Jeffrey Zhao and Aaron Jin, winners of the prestigious Eastside Piano Competition, help open Cascade Symphony’s 64^th season with piano concerti by Felix Mendelssohn and Edvard Grieg. Aaron was a gold medalist in the 2024 Seattle International Virtuoso competition. Jeffrey, gold medalist at the Pacific International Piano Competition, previously performed Rachmaninov with Cascade Symphony in 2022. The concert also includes Anatoly Liadov’s tone poem, Baba Yaga, the lushly beautiful “In the Garden” movement from Karl Goldmark’s “Rustic Wedding” Symphony, and concludes with the rarely performed 2^nd Symphony by Dmitri Kabalevsky.

This Fall program, on Thursday, November 13 at 7pm, includes a wide array of music and ensembles featuring strings, winds, piano and percussion. The Cascade Symphony Wind Quintet performs delightful music by Franz Danzi and Jacques Ibert. Also on the program is music for Marimba, Vibraphone and Piano by Darius Milhaud, W.A. Mozart’s “Kegelstatt” Trio and several other short selections. The concert will last 75 minutes without intermission.

A delightful collection of your favorite Christmas carols and light classics, including music by Johann Strauss, Bizet, Puccini, Mancini, Sousa and others. Soprano Kristin Vogel returns to celebrate the season with inspiring holiday songs and famous operatic arias. Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice and onstage intensity, Soprano Kristin Vogel has been lauded for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality, such as Puccini’s Tosca, Mimi in La Bohème and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Performing regularly in Europe and the United States, she divides her time between Vienna and the Pacific Northwest.

For its first concert of 2026, Cascade Symphony performs Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony along with music by Richard Wagner, Leos Janacek and Edouard Lalo. Cellist Sunnat Ibragimov, an Uzbekistan native and current Seattle Symphony member,  previously served as Principal Cellist of the prestigious Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has performed with major orchestras in Asia and North America and is pursuing doctoral studies at the renowned Peabody Institute. He joins Cascade Symphony to perform Edouard Lalo’s lyrically romantic cello concerto.

Cascade Symphony presents its annual and very popular Family Concert with a performance of Francis Poulenc’s delightful “Story of Babar the Elephant,” 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.

Stunning sisters and Seattle Symphony members, Jacqueline and Katherine Audas, join Cascade Symphony as soloists in Brahms’ magnificent Double Concerto for violin and cello. Both earned degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and have been winners at prestigious international competitions. They have appeared with major orchestras and music festivals on four continents. The concert begins with Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March and concludes with the lush Langsam movement from Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony.

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.

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 28 at 7pm, includes two fabulous large scale chamber works by lesser known composers: the String Octet by Reinhold Gliere and the Sinfonietta for Ten Winds by Jachim Raff. You won’t want to miss these two marvelous hidden gems.

Cascade Symphony’s 2025-26 season concludes with three centuries of music from Austria, Italy, Bohemia and America, including overtures by Antonin Dvorak (Vanda) and Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), and Ottorino Respighi’s Roman Festivals. Northwestern Winds (Oboist Edward Benyas, Clarinetist Denise Lum, Hornist Kyli White and Bassoonist Steven Morgan), who have collectively performed with the Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee and Oregon Symphonies, the Seattle, Santa Fe and Chicago Lyric Operas, the Pacific Northwest and Joffrey Ballets, and at the Spoleto, Carmel Bach and Bellingham Music Festivals, among others, appear as soloists in Mozart’s delightful Sinfonia Concertante for four winds and orchestra.