KPO Presents the Summer Music Festival for 2008 - July 28 through August 10

Well, it's Summer Music Festival time again - a two week long celebration of Classical music with great performers from around the country.

And this year we have another very exciting lineup of events.

• The celebration starts out on July 28th with free Luncheon Concerts every weekday at noon at various locations around Homer and the Kenai/Soldotna area.

• On Friday, August 1st, at 7:30pm there will be a Chamber Concert at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna featuring the Madison String Quartet and Friends

• Come join us at 6:00pm on Sunday, August 3rd, as the Rainbow Connection departs the Homer dock for a trip across the bay to Tutka Bay Lodge for Champagne, Chocolate and Chopin à la Tutka, a magical evening of champagne, scrumptious hors d'oevres and glorious chamber music provided by the Madison String Quartet in an open air setting. You don't want to miss this!

• The Gala Concert will take place at the Renée C. Henderson Auditorium in Kenai on Friday, August 8 at 7:30pm, and at the Mariner Theatre in Homer on Saturday, the 9th, also at 7:30 PM. The program will feature guest conductor Linn Weeda and French hornist Anthony Cecere

  The program includes:
  Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major featuring Anthony Cecere
  Susato: Renaissance Dances
  Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture and Fantasy
  Elgar: Wand of Youth
  Munger: Sinfonietta

Two full weeks of beautiful, uplifting music in what has to be one of the most beautiful settings in the world. Come join us!

KPO 2008 Grants Awarded

KPO is proud to announce our Grant recipients from the graduating class of 2008. Our recipents this year are Rosemary Houglum and Hayden Sterling. Rosemary plays clarinet and is graduating from SOHI. She will be pursuing a double major of Applied Music and Elementary Education. At press time she had not decided between Gonzaga and Pacific Lutheran University. Rosemary has played with KPO for 1 1/2 years. She has played with RCO for 2 years.

Hayden plays violin and clarinet and is graduating from KCHS. He will be pursuing either a Clarinet Performance degree or a Music Education degree at UAF. Hayden has played violin with KPO for 2 years. He also plays with RCO.

We wish both of these fine musicians the best of luck in their musical education!