‘Professional-Amateur Concert’ to benefit YEA Music

PORT LUDLOW — Port Ludlow Performing Arts will host a “Professional-Amateur Concert” at 1 p.m. Saturday to benefit YEA Music.

The concert is at the Bay Club, 120 Spinnaker Lane.

Admission is free, but donations to support YEA Music are requested.

The concert features music professors Matthew Daline and Jennifer Chung along with local violinist Kristin Smith.

YEA Music sponsors summer music camps, awards scholarships for music lessons, loans out instruments to families and offers after-school music clinics during the school year.

“We started out mostly in Port Townsend, but now have been able to reach into most of Jefferson County to provide much-needed support to students and school programs wherever we can,” Music Director Daniel Ferland said. “We run our programs almost entirely on donations from local community members and local organizations. Our idea is that we want as many children as possible to have opportunities in music making regardless of their financial status.”

This year’s funds will be used to help support summer music camps in Port Townsend and in Chimacum for students in fourth through 12th grades.

For more information, visit www.yeamusic.org.

Saturday’s program includes Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe, featuring Daline, Chung and Smith, as well as two piano works, Satie’s “Gnossiennes” and Debussy’s “Reverie,” performed by Chung.

The performance will also include some local student musicians demonstrating their talents.

Daline, a violin and viola soloist and chamber musician, holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Juilliard School in New York City, a master’s in music from Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and a doctorate in musical arts from the State University of New York.

Chung, who is married to Daline, earned a master’s in music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a doctorate of musical arts in piano performance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La.

Chung teaches piano in Port Townsend.

Smith holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in music performance from the University of Montana in Missoula, Mont. She is the concertmaster for the Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra.