Olympic Music Festival to host pair of performances

PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Music Festival will finish its summer season with concerts at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The concerts will be in the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park, 200 Battery Way, Port Townsend.

Tickets are $20 to $60 per person at www.olympicmusicfestival.org/2025-concerts.

All vehicles must display a Discover Pass in parking areas on Fort Worden. Passes may be purchased on site.

The festival will close with “Chamber Music Masters” featuring violinists Steven Copes and Sandy Yamamoto, violist Jonathan Vinocour, cellist Efe Baltacıgil and pianists Julio Elizalde and Robert McDonald.

Saturday’s concert, “Dark Passions,” will include works by Ades, Rachmaninoff and Franck.

On the program are three berceuses from Thomas Ades’ 2018 opera “The Exterminating Angel,” Rachmaninoff’s Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 and Cesar Franck’s Piano Quintet in F minor.

Sunday’s season finale, “Tempest and Triumph,” will feature works by Schubert, Brahms and Dvorak.

The program will feature the Allegro in A minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 947 “Lebensstürme” by Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms’ Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119 and Antonín Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81.

For more information, visit www.olympicmusicfestival.org.

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