-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsPoem of EcstasyOctober 28, 2024
We open our season with the Overture to Beethoven’s heroic Opera Fidelio, followed by the charming Joyous Youth Suite by Eric Coates and the mystic Poem of Ecstasy by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. Leonardo Zhou will be the soloist in Camille Saint-Saëns’ virtuosic 2nd Piano Concerto.
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsFall Chamber Music ConcertNovember 12, 2024
The Cascade Symphony Orchestra, in its 63rd year as Snohomish county’s oldest community orchestra, is partnering with the Edmonds Waterfront Center to present a new chamber music series starting this Fall. The performance will take place in the large room at the Waterfront Center overlooking beautiful Puget Sound. The concert will include music by Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak and a bit of holiday music, for wind octet, piano quintet, brass and mixed trios and percussion ensemble.
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsHappy HolidaysDecember 15, 2024
The Holiday Concert is sure to be a blast! Along with your favorite Christmas carols you’ll hear delights from Johann Strauss to John Williams. You might raise your eyebrows hearing Minor Alterations by David Lovrien, who called his medley “Christmas Through the Looking Glass.” Our concertmaster, Christina Wu, will indulge you with the gorgeous Meditation from the Opera Thais by Jules Massenet and stormy Winter from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsBartok and ChaussonJanuary 13, 2025
An exciting evening with Bela Bartók’s fiery Romanian Dances, energizing Rustle of Spring by Christian Sinding, Ernst Chausson’s majestic Symphony bookend this concert, with cellist, Nathan Chan, performing the sensational Cello Concerto by Friedrich Gulda between this musical sandwich.
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsChildren's ConcertFebruary 8, 2025
At the Children’s Concert our younger audience will be introduced to the Cascade Symphony Brass Quintet, as well as a new Rising Star. David Dolacky will narrate the story of Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. (This is our only daytime concert of the season).
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsRossini and DvorakMarch 10, 2025
Rossini’s thrilling Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers opens this concert, which concludes with Antonin Dvorak’s 4th Symphony. In between is music by 20th century British composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s The Bamboula, and clarinet soloist, Anders Peterson, performing Crusell’s remarkable Clarinet Concerto No. 2.
-
2024-2025 Season ConcertsThe Devil's ViolinMay 5, 2025
Tchaikovsky’s magnificent Italian Capriccio crowns our season, in a program that also includes a unique work: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra Cantus Arcticus by Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara, and Tokuji Miyasaka performing Italian virtuoso Niccolo Paganini’s breathtaking Violin Concerto No. 1.
Photo by Marco Prozzo, taken at Edmonds Center for the Arts
Watch and Listen
Rick Steves' Europe: A Symphonic Journey
In his hour-long concert special, Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey, Rick teams up with the Cascade Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Miropolsky, on a musical tour that begins in the USA, then touches down in seven different European countries.
CSO’s Virtual Holiday Pops
Originally streamed on Sunday, December 6, 2020
CSO’s Virtual Winter Concert, “Great English Romantic”
Originally streamed on Monday, January 11, 2021
CSO’s Virtual Children’s Concert, “Discover your Passion!”
Originally streamed on Saturday, February 6, 2021
CSO’s Virtual March Concert, “Carmen”
Originally streamed on Monday, March 8, 2021
CSO’s Virtual May Concert, “Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto”
Originally streamed on Monday, May 3, 2021
General String Auditions
Positions are available in the violin, viola, and cello sections.
Business Alliance
A strong community orchestra:
- Draws visitors who spend money at local businesses.
- Attracts new residents who value culture.
- Enhances life in the local community.
- Cannot exist on ticket sales alone, but needs an investment from local businesses to ensure long-term survival.
Join the Cascade Symphony Orchestra Business Alliance
It's a sound investment!
Support Us
Your gift supports artistic initiatives, music education programs and community outreach.