Concerts
Concert schedule:
- Fall: December 5, 7:30 p.m.
- Winter: March 15, 7:30 p.m.
- Spring: June 4, 7:30 p.m.
General Concert Information
- All North Sound Youth Symphony concerts are held at Western Washington University in the Performing Arts Center Concert Hall.
- Reserved Parking is provided on concert days in lots 11G and 14G.
- Click here for information on evening parking at WWU
- Entrance to our concerts is free of charge, as a gift to the public and parents of our students, but your generous donations are accepted and appreciated, going to support NSYS and scholarship programs.
- DVD recordings of our concerts are available. Please contact us if you would like to order a DVD of any past concerts.
Concerto Competition Soloists
NSYS concerts usually feature an NSYS member soloist who is the winner of our concerto competition. Click here to find information on our concerto competition and to see bios of former soloists.
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Winter 2012 concerto competition and featured soloist at our upcoming concert is Cellist Shannon Davies who has been a member of NSYS for 2 years.
Congratulations Maya! We look forward to your performance!
Information on our upcoming concert ....
Monday, March 15th, 2012
Shannon Davies is a sophomore at Sehome High School. She started playing the cello in fifth grade, has played with the North Sound Youth Symphony for two years, and has participated in Western Chamber Days and Marrowstone Summer Music Festival at WWU. She has studied with Coral Marchant for three years.
Currently, Shannon is the principal cellist of the Sehome Chamber Orchestra, and also plays with the Sehome Advanced Orchestra. She will perform with the Whatcom Symphony Orchestra in their February concert. In April, Shannon will compete at the WMEA State competition as both a soloist and with the Sehome Chamber Orchestra. Shannon loves to play the cello because it is such a versatile and expressive instrument. She particularly enjoys the challenge of playing Shostakovich because of the complex, intense emotions evoked throughout the piece.
Shannon enjoys sharing her love of music with her students and peers, and plans to pursue a degree in music therapy and music education in college.
Shannon would like to thank her family and friends for all their support, and especially her teachers Kirsten Doud, Coral Marchant, and Morgan Schwab for their guidance and encouragement.
This concert featured performances by:
- The Symphony, conducted by Grant Donnellan
- The Philharmonia, conducted by Morgan Schwab
Publicity documents: Please feel free to print out these documents to publicise out concerts.
- Fall 2011 Concert Flyer (Four on a page - letter size paper)
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