducting Institute fellow Ryan Dakota Farris discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s July 11th performance. This concert features guest artist Simone Porter, and works by Felix Mendelssohn and Max Bruch.
Ryan Dakota Farris
Conducting Institute fellow Ryan Dakota Farris discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s July 13th performance. This concert features members of the BFM Orchestra and the Conducting Institute Fellows, and works by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Antonin Dvořák.
Ryan Dakota Farris
Conducting Institute fellow Ryan Dakota Farris discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s July 16th performance. This performance features guest artists Christina Smith and Sophie Baird-Daniel, and Conductor Laureate Michael Palmer. They will perform works by Carl Maria von Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Valery Saul
Conducting Institute fellow Valery Saul discusses the Bellingham Festival of Music’s season finale on July 20th. This concert features The Bellingham Festival Chorus and works by George Gershwin, Claude Debussy, Germaine Tailleferre, and Gabriel Faure.