Sammamish Symphony Orchestra~ Expanded Horizons

Event Schedules

Meydenbauer Center

11100 NE 6th Street, Bellevue 98004

Oct 23 2015 - Oct 23 2015

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM on Fri

More schedule information:
This concert will be repeated on Sunday, October 25, 2015 at 2pm at
Eastlake Performing Arts Center
400 228th Ave. NE, Sammamish, WA 98074

Event Description

In the first concert of the Sammamish Symphony's 24th season, five different composers celebrate countries other than their homelands. Franz Joseph Haydn's Oxford Symphony is one of music's greatest thank-you gifts, written to acknowledge Haydn's Honorary Doctorate from that august institution. George Gershwin's An American in Paris and Malcolm Arnold's Four Scottish Dances are musical picture-postcards of their composers' travels. Bizet's great opera Carmen is the basis for Pablo de Sarasate's fiendishly virtuosic Carmen Fantasy for violin and orchestra. The concert opens with Nicolas Slonimsky's My Toy Balloon, a set of variations on a charming Brazilian folksong.

Featured guest Violinist Jae-In Shin will perform with the orchestra on Carmen Fantasy. Shin has distinguished herself as one of the most promising artists, performing extensively throughout Europe, North America, and Asia since her concerto debut at the age of 10. Her numerous solo engagements include those with the Seoul Symphony, Port Angeles Symphony, UW Symphony, Daejeon Philharmonic, Gloria Chamber Ensemble, Seattle Philharmonic, and Washington Idaho Symphony. Jae-In has also performed live on national television and radio, including appearances on KBS World Radio and KING-FM.

Jae-In is the concertmaster of the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra and has lived in Seattle since 2010.