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.
Please reserve these dates on your calendar.
2025-2026 Concert Season Dates
Sundays at 2 pm, Chimacum Auditorium
October 26, 2025
December 7, 2025
February 22, 2026
April 26, 2026
PROGRAM DETAILS
October 26, 2025
Featuring composer Antoine Martel on Guitar, Piano, Electronic/Digital Music
Antoine Martel was born and raised in Bellevue, Washington, and has been playing music for 27 years. A McGill University graduate with a degree in music (composition), his primary instruments are synthesizer/keyboards, piano, and guitar (acoustic & electric) though he plays many more than those 3. He’s a founding member and currently plays in “High Pulp” & “sunking,” two bands signed to Anti- Records, as well as being a professional composer & producer going by the name of “sous chef.” He has been playing piano since the beginning, guitar for 16 years, and synthesizers for 12, studying both locally (once a Music Works student himself), and internationally in Montreal. He previously served on the faculty of the Academie de Musique de Montreal, and is a past director of Music Works’ Rock Shop summer camps. He is excited to share his love and passion for music & art with others.
In Antoine’s words, “Music. What is it? How is it made? Why are we, as a species, creating it? Playing it? Or even listening to it?
As one of the most widely accepted artistic forms of self expression, music allows us to tap into something outside of ourselves. It transcends you, me, even our planet, and there is no greater gift than to be a part of it. This is a gift I would love to share with you!
PROGRAM
William Grant Still, Threnody In Memory of Jan Sibelius
Antoine Martel, Pas un Monde Mais un Miroir for keyboard, piano, electronics and orchestra *Premiere
intermission
Tchaikovsky Symphony no. 2
December 7, 2025
Featuring music of Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) who was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, art songs, chamber music and music for solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in her abandoned summer home.
She gave her first piano performance at the age of four and had her first composition published at the age of 11. According to her daughter, Florence really wanted to be a doctor but felt the difficulties of becoming a woman doctor at the time were too formidable. Instead, she became that even greater rarity—a woman composer of symphonies. (Text from Wikipedia)
PROGRAM
Jacques Offenbach: Overture to La Belle Hélène
Bizet, Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite no. 2 with Dana Odell, guest conductor (PT Ballet auction winner)
Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Suite
intermission
Florence Price, Concert Overture no. 2 13min
Bizet, Carmen Suite no. 2
February 22, 2026
Featuring Steven Woolbright on snare drum, 1st Prize winner of the 2025 PTSO Young Artist Competition.
PROGRAM
Alexj Gerassimez, Asventuras for snare drum, Steven Woolbright (YAC winner) *no orchestra
Copland, Lincoln Portrait 15min with guest narrator
intermission
Dvorak, Symphony no. 6
April 26, 2026
Luke Fitzpatrick is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and artistic director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. He recently performed the US Premiere of Isidora Zebeljan’s Three Curious Loves with the Seattle Philharmonic and the world premiere of Joël-François Durand’s La descente de l’ange for violin and clarinet. Additionally Luke has performed with Deltron 3030, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective and as a touring member of the Harry Partch Ensemble.
Luke has appeared on recordings released by Ablaze and Centaur records. As a composer, his work has been commissioned and performed by The Harry Partch Ensemble, Figmentum, the Morsel Trio and the Parnassus Project. He received a 2023 CityArtists Grant from the City of Seattle to produce Nesting Dolls & Dreamscapes, a work that explores multiple microtonal realms colliding against one another amid a theatrical and improvisatory landscape.
Luke received his training from UMKC (BM), CalArts (MFA) and the University of Washington (DMA) and is currently concertmaster of Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Festival Orchestra, Federal Way Symphony and Emerald City Chamber Orchestra. He also plays regularly with SMCO, NOCCO and the Portland Opera Orchestra. Besides music related things, Luke is an avid dancer and enjoys biking, eating sushi and collecting shoes. He plays on a bow generously on loan from the Kevin Tao Foundation.
PROGRAM
Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Luke Fitzpatrick, Violin Concerto Nightfall performed by the composer *Premiere
intermission
Fiddler on the Roof by Jerry Bock
Titanic by James Horner
Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber