Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: HALO collaboration
Published 1:30 am Thursday, August 10, 2023
Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and HALO are collaborating to project the original artworks of Orcas Island fine artists.
HALO (Hub for Arts & Literature on Orcas) is a new volunteer-driven private-public partnership whose mission is to raise the visibility of the most thought-provoking contemporary fine art & literature on Orcas Island. More coming soon at www.wearehalo.org.
The works are projected onstage (close up) at Orcas Center to accompany the Festival’s world-class musicians playing some of the most evocative chamber music on the planet. The paintings are carefully and thoughtfully curated by HALO curators and OICMF Founder and Artistic Director Aloysia Friedmann to perfectly complement the musical experience.
This year, Martha Farish, who was the collaboration’s debut artist at last year’s Chamber Music Festival, presented her signature colorful abstract paintings, which were projected at the Orcas~trations: Voice of the Whale concert on Aug. 8 and 9, to music composed by Clémence de Grandval, Alyssa Morris, Ennio Morricone and John Corigliano. In addition, stunning new works by Susan Singleton, from her Ziggurat and Subtext series, will be projected during the Darkness to Light concerts on Aug. 11 and 12, to accompany works by composers including Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and John Wineglass. The collaboration will end with a mesmerizing photograph by Guggenheim Fellow artist and islander, Michael Lundgren, projected to accompany Henning Kraggerud’s Romantartica during the Romantarctica concert on Aug. 18 and 19.
Concert tickets are available at www.orcascenter.org.
