Discover Music At Seattle Orchestra

The Pacific Ballroom Dance Company will perform on stage with the Symphony during select pieces. Concert-goers can explore and expand their musical knowledge during pre-concert activities in the Samuel and Althea Stroum Grand Lobby one hour prior to performances. Concerts take place Saturday, October 13, at 11 a.m. and Saturday, October 20, at 11 a.m with pre-concert lobby activities beginning at 10 a.m.

The Discover Music! series is designed for children ages 5-12 and their families. Subscriptions are still available. Seattle Symphony offers two series of five concerts each, series A and series B. Tickets are sold in either a 5-concert series package for $90 per adult and $65 per child/senior or individually per concert for $20 per adult and $15 per child/senior.

Marié Rossano

Marié Rossano will debut with the Seattle Symphony as a winner of the Seattle Symphony Young Artists Invitational. She made her debut with Philharmonia Northwest in 2005, and has since performed with the Bellevue Philharmonic Orchestra, Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra, Federal Way Symphony and Seattle Chamber Music Society. Marié studies under Simon James, Seattle Symphony's Second Assistant Concertmaster, and is an active musician at the Academy of Music Northwest, coached by Brianna Atwell, and in the AMN Academy Chamber orchestra, conducted by Alan Futterman. She has been the first or alternate winner of various music competitions, including the Performing Arts Festival Eastside, Marjorie Easley Young Musicians Competition, Seattle Young Artists Music Festival, Simon-Fiset String Competition, Washington State Music Teachers Association Competition and Young Artist Debut Concert Competition.

Carolyn Kuan

In 2004, the Washington Post heralded Carolyn Kuan's Kennedy Center debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, noting, "It is exciting news when any young conductor makes a debut with a major ensemble…Kuan won her case." An advocate of new music, Kuan has served as Assistant Conductor for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music under Music Director Marin Alsop since 2003. Recently, she led four world premieres in Merkin Hall in New York for Music for Japan. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the New York City Ballet in 2004 and 2005, and joined Seattle Symphony in September 2006. In 2003, Kuan became the first female to be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship by the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Austrian Foundation, which resulted in her residency at the 2004 Salzburg Festival. Kuan was named the first Taki Concordia Fellow in 2003 and has received awards from the Women's Philharmonic, the Conductors Guild, the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship and the Susan W. Rose Fund for Music. -- www.seattlesymphony.org