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| | RAISE THE BATON
Fundraising Party!
Sunday, June 21, 2025 at 5 PM
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon
$125 per person
$1000 per table (includes 8 seats plus sponsor perks!)
Raise the Baton is Sunriver Music Festival’s premier fundraising party of the year! This lively event raises vital funds for Young Artists Scholarships and the Festival’s world-class concerts.
Hosted by Maestro Brett Mitchell, the event features performances by advanced Young Artists Scholarship recipients.
Emceed by local personalities Dr. Stephen Marshall and Brett Bizik, this is sure to be a fun evening, with a silent auction, paddle raise, entertainment, and delicious dinner by Bowtie Catering! | Buy Tickets |
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Opening Night Classical Concert: A FRENCH SOIRÉE
Saturday, August 2 – 7:30 PM
Tower Theatre, Bend
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
DUKAS Fanfare from La Péri
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major
FAURÉ Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande
BIZET Selections from Carmen
Opening Night celebrates several important 150th anniversaries in French musical life. The evening kicks off with the Fanfare from Dukas' La Péri for the brass alone. Stewart Goodyear plays the Ravel Piano Concerto in G Major to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer‘s birth. The second half opens with Fauré's stunningly beautiful Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande. And the program closes with selections from Bizet's Carmen to mark the 150th anniversary of both Bizet's passing and Carmen's premiere.
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| | Pops Concert: A Tribute to Broadway & Film Music
Sunday, August 3 – 7:30 PM
Tower Theatre, Bend
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Enjoy the Festival Orchestra in a tribute celebrating musical anniversaries from Broadway (80th anniversary of Carousel and 50th anniversaries of A Chorus Line and Chicago) and the great composer of light concert music, Leroy Anderson, who passed away 50 years ago. Many of Anderson's works were premiered by the Boston Pops, and the orchestra will perform a selection of his greatest hits. The second half highlights great film score anniversaries from 1965 through 1995, including The Sound of Music, Jaws, Out of Africa and more. | Buy Tickets |
| | Classical Concert II:
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION
Thursday, August 7 – 7:30 PM
Tower Theatre, Bend
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Mark Kosower, cello
WILLIAM BOLCOM Commedia for (Almost) 18th-Century Orchestra
TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
MOZART Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
STRAVINSKY Danses Concertantes
Experience different takes on what "classical" music is, rooted in the Classical Era. The Bolcom piece is a fun take on the classical overture that audiences always love. This is followed by Mark Kosower, principal cellist of The Cleveland Orchestra, joining us for Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations, which were inspired by his role model, Mozart. The evening closes with Stravinsky’s brilliantly neoclassical Danses Concertantes. | Buy Tickets |
| | Family Concert
Friday, August 8 – 3 PM
Sunriver SHARC’s Benham Hall
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
This entertaining matinee presents orchestral music in a fun, informal setting. Bring the whole family and enjoy a one-hour concert featuring a virtuosic Young Artists Scholarship recipient with the full Festival Orchestra. An instrument petting zoo is presented prior to the concert. Maestro Brett Mitchell will introduce the various sections of the orchestra for young ears to enjoy, featuring Les Toreadors from Carmen, Leroy Anderson’s Bugler's Holiday and more. | Buy Tickets |
| | Classical Concert III:
THE LEIPZIG CONNECTION
Monday, August 11 – 7:30 PM
Sunriver Resort Great Hall
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
Yi Zhao, violin
SCHUMANN Manfred Overture
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
J.S. BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor (arr. Luke Styles)
J.S. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major
This concert features the three most central composers in the musical life of Leipzig. After Schumann's lively Manfred Overture, Concertmaster Yi Zhao performs the ever-popular Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. The second half is all Bach, including a chamber orchestra arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor (famous from Fantasia) and Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major (featuring the famous Air on the G String). | Buy Tickets |
| | Solo Piano Concert
Tuesday, August 12 – 7:30 PM
Sunriver Resort Great Hall
The picturesque Great Hall sets the scene for a solo piano concert by a 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition medalist, to be announced. This June, tune into the world’s pre-eminent piano competition at cliburn.org to see who our soloist will be! | Buy Tickets |
| | Season Finale Classical Concert:
VIENNA WAITS FOR YOU
Wednesday, August 13 – 7:30 PM
Sunriver Resort Great Hall
Festival Orchestra
Brett Mitchell, conductor
2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition medalist
HAYDN Symphony No. 96, “Miracle“
MOZART Piano Concerto TBA
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5 | Buy Tickets |