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Gloria Ferry-Brennan & Mark Findlay in Concert

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)

In Concert: Gloria Ferry-Brennan, violin, with Mark Findlay, piano.

Local artists Gloria Ferry-Brennan and Mark Findlay return to the WICA stage to present an evening of chamber music masterpieces featuring Beethoven’s electrifying “Kreutzer” sonata and Brahms’ dramatic third sonata in d minor. Rounding out the program will be works by Tchaikovsky and Kreisler.

August 20 | 7:30 PM

TICKETS

Standard - $30
WICA Star - $45

About the Artists

Gloria Ferry-Brennan, violin

Gloria Ferry-Brennan studied with Simon James in Seattle and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of music in Philadelphia. Her summer studies have included the Perlman Music Program and The Aspen Music Festival. Gloria has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Avanti Orchestra, the Saratoga Orchestra, the Ottawa (KS) Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Festival Orchestra, the Sammamish Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, among others. She released her first CD with her band 3 Cent Stamp in 2015. Gloria won first place in the Music Teachers National Association Junior Strings Competition, 3rd place in the Johansen International Competition for Young String Players, and was a concerto competition winner of the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival. She performed in the finals of the International Menuhin Competition and was featured on the National Public Radio program, "From the Top".

Mark Findlay, piano

Mark Findlay received his bachelor's and master's degree in piano performance from the Indiana University School of Music where he studied with Karen Shaw and Michel Block. Mark has participated in chamber and solo master classes with Arnold Steinhart, Michael Tree, James Tocco and Walter Robert and has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mark has also appeared as a featured artist on WGMS radio in Washington D.C. Since moving to Whidbey Island in 2012, Mark has appeared in concert numerous times at WICA in both chamber and solo performances and has participated as orchestra pianist with the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra.

Earlier Event: August 19
Dr. Savage Summer Dance Party
Later Event: August 27
Ryan Stiles with Kent Loomer and Billy Tierney

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.