Festival at a Glance
• Fall Festival Passes $75/ $70 Members (Passes do not include the Oct. 9 & 10 Performances of The Yakima Symphony Orchestra)
• Gourmet pizzas and other heavy appetizers will be available for purchase during all evening performance and full catered dinners are available for purchase before jazz performances and during Pre-Concert Talks, as noted below. Acclaimed local wines will be served at every evening performances.
Friday, October 8, 5:30PM
Opening Gala with Silent and Live Auction
Celebrate the fifth annual Fall Festival! Mingle with festival musicians, take in visual art by Gilda Lyons and savor two new Cabernets released by JB Neufeld. Take home treasures from The Seasons silent and live auction. Admission included with ticket to the Tom Harrell performance.
Friday, October 8, 7:30PM Tickets: $25
The Tom Harrell Quintet
Tom Harrell is widely recognized as one of the most creative and uncompromising jazz musicians of our time. The readers of Downbeat magazine recently voted him "The World's Best Trumpet Player." Check out his remarkably creative and cohesive quintet. Their previous albums were released to critical acclaim and won SESAC awards for topping the radio charts in the U.S.
Saturday, October 9, 7:30PM
Sunday, October 10, 2:00PM
Tickets: $35
The Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Conducted by Lawrence Golan
Guest Artists: Bill Mays, piano
Tom Harrell, trumpet
Conductor, Lawrence Golan, in his premiere season as Music Director of the Yakima Symphony Orchestra. This concert, featuring jazz greats Tom Harrell and Bill Mays along with the YSO Chamber Orchestra, will be a beautiful display of jazz-classical fusion. Audiences will instantly recognize Joplin's rags and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and will be mesmerized by the revolutionary jazz-inspired works by classical composers Darius Milhaud and George Antheil. The audience will also witness the United States premiere of The Wise Children Suite by Tom Harrell. A performance not to be missed!
Sunday, October 10, 7:30PM Tickets: $18
The Bill Mays Trio
Dream-teaming up with drummer, Matt Wilson, and bassist, Martin Wind, Bill Mays highlights his prolific genius as a composer and arranger. Bill Mays carries his listeners into a realm of creativity that is bold, empathetic and melodically enticing. After intermission enjoy Bill Mays in a short interview with Doug Ramsey. Catered dinner served at 7:00PM available for an additional $20. Please reserve by Oct. 7 via telephone to the Seasons Box Office.
Monday October 11, 7:00PM
Tickets: $15
The Finisterra Trio wih
The Seasons String Quartet
Celebrate the thrilling CD release of classical chamber works commissioned and recorded at the Seasons. "Daron Hagen, Complete Piano Trios" capture works by the The Seasons Artistic Director, performed by The Finisterra Trio released on Naxos, the foremost classical record label.
The Finisterra Piano Trio has emerged as one of the most recognized chamber ensembles in the Northwest, with a rapidly growing audience across the U.S. The group has been featured on national broadcasts by NPR and Seattle’s classical station, KING FM.
Post concert join us for a meet and greet with the artists exclusively for Seasons Members.
Tuesday, October 12, 7:00PM
Tickets: $15
New Music Now
Festival faculty members Tanya Stambuck, Simon James, Kevin Krentz, Robert Frankenberry perform recent works by our Composers in Residence Larry Alan Smith and Gilda Lyons, along with new works by Eric Moe and Paula Kimper.
Wednesday, October 13, 7:00PM
Poetry reading by Fall Festival Artist in Residence Sharon Cumberland
Location: Allied Arts of Yakima Valley
Wednesday, October 13, 7:00PM
Tickets: $10
Africa: The Power of Drum and Dance
Michael Wimberly will lead students and professionals in a concert culminating his dynamic work with Yakima and Lower Valley students during The Festival. Michael Wimberly's percussive repertoire is replete with traditional rhythms, but he is also known for cutting- edge music. He has recorded with P-funk, Steve Coleman, Mama Tongue, Charles Gayle, Angie Stone and D'Angelo.
Friday, October 15, 12:00PM
Tickets: $5
Words and Music
Seasons Fall Festival Poet in Residence Sharon Cumberland reads her poetry and faculty members Lyons and Frankenberry perform musical settings of the same poems by the Festival Composers. An exquisite, intimate celebration of the art song. This performance kicks off The Brown Bag Concert Series 2010.
Friday, October 15, 2:00-3:45PM Public Masterclass: David McDade
The Seasons is proud to present the Head of Coach / Accompanists at Seattle Opera in a public master class with the 2010 Festival Composers and Conductors. Tor Blaisdell and Robert Frankenberry will perform arias, conducted by Festival conductors; Gilda Lyons will perform two Festival composer vocal works, accompanied by Mr. Frankenberry. Mr. McDade will critique the conductors and the composers.
