WITH VIRGINIA ELIZONDO, SOPRANO
MICHAEL WHEATLEY, CONDUCTOR
SHORECREST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2025 @ 2:00PM
Perhaps the most influential music teacher in history, Nadia Boulanger taught over 600 American musicians through her seven-decade-long career; Philharmonia Northwest celebrates her profound impact on our nation’s classical music with works by four of her most prominent U.S. alumni. The program begins with a world premiere orchestration of R. Nathaniel Dett’s dreamy, poetry-inspired Cinnamon Grove by WWU professor Dr. James Ray. Then, Virginia Elizondo, a “young, blooming, dramatic soprano,” joins the orchestra as soloist on Samuel Barber’s swooning Knoxville Summer of 1915. The orchestra explores a duo of short works by pianist-composer Mary Howe before presenting a rare visitor to the concert hall: the complete ballet score to Aaron Copland’s landmark, Appalachian Spring.
PROGRAM:
R. Nathaniel Dett, arr. James Ray – Cinnamon Grove
Samuel Barber – Knoxville Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Mary Howe – Sand & Stars
Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring (Complete Ballet Version)
SEASON TICKETS
“Pick 3” (3 Concerts)
Adult: $75
Senior/Student: $50
Full Season (8 Concerts):
Adult: $190
Senior/Student: $135
SINGLE IN-PERSON TICKETS
Adult: $30
Senior/Student: $20
Child (under 18): Free
VIRGINIA ELIZONDO, SOPRANO
Described as “a young, blooming, dramatic soprano with the aura of Gundula Janowitz,” Virginia Elizondo is a proud, born-and-raised Houstonian. She attended The University of Texas at Austin where she studied voice with Dr. Cynthia Morrow, receiving a Bachelor of Music in Music Business with a Voice Performance Certificate. She completed her Master of Music in Voice Performance at the University of Washington in Seattle, studying with Dr. Carrie Shaw. Recent and upcoming performances include Mozart’s Requiem (soprano soloist, Tyler, Texas), the world premiere of The Ribchester Edition of Claudio Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (Drusilla, Trentino Music Festival, Italy), Joe Illick’s Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World (Frida, Seattle Opera), Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine (Elle, International Summer Opera Festival of Morelia, Mexico), Opernfest Prague, Tacoma Opera’s Intermezzo series, and TUNDI Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival as Ortlinde (cover) in Die Walküre, where she will also participate as an invited singer in the Dramatic Voices Practicum. Virginia loves reading mysteries and believes that all good road trips start with a Beach Boys sing-along. She and her husband live in Anacortes, Washington with their three young children.
Philharmonia Northwest’s 2024-25 Season is made possible in part by generous grants from these Season Sponsors:
