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CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS

A CHORAL COLLABORATION
​with the
​Award-Winning Oak Harbor HS Choirs


 January 25, 2020
S
aturday - 7:30 pm

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts
​
(pre-concert chat begins at 6:45pm)


January 26, 2020
Sunday - 2:30 pm

Oak Harbor High School
(pre-concert chat begins at 1:45pm)

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Program to Include:

G.F. Handel:
Overture from Music for the Royal Fireworks
 
Beethoven: Romance No. 2 for violin and orchestra
Sarah Pizzichemi, soloist

Leontovych: Shchedryk

Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, K.618

Vivaldi: Esurientes implevit bonis from Magnificat, RV610

Vivaldi: Gloria et divitiae from Beatus vir, RV 597.3

 
INTERMISSION

Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1 (Zadok the Priest)

Helvering: Ave Maria    

Mozart: Gloria from Coronation Mass 

O Sifuni Mungu -  Arr. Emerson

Handel: Pastoral Symphony and Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah 
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Don't forget the pre-concert chat 

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with Marta Zekan
Classical KING-FM 98.1 Radio Host
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A native of Oregon, Darren McCoy graduated Magna Cum Laude from Willamette University in 2006 and earned his Masters Degree in 2008 with Honors from University of Oregon. For the past ten years, Darren has  developed a nationally recognized choral program at Oak Harbor High School, conducting the Show Choir, Chamber Choir, advanced choirs and implemented non-auditioned men’s and women’s choirs. Darren is also the director of the Whidbey Community Chorus and can often be found at Whidbey Playhouse both as an actor and music director. 
 
Darren’s numerous community involvement strategies include working with retirement homes, church choirs, bell choirs, and other schools, have earned him the honor “Best of Whidbey” in Teaching  for 2011, 2015, 2016, and 2017 by the Whidbey News-Times.  His choirs have been featured on King 5 News, Fox News Q13, and KIRO Radio as examples of positive growth in arts programs.  In 2012, KCTS 9 awarded Darren McCoy the “Golden Apple Award” for outstanding teachers in Washington and in 2015 and 2017, he was recognized as a quarter-finalist for the Music Educator Grammy™ Award.  

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SARAH PIZZICHEMI, has been Saratoga Orchestra’s Concertmaster since 2016. A native of Seattle, Sarah made her solo violin debut with the Seattle Symphony in 2004.
Sarah went on to receive a Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, and she continued her Master of Music in Chamber Music Performance at UT. Sarah earned her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as part of the graduate string quartet-in-residence. Her dissertation, Virtuoso Violinist Maud Powell: Enduring Champion for American Women in Professional Music, adds to research literature in the field of women in professional art music.
Other ensembles she is or has been a member of include, Skyros String Quartet (10 year anniversary in 2020!), Lincoln (NE) Symphony Orchestra, Auburn (WA) Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and Waco Symphony. 


Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island
P.O. Box 1524 | Langley, WA 98260
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