With restrictions still in place on large group events due to the COVID-19 health crisis and our top priority being our human and animal friends' safety, we have decided to make the Humane Society for Tacoma and Pierce County's largest fundraising event of the year a VIRTUAL experience. June 20 - 26 will be our > Continue Reading
Take a look into the annual Cascade Conducting masterclass with Maestra Sarah Ioannides, Cascade Conducting Director Teo Benson and composer David Ludwig, new dean and director of music for the Juilliard School. Students of the festival will share their experiences as well. The 2021 Cascade Conducting program will take place during the last two weeks > Continue Reading
Symphony Tacoma Voices Geoffrey Boers, director Symphony Tacoma Voices returns with their first performance gathered together since 2019. Recorded in Tacoma’s First Presbyterian Church, this concert presents three songs that reflect the challenging and heroic work that this group and choirs everywhere have undertaken over the last fifteen months. Morten Lauridsen’s Sure on This Shining > Continue Reading
Celebrate woman-owned businesses during Celebrating Dreams: Strength in CommUNITY Registration is now open for this free virtual event to connect with other female entrepreneurs, mentors, resources, and leaders - all while celebrating female entrepreneurship.
Tacoma Method is an opera composed by Dr. Gregory Youtz with a plot centered around the expulsion of the Chinese population from Tacoma in the late 1800s. Symphony Tacoma was to premiere this piece in November 2020 but it was postponed due to COVID-19. This presentation features three dramatic arias—Home, My Little Cup and Mad, > Continue Reading
For over 30 years Citizens for a Healthy Bay has worked to protect Commencement Bay and engage people to achieve a clean and healthy environment that benefits our community and our South Sound waterways. CHB’s Cheers to a Healthy Bay benefit auction is our largest fundraising event of the year, funds from this event directly > Continue Reading
Sarah Ioannides, conductor James Carter, saxophone Saxophone Fusion features saxophonist James Carter from his 2019 performance with Symphony Tacoma. Selections include Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, which tells the creation story according to African folk mythology with influences of Harlem Renaissance jazz and a multimedia film with art visuals, from African tribal sculptures to works > Continue Reading
Sarah Ioannides, conductor Emily Laliotis, narrator Local composer Deborah J. Anderson’s Kitty’s Big Adventure tells the story of Emma who lives with her grandmother on an island by the sea. Emma’s pet Kitty continually teases Bad Max, the big dog who lives down the road. One day Kitty goes too far and Max chases her > Continue Reading
Live Video Broadcast The Sound of Equity April 28th, 12:00 – 2:15 Speaker: Jacques Colon, Strategic Manager, City of Tacoma Topic: Financial equity in housing
Tacoma Method, is an opera with a plot centered around the expulsion of the Chinese population from Tacoma in the late 1800s. Symphony Tacoma was to premiere this piece in November 2020 but it was postponed due to COVID-19. An excerpt will be released virtually in May featuring three arias performed by New York mezzo-soprano > Continue Reading