QUILCENE — The Olympic Music Festival, the summer series of concerts on a farm in rural Jefferson County, will present five rising young artists, the Iglitzin Chamber Music Fellows, this Saturday and Sunday.
In performances at 2 p.m. both days, the fellows — violinist Jennifer Liu, violists Erin Kirby and DJ Cheek, cellist Alexander Hersh and pianist Rieko Tsuchida — will play with festival artistic director and pianist Julio Elizalde, violinists Andrea Segar and Itamar Zorman and cellist Matthew Zalkind.
The fellowship program is named for Alan Iglitzin, who founded the Olympic Music Festival in 1984.
He’s just retired and is succeeded by Elizalde, a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and New York City’s Juilliard School, where he earned a doctorate in musical arts in 2011.
On Saturday the gathering of musicians will offer music of Schumann, Bartok and Dvorak; Sunday brings a whole other program of Stravinsky, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
Tickets to either performance range from $14 to $32, with gates opening at 11 a.m. for picnicking and strolling on the Quilcene-area farm 18 miles south of Port Townsend.
The concerts take place inside a restored, century-old barn, whose doors open at 1 p.m.
Music lovers can choose to sit inside or outside on the grass, where the concert is broadcast.
For lots more information, visit www.OlympicMusicFestival.org or phone 360-732-4800.
