You turned out with enthusiasm for the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Concert on Lopez once again, and were rewarded with a dazzling performance that took us to astonishing emotional heights. Your support as concert goers assures that the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival will continue to bring its amazing international artists to our island of appreciative music lovers.

The generous support of Lopez sponsors, anonymous and named, guarantees the presence of musicians from the world’s concert halls here on our stage.

The continued willing hands of dozens of volunteers makes it happen; these concerts could not take place without people to raise the risers, sell the tickets, prepare the reception, clean the hall, set the stage, help the musicians catch their ferry, and a thousand other small tasks – including this year the launch of music education courses that will get us humming along. And of course, none of this would be possible at all without the island full of volunteers who brought Lopez Center into being for the use of all islanders.

With  your support we will do this once again this year. Be with us on Sunday August 11 at Lopez Center, for the reunion of Jeffrey Kahane, pianist and Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; Joseph Swensen, violinist and composer; and Carter Brey, principle cellist of the New York Philharmonic; accompanied by Aloysia Friedmann on viola with a special offering for her new Lopez fans. Check “All Events” at www.lopezcenter.org for ticketing details.

Please contact me to take part as a volunteer or sponsor – 468-4442.

See www.oicmf.org for the entire 16th Season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival!

Micki Ryan

Local arrrangements coordinator, Lopez

Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival