Winners of the prestigious Eastside Piano Competition, Joyce Ye and Alexander Vollmer, help open Cascade Symphony’s 65th anniversary season with Chopin’s 1st Piano Concerto. The concert also includes one of Beethoven’s most popular works, his Seventh Symphony, whose famous second movement was encored at its premiere.

Cascade Symphony partners with the Edmonds Waterfront Center to present the 3rd year of our joint chamber music series, with concerts in November 2026 and April 2027. The performances take place in the large room at the Waterfront Center overlooking beautiful Puget Sound. These more intimate concerts, give audience members an opportunity to hear Cascade Symphony instrumentalists in a chamber music context. The Fall program, on Tuesday, November 10 at 7pm, includes a wide array of music and ensembles featuring strings, winds, piano and percussion.

A delightful combination of holiday and light classics, including excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss, music by Irving Berlin, John Williams and more. Pianist Zeze Xue will be the featured soloist in George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue for piano and orchestra. Zeze has performed in major concert halls across China, Europe, and the United States, including Ehrbar Hall in Vienna and Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall.

For its first concert of 2027, Cascade Symphony performs César Franck’s stirringly romantic Symphony in D minor. Cellist Jesse Krentz joins the orchestra to perform Edward Elgar’s soulful cello concerto. The winner of numerous national and international competitions, Jesse has appeared on National Public Radio’s From the Top, on KING FM’s Northwest Focus, and as a soloist with the Seattle Youth Symphony at Benaroya Hall. The program opens with Rossini’s famous Overture to the Barber of Seville.

Cascade Symphony presents its annual and very popular Children’s Concert with a performance of Camille Saint-Saëns iconic Carnival of the Animals, narrated by longtime Seattle radio host, Dave Dolacky, with visual aids to entertain the children. This concert also features the talented winner of our annual Rising Stars Competition.

Seattle Symphony Associate Principal Second Violin, Cameron Daly, will be the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s magnificent Violin Concerto. Cameron was formerly the First Violinist of the Callisto Quartet and on the faculty at the Yale University School of Music. The concert begins with a Prelude by Edouard Lalo and concludes with Brahms’ Tragic Overture and the stirring opening movement of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”).

Cascade Symphony Orchestra members present our Saturday Spring Chamber Music concert in Lynnwood on April 28 at 7:30pm at Maple Park Lutheran Church. The concert features numerous small ensembles featuring strings, winds, piano and percussion, in an acoustically ideal setting.

Cascade Symphony partners with the Edmonds Waterfront Center to present the 3rd year of our joint chamber music series, with concerts in November 2026 and April 2027. The performances take place in the large room at the Waterfront Center overlooking beautiful Puget Sound. These more intimate concerts, give audience members an opportunity to hear Cascade Symphony instrumentalists in a chamber music context. The Spring program, on Tuesday, April 20 at 7pm, includes iconic Serenades for 13 instruments by Richard Strauss and W.A. Mozart. The concert will last 75 minutes without intermission.

Cascade Symphony’s 2026-27 season concludes with one of the greatest artistic works of Western civilization: the Requiem by Italy’s greatest composer, Giuseppe Verdi. According to one Verdi scholar, “Never before had a Requiem Mass been greeted like this. But then, never before had there been a Requiem Mass like this: agnostic, dramatic, popular.” The work spans seven movements, lasting 100 minutes, and will feature the Sno-King Chorale and four internationally acclaimed vocal soloists.