A Journey through Time and Space
Saturday, May 10, 2025 7:00 pm
Federal Way Performing Arts & Events Center
2024 – 2025 EVENTS
Symphony at Light Speed--300 Years of Music in an Afternoon
4:30 PM
To kick-off this cosmically-inspired season, we will celebrate exactly 300 years of music in a single afternoon: From J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto 4, written in 1711, to Isidora Zebeljan’s “Seliste” (Deserted Village) written in 2011. Works by Edvard Grieg and Gerald Finzi round out the program.
A Community Christmas
2:30 pm
Join us on for a celebration of community and the holidays with a concert that features traditional songs and carols with a French flair. Emerging Artist Eden Pawlos from the Key to Change violin studio will join us for Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Violin in A minor and Soprano Stacey Mastrian will once again lend her spectacular voice to a collection of beloved holiday favorites.
Big Band Concert I--Score One for the Bass
Saturday, January 25, 2025
7:00 pm
Todd Zimberg and Lonnie Mardis lead the FWS Big Band in a concert of standards, swing, and jazz. Featured soloist will be Perry Thoorsell on bass.
Lights . . . Camera . . . Music!
Sunday, March 9, 2025
4:30 PM
As a special event for season 42, we will return to the cinematic experience of a century ago, where silent screen classics were accompanied by a live instrumental ensemble. Federal Way Symphony musicians will accompany a collection of silent movies from the 1920s in this lovingly-curated concert.
Lose Yourself in Music--Symphony, Serenade, Divertimento
Sunday, April 13, 2025
4:30 pm
The Federal Way Symphony’s dazzling pianist, Mayumi Tayake is featured in Bohuslav Martinů’s compelling and delightful Divertimento for Piano Left-Hand. The concert will also include Symphony No. 4 in D (K. 19), written by nine-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Tchaikovsky’s beloved Serenade for Strings.
Big Band Concert II--A Journey through Time and Space
Saturday, May 10, 2025
7:00 pm
A second concert by the FWS Big Band will close out season 42’s celebration of life, the universe and everything!
Support the Symphony
Established in 1983, the Federal Way Symphony has provided our community with high-quality, professional music for 40 years.
Under the direction of Adam Stern, our paid, professional symphony orchestra presents traditional classical concerts as well as special concerts and events featuring jazz, pops, blues, choral, and holiday music. Our performance home is the new Federal Way Performing Arts & Events Center, a state-of-the-art venue described as second only to Benaroya Hall in Seattle in acoustic fidelity in the Puget Sound Region.
Listen to us Play
World Premiere
Gail Kuik Nocturne
Reorchestrated for strings and harp
by Music Director Adam Stern