EDMONDS — Cascade Symphony Orchestra presents A Violin Festival on Monday evening featuring the brilliant winners of the Seattle Music Teachers Association’s Simon-Fiset String Competition.
Violinist Shintaro Taneda will perform the Allegro non troppo movement from Lalo’s “Symphonie Espagnole.” Shintaro is a sophomore at Lynnwood High School and a student of Margaret Pressley. He has won many other contests and has made debut performances with numerous orchestras in the region.
Violinist Kayla Yagi-Bacon will perform the Romance from Wieniawski’s “Concerto No. 2” and Sarate’s “Zapateado.” Kayla is a ninth-grade student at Northshore Junior High in Bothell. She also studies with Margaret Pressley, and also is a multi-contest winner and soloist.
And violinist Takumi Taguchi will perform Tchaikovsky’s “Valse-Scherzo.” Takumi is a Shorewood High School sophomore and a student of Simon James. He also is a prize winner and soloist.
The orchestra opens the concert with the Overture to the opera “The Tsar’s Bride” by Rimsky-Korsakov. The concert ends with Dvorak’s “Symphony No. 6.”
If you go
Cascade Symphony, 7:30 p.m. March 13, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave. N. Tickets are $27 general admission, $22 for seniors, $15 for students with ID and $10 for children. Call 425-275-9595.
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