
Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra concert – Sunday, April 27, 2025 at 2 pm

Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra
Our mission is to entertain, inspire and engage our community through musical excellence and affordable concerts.
Poster and photo by Pamela Roberts.
by Vincent Oneppo
by Vincent Oneppo
Our symphony concerts are held Sunday afternoons at 2 PM at Chimacum School Auditorium (91 W Valley Rd, Chimacum). There are open dress rehearsals the Friday evening at 7 pm before each Sunday concert – also at Chimacum School Auditorium.
PTSO concerts are free to attend (but not free to produce). Donations are always gratefully accepted at the door, through the mail or with PayPal.
Program
Aaron Copland, El Salon Mexico
W. A. Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 3 (1st movement) with Anabel Moore (winner of the PTSO Young Artist Competition 2024)
Daniel Gall, Oatmeal Counterpoint* Premiere
Max Bruch, Swedish Dances
FEATURING: Off-the-grid on a small farm in the Pacific Northwest, composer and author, Daniel Gall, tends a garden of creative projects–with a new crop out each season.
Working remotely from his woodsy hermitage, over the years Daniel has collaborated with a host of musicians, ensembles, filmmakers, and choreographers/dance companies, including the Symbiosis Chamber Orchestra, the Glendale Philharmonic, the Definiens Project, the Vientos Trio, Mignolo Dance, Forza Dance, and many others. During the pandemic, he produced PROJECT SCREENDANCE, a social media series in which he collaborated with a different set of performers on a new dance film short each month, resulting in 23 films before calling it quits in Summer of 2022. Before he fled the grid nearly a decade ago, Daniel studied music at UCLA, and was the founder of the Los Angeles based new music organization and concert series, Synchromy.
In addition to his work as a composer, Daniel is a novelist who writes often-satirical and dystopian fantasies based on his experiences off the grid. He strives to connect his musical and literary works through fantastic themes and imaginative concepts, usually involving film or dance. For more about Daniel Gall and his work: danielgallcreativeworks.com
Brief Program Note About “Oatmeal Counterpoint”
1. Good Morning! (time to get up)
2. Oats for Breakfast
3. Exotic Fruit
4. Coffee Time
5. A Moment to Drift and Dream
6. Time to Face the Day
Nutritious, low-fat, high in fiber… Written over a bowl of oatmeal, Oatmeal Counterpoint is a suite of six dances for orchestra that act as a soundtrack to my morning routine. From oats to coffee, and including even a moment to dream, it’s a musical homage to the early hours, that fleeting space in our lives kept just for ourselves, before it’s time to let others in and face the day.
(Photo of Anabel Moore, violinist, is by Peninsula Daily News.)
FEATURING Emmy Ulmer, who is delighted to perform the Werner Thaerichen Timpani Concerto for the Port Townsend community! She fell in love with this beautiful town as a teenager with the Marrowstone Music Festival at Fort Worden. A graduate of the University of Washington, she earned a double degree in Bachelors of Arts and Music in Percussion Performance. A freelancer for over 30 years, Emmy has been a percussionist and timpanist with many different ensembles throughout the greater Puget Sound region. While living in Vienna, Austria, she had the opportunity to play with the Orchester der Technischen Universitaet Wien. Emmy has been the English Captions Operator with Seattle Opera for over 20 years, a complex and rewarding job that fulfills another music side for her. The role she is most proud of is mom to her wonderful daughter, Anneliese. This is for her!
PROGRAM
Werner Thärichen, Timpani concerto with Emmy Ulmer
Georges Bizet, L’arlesienne Suites 1 and 2
Poster by Vincent Oneppo; photo by Karl Perry.
