Name: Spring Chamber Music Concert in Edmonds
Start: 2026-04-28T19:00:00
Location: Edmonds Waterfront Center

Cascade Symphony Orchestra

A delightful collection of your favorite Christmas carols and light classics, including music by Johann Strauss, Bizet, Puccini, Mancini, Sousa and others. Soprano Kristin Vogel returns to celebrate the season with inspiring holiday songs and famous operatic arias. Acclaimed for her powerful lyric voice and onstage intensity, Soprano Kristin Vogel has been lauded for roles that require dramatic passion and sensitive musicality, such as Puccini’s Tosca, Mimi in La Bohème and Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Performing regularly in Europe and the United States, she divides her time between Vienna and the Pacific Northwest.

Holiday Pops

Edmonds Center For the Arts

For its first concert of 2026, Cascade Symphony performs Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony along with music by Richard Wagner, Leos Janacek and Edouard Lalo. Cellist Sunnat Ibragimov, an Uzbekistan native and current Seattle Symphony member, previously served as Principal Cellist of the prestigious Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has performed with major orchestras in Asia and North America and is pursuing doctoral studies at the renowned Peabody Institute. He joins Cascade Symphony to perform Edouard Lalo’s lyrically romantic cello concerto.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Cascade Symphony presents its annual and very popular Family Concert with a performance of Francis Poulenc’s delightful “Story of Babar the Elephant,” narrated by longtime Seattle radio host, Dave Dolacky, with visual aids to entertain the children. This concert also features the talented winner of our annual Rising Stars Competition.

The Story of Babar

Stunning sisters and Seattle Symphony members, Jacqueline and Katherine Audas, join Cascade Symphony as soloists in Brahms’ magnificent Double Concerto for violin and cello. Both earned degrees from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and have been winners at prestigious international competitions. They have appeared with major orchestras and music festivals on four continents. The concert begins with Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March and concludes with the lush Langsam movement from Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony.

Brahms Double Concerto

During CSO’s Chamber Music Concerts, musicians in small ensembles will perform works of great composers. Program TBA.

Spring Chamber Music Concert in Lynnwood

Maple Park Lutheran Church

Spring Chamber Music Concert in Edmonds

Edmonds Waterfront Center

Cascade Symphony’s 2025-26 season concludes with three centuries of music from Austria, Italy, Bohemia and America, including overtures by Antonin Dvorak (Vanda) and Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story), and Ottorino Respighi’s Roman Festivals. Northwestern Winds (Oboist Edward Benyas, Clarinetist Denise Lum, Hornist Jill Jaques and Bassoonist Steven Morgan), who have collectively performed with the Chicago, Seattle, Milwaukee and Oregon Symphonies, the Seattle, Santa Fe and Chicago Lyric Operas, the Pacific Northwest and Joffrey Ballets, and at the Spoleto, Carmel Bach and Bellingham Music Festivals, among others, appear as soloists in Mozart’s delightful Sinfonia Concertante for four winds and orchestra.