Walla Walla Symphony Guest Artist Soiree

The Walla Walla Symphony is delighted to announce a small, intimate concert featuring accomplished soprano, Monica Griffin Hunter, on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Walla Walla Community College Performing Arts Auditorium. Following the performance, enjoy light refreshments and the opportunity to meet Monica Griffin Hunter! This concert will be an enjoyable sneak peek of Griffin Hunter’s outstanding talent which will be featured later this season in the Symphony Concert, A Little Summer Night Music, on April 15, 2014 at 7:30pm at Cordiner Hall.

Griffin Hunter has received the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Michigan, the Master of Music degree in vocal performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and the Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Texas Wesleyan University, graduating magna cum laude. Additional study was completed at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. As a soprano soloist, Griffin Hunter has been featured in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Handel’s Messiah, J.S. Bach’s Magnificat, Rutter’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music and as Leonora in Fidelio. She has been the featured soloist for Poulenc’s Gloria, Tommasini’s Three Spanish Songs, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, and David Gillingham’s Lifesongs. Her operatic roles include the Mother in Hansel and Gretel, Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Madame Lidoine in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi.


Tickets for this performance are $20 for adults, $10 for students, and $5 for youth. Tickets for all concerts are available online at www.wwsymphony.org, by calling the Symphony office at 509-529-8020, at the Symphony office at 13-1/2 E. Main, Suite 201, or at the door on the evening of the concert.