Seattle Festival Orchestra is a volunteer community orchestra that presents concerts to delight and engage a 21st century audience. With diverse programming, SFO creates space for its audience to experience the catharsis of the wide range of emotions available in orchestra music, to feel with our musicians the joy and sorrow, wonder and ecstasy of our art. In order to create an engrossing concert experience, SFO consistently breaks down barriers between performer and audience and seeks out opportunities for audience engagement. SFO believes strongly in universal access to the arts, providing family- friendly concerts for kids, young soloists and a side-by-side performance opportunity for local high school students.

Schedule of Events:

November 23, 2024

The Seattle Festival Orchestra is pleased to announce that this November, we will be offering FREE admission to our reduced-length Family-Friendly concert! Children are invited to experience a full symphony concert at our smaller venue, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, without their adults needing to worry about model behavior. Some audience chatter is expected; dancing in the aisles is encouraged!

The first two works on the program are by Seattle teen composer Brannon Warn-Johnston. She takes the audience on a journey into the wilderness, where she goes backpacking with her violin and staff paper, to experience scorching heat, cool waters and hope. Completing the program is SFO's own Liam Frye-Mason playing the beautiful and melodic Cello Concerto by Kurt Atterberg, followed by Sibelius's triumphant Symphony No 2.

November 24, 2024

"Escape expresses going through something hard and then escaping into the world, nature and being free again."  - Brannon Warn-Johnston

Dr. Yuchi Chou leads the orchestra in its season opener, Escape, featuring two works by Seattle composer and violinist Brannon Warn-Johnston. With a theme of beauty and struggle, this concert takes the audience on a journey into the wilderness, where Warn-Johnston goes backpacking with her violin and staff paper, to experience scorching heat, cool waters and hope. Completing the program is SFO's own Liam Frye-Mason playing the beautiful and melodic Cello Concerto by Kurt Atterberg, followed by Sibelius's triumphant Symphony No 2.

Date: November 23 - 24, 2024

Time: 2:00 pm

Location: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 4805 Northeast 45th Street, Seattle, Washington 98105

Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98101

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