Winners of the PTSO Young Artists Competition 2024
5th Annual Port Townsend Young Artist Competition
April 20, 2024
Grace Lutheran Church, 1120 Walker St, Port Townsend
YAC Coordinator: Mike McLeron
SENIOR
1 Anabel Moore – Praeludium and Allegro-Fritz Kreisler
2 Amidah Soong – Sonata in D major Op. 1 #13, Affettuoso and Allegro-Handel
3 Bella Ferland – Sonatina 1st Mvt-Arthur Olaf Anderson
JUNIOR
1 Juniper Fleischer – Nocturne op. 55 No. 1-Chopin
2 Annaleigh Harrison – Fur Elise – Beethoven
3 Bodhi Fleischer/Kai Anderson – Concerto for Two Violins Dmin BWV 1043-JS Bach
CONDUCTOR AWARD
Nola Bertucci – 4 Morceaux, Op. 82: No. 1. Les Nymphes: Allegro leggiero – M. Moszkowski
Our symphony concerts are held Sunday afternoons at Chimacum School Auditorium (91 W Valley Rd, Chimacum). There are OPEN DRESS REHEARSALS at 7 pm the Friday evening before each Sunday concert – also at Chimacum School Auditorium.
PTSO concerts are free to attend (but not free to produce). Donations are always gratefully accepted at the door. Tigran Arakelyan, Conductor and Artistic Director.
THIS CONCERT FEATURES Seattle-based percussionist/bandoneonist/composer BEN THOMAS. Ben started playing bandoneon in 2006, traveling to Argentina and working with tango musicians from across the world. He tours regularly with the Atlas Tango Project and can be heard on their most recent album, “Estaciones y Sueños”. He was a guest artist with the Eugene Opera in 2018 as the bandoneon soloist for Piazzolla’s “Maria de Buenos Aires”. Thomas has released five albums of original music on Origin Records, spanning jazz, chamber music, and tango. His music explores both traditional tango and how it continues to grow as it encounters new times and new influences. Following the lead of some of the pioneers of the current scene in Buenos Aires, such as Diego Schissi and Exequiel Mantega, Thomas builds pieces combining rhythmic intensity with lush harmonies, whimsy, and an emphasis on storytelling. He studied mathematics and music at Swarthmore College before going to the University of Michigan for a Master of Music in Contemporary Improvisation and the University of Washington for a DMA in Percussion Performance. Thomas has taught music theory, composition, and performance at Highline College since 2001.
PROGRAM
Antonín Dvorak, Carnival Overture
Florence Price, Dance in the Canebrakes
New piece for bandoneon and orchestra* Premiere with Ben Thomas (soloist and composer)
Jennifer Higdon, Blue Cathedral
Alexander Borodin, In the Steppes of Central Asia
JOIN US!
Pictured above are l. to r.: Lisa Lanza, piano; Jeannie Bennett Oneppo, soprano; Sung-Ling Hsu, piano; Marina Rosenquist, violin; Vincent Oneppo, clarinet; Michael Carroll, piano; Joel Wallgren, clarinet; and Pamela Roberts, cello. (Not pictured is Marcy Stewart, viola.)
This FREE concert series features local award-winning soloists, recitalists, chamber musicians and PTSO members. Donations are always gratefully accepted at the door. Seating is limitedand no tickets or reservations are required. We hope you can join us for a short reception after the concert.
Artistic directors for the series are pianist Michael Carroll and cellist Pamela Roberts.
Featured artists for this program are Joel Wallgren, clarinet * Michael Carroll, piano * Marina Rosenquist, violin * Marcy Stewart, viola * Pamela Roberts, cello * Sung-Ling Hsu, piano * Jeanie Oneppo, soprano * Vincent Oneppo, clarinet * Lisa Lanza, piano.
PROGRAM
~ Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 128, Mov. 3 & 4 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
~ Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 13 – Andante by Richard Strauss
~ Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 304 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
~ Élégie Op. 24 for Cello and Piano by Gabriel Fauré
~ Zwei Gesänge, Op. 91 for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano by Johannes Brahms
~ “By Strauss” for Soprano and Piano by George Gershwin
Questions? Contact Pamela Roberts at ChamberMusic@PTSymphony.org.