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Season Sponsor

DR. BRICE ADDISON

This unique series features performances by our resident ensembles Cascade Quartet and Chinook Winds

Chamber music settings give audience members an up-close and intimate experience.

The Sunday Series

2:00PM

First Congregational Church

Fridays @ The Newberry

7:00PM

The Newberry

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2023 - 2024 SEASON

FRIDAY September 29
SUNDAY October 1

GOOD VIBES

FEATURING Jake Henneford MARIMBA

Experience the unique blend of marimba and strings with our own Great Falls percussionist, Jake Henneford, plus classics of Haydn and Mendelssohn.

FRIDAY October 20
SUNDAY October 22

FAVORITES

Members of the Chinook Winds each pick a personal favorite wind quintet work for this delicious and delightful concert, including Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, La Nouvelle Orleans by Lalo Schiffrin, and Mo Suo’s Burial Ceremony
by Xinyan Li.

FRIDAY January 12
SUNDAY January 14

ALL AMERICAN

FEATURING SINGERS FROM GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Enjoy music by American composers–from the classic charm of Charles Ives to the world-renowned songs of Jim Papoulis, and premiere of his string quartet: “Behind Shadows.”

FRIDAY February 16
SUNDAY February 18

ARCHITECTURE + MUSIC

FEATURING VISUAL ARTIST

Jodi Lightner 

Music and art can share a certain complexity and angularity. The Chinook Winds invited talented visual artist Jodi Lightner, whose work is informed by architecture, to collaborate. Music includes Gyorgi Ligeti’s Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet and Back of the Bus by Shuying Li.

FRIDAY March 29
SUNDAY March 31

FEATURING Hillary Schefter HARP

Lyrical features harmonious combinations of the nine talented Cascade Quartet and Chinook Winds members with Hillary Schefter on harp, including a Ravel work for flute, clarinet and string quartet.

LYRICAL

Holiday Music from Stage & Screen

FRIDAY April 19
SUNDAY April 21

REBORN

The repertoire for wind quintet isn’t limited to pieces written specifically for the grouping. Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé was originally composed as a score to an early Russian film. Dvorak’s gorgeous “American” String Quartet breathes another life in this performance.

COMBINE your Symphony Series with gorgeous Chamber Music!

Buy the SYMPHONY SERIES & 
FRIDAY NIGHTS @ THE NEWBERRY TOGETHER
and get the SUNDAY Chamber Music Series FREE!

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FRIDAY May 3
SUNDAY May 5

ENCORE!

Along with Beethoven and Schumann, this concert presents the inaugural chamber selection for the GFSA’s Second Performance Project: Avik Sarkar’s From Voices, which includes recordings of remarkable narratives and stories from Boston’s immigrant community.

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