PORT ANGELES — More than a dozen musicians who nurtured their talent in Port Angeles School District music programs will perform a benefit concert — from strings to strings.
Proceeds from “A Celebration of Strings” will support string music education through the Port Angeles Education Foundation. The performers include Stephen Schermer, double bass; James Garlick, violin; Traci Winters, cello; Sabrina Scruggs, violin; Amanda Lukens, violin; and others.
The concert will be at 5 p.m. Saturday in the auditorium at Port Angeles High School, 304 E. Park Ave.
Tickets for $12 can be purchased at pastrings.brownpapertickets.com or at the door.
Schermer is a bassist with the band Torch, assistant principal bassist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra and principal bassist with the North Corner Chamber Orchestra. He also teaches at the University of Puget Sound.
Born in Port Angeles, Garlick feels equally at home as a chamber, orchestral or solo musician.
As the violinist of the Onyx Chamber Players, James recently recorded the piano trio works of David White, to be released on the Naxos label later this season.
Winters joined the Port Angeles Symphony by the time she was in middle school. Now, she is principal cellist with the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
Scruggs teaches strings in the Port Angeles School District and frequently performs with the Port Angeles Symphony.
Lukens currently plays violin in the Rainier Symphony and studies with concertmaster Ilkka Talvi.
She graduated from Port Angeles High School in 2008 and played as a first violinist in the PAHS Chamber Orchestra from 2004 to 2008.
