Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival offers world class musicians performing in intimate settings on a beautiful ferry-accessed island off the coast of Washington State. The remote settings and small population guarantees an experience in beauty and camaraderie like no other.

Concerts on August 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th will showcase such masterpieces as the Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata with Bion Tsang, the Schubert Trout Quintet with violinist Andrés Cárdenes and bassist Stephen Swanson, and George Crumb's Voice of the Whale. Martin Chalifour will give a centennial performance of the Debussy Violin Sonata. Saxophonist Timothy McAllister joins us, as well as flutist Lorna McGhee and British clarinetist Michael Collins, playing the beautiful Schumann Fairy Tales.

Our Outdoor Concert on the Village Green will feature the original Paul Whiteman band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with soloist Jon Kimura Parker. The Mirò Quartet, OICMF’s Quartet-in-Residence, returns performing the Brahms Clarinet Quintet with Michael Collins and the Schubert Cello Quintet with Desmond Hoebig. Our 20th-season finale concerts will highlight a world premiere for saw and string quartet by composer Jake Heggie, written for Anita Orne and the Mirò Quartet; pianist Jeffrey Kahane, violist David Harding, violinists Chee-Yun and Benjamin Beilman also perform. Our final program, which will also feature the artwork of fibre artist Geoffrey Shilling, includes Schubert’s Fantasy, Bartók’s Contrasts, and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir of Florence.

Orcas Island, WA

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