Friday, October 15, 7:00PM
Tickets: $23
The Martin Wind Trio
Featuring Saxophonist Scott Robinson and Percussionist Matt Wilson
with Special Guest Dee Daniels
Fresh off the release of his newest album, GET IT? bassist Martin Wind teams up with virtuosic percussionist Matt Wilson, saxophonist Scott Robinson and bluesy vocalist and pianist Dee Daniels. Take an adventurous ride through an evening of original compositions and inspired arrangements of standards (and often hilarious antics). Dee Daniels offers jazz served up with full bodied silky tones that soar to the height and capture the depth of her four octave range. Featuring Sheridan Wines. Full catered dinner served at 7:00PM available for an additional $20. Reserve by Oct. 7.
Saturday, October 16, 6:30PM
Pre-Concert Talk
Meet the 2010 Composer and Conductor fellows who will have their original compositions featured during this evenings performance of the Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra.With Brooke Creswell and Daron Hagen. Full catered dinner available to be served at 6:30PM for an additional $20. Reserve by Oct. 7. Pre- Concert talk included without dinner included with performance ticket.
Saturday, October 16, 7:30PM
Tickets: $25
The Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Conducted by Brooke Creswell
Guest Artists:
Tanya Stambuck, piano
Tim Robertson, electric guitar
Kevin Krentz, cello
The Yakima Symphony Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Don Thulean and Brooke Creswell, presents the world premiere of artistic director Daron Hagen’s Piano Concerto with Tanya Stambuck, soloist, along with a new work by Gilda Lyons and select new works for orchestra and soloists by Festival Composers conducted by Festival conductors. Featuring wines by Southard Vineyards.
A note from Artistic Director, Daron Hagen:
"We've planned an exciting Fall Festival at the Seasons. New friends and old will share their talents with Yakima audiences in a carefully-coordinated sequence of concerts combining jazz, classical and contemporary concert music, poetry, and African drumming.
We're growing! There will be TWO concerts for chamber orchestra. New Yakima Symphony Music Director Lawrence Golan will kick off the festival with a jazz-meets-classical concert that includes music by Scott Joplin, Darius Milhaud, George Antheil, and George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with Seasons favorite composer-pianist Bill Mays at the keyboard. The festival will end with a concert of brand new pieces composed for full orchestra by our national-level festival composer fellows, conducted by this year's festival conducting fellows, and feature the premiere of a new work by Gilda Lyons and the premiere by soloist and festival faculty member Tanya Stambuck of my new Piano Concerto.
We'll be introducing the newly-formed Seasons String Quartet in a program of classical masterpieces and new works and welcoming back the Finisterra Piano Trio. The brilliant jazz composer-pianist Bill Mays returns with a hip new jazz program. Trumpet player and composer Tom Harrell, whom Newsweek Magazine lauds for his "pure melodic genius," will offer original new charts and standards. Percussionist Matt Wilson and his trio will inspire folks to think, laugh, and dance. Percussionist and composer Michael Wimberly will return to the Seasons as artist-in-residence in a reprise of his "Africa: the Power of Drum and Dance" program" -- with all new student performers from around the Yakima Valley region.
This year, composer-pianist-educator-poet Larry Alan Smith is our featured composer-in-residence. He's a brilliant man whose lyrical, muscular music never fails to move audiences. We'll be featuring his music throughout the festival. Robert Frankenberry will return to the faculty as pianist and singer, as well as renowned educators and conductors Brooke Creswell and Donald Thulean. As the Fall Festival's collaboration with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra deepens, I'm delighted to announce that Lawrence Golan has also joined the faculty.
David McDade, Head of Vocal Accompanying and Coaching at Seattle Opera, will give a Masterclass (open to the public) on coaching singers, award-winning author and jazz authority Doug Ramsey will return to speak, and an opening of works by a new visual artist is planned in the Seasons lobby. I'm particularly proud to have invited this year the festival's first poet-in-residence--Seattle University professor Sharon Cumberland, whose poetry has been set to music by all of this year's festival composers and who has graciously agreed to share a concert with them in which she reads her poetry and the composer's settings for voice and piano of her poems are performed by the festival faculty.
I'm so excited about the events we've got planned for you this year. I'm overjoyed to work with the Seasons team to continue our musical journey,combining jazz, classical, poetry, and song in interesting and inspiring new ways. How are we going to fit all of that into just ten days? Consider joining us for several events, or buy a festival pass to enjoy the whole ride to find out!"