PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Tigran Arakelyan, will present a chamber music concert at 6 p.m. Friday.
The free concert will be at Finnriver Cidery, 124 Center Road, in Chimacum.
It will feature American guitarist Michael Nicolella, who has performed extensively throughout North America, Europe and Japan as solo recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with orchestra.
Nicolella has collaborated with Gil Shaham, Bernadette Peters and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Seattle Guitar Trio, and is a frequent guest with the Seattle Symphony, according to a press release.
He is currently on the faculty of the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle.
Additionally, the orchestra will present the U.S. and North American premier of Alma de Tango for String Orchestra, by Argentinian composer Adriana Isabel Figueroa Mañas.
Figueroa Mañas is one of Argentina’s most celebrated female composers, organizers said.
Her symphonic works have premiered throughout South America, Europe, China, Canada and the United States.
She is an associate member of the Latin Grammy Academy and has served as media composer and advisor to Film Andes.
Nicolella will join the orchestra in Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for guitar and String Orchestra.
The PTSO String Orchestra also will play Edvard Grieg’s Two Elegiac Melodies and Danzas de Panama by William Grant Still.
Elijah Hill, Young Artist Competition conductor’s prize winner, will perform Liebestraum No. 3 by Franz Liszt.
Rounding out the program will be the PTSO horn quartet and ensemble.
