WITH CARA KIZER, FRENCH HORN
MICHAEL WHEATLEY, CONDUCTOR
SHORECREST PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2025 @ 2:00PM
In our final masterworks concert of the season, Philharmonia Northwest features some of classical music’s best-kept secrets and most underrated masterworks. Juhi Bansal’s hauntingly beautiful Songs from the Deep plunges listeners beneath the waves on a dive with humpback whales. Seattle Symphony alum Cara Kizer joins the orchestra as soloist on Ruth Gipps’ lush, neo-Romantic Horn Concerto. Prokofiev’s jaunty, klezmer-inspired Overture on Hebrew Themes leads into Beethoven’s unjustly overlooked Fourth Symphony—a “missing link” between his more famous Third and Fifth that stamps our program with a thrilling exclamation point.
PROGRAM:
Juhi Bansal – Songs from the Deep
Ruth Gipps – Horn Concerto, Op. 58
Sergei Prokofiev – Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 4, Op. 60
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
CARA KIZER, FRENCH HORN SOLOIST
Cara Kizer is currently a nationally active freelancer, and college professor in the St. Louis and Illinois areas. Born in Texas, she began horn at the age of 14. Her studies began at Texas Tech University where she studied under Anthony Brittin, a student of James Chambers. She continued on to The Juilliard School for a master’s degree, where she studied under the late Jerome Ashby, Associate Principal Horn of the New York Philharmonic. Cara received an artist diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music where she studied under Jerome Ashby and Jennifer Montone, Principal Horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
As an orchestral musician, Cara has held positions with numerous orchestras. She was Assistant Principal Utility Horn of the New York Philharmonic, and held the same position with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. She also played second horn with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. While in New York City, she played on Broadway, with The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, City Opera, and can he heard on many movie scores. She has been a substitute musician with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra.
Philharmonia Northwest’s 2024-25 Season is made possible in part by generous grants from these Season Sponsors:
