An all-Bach concert will be performed at Orcas Center on Dec. 6 at 7:30 p.m. and 7 at 2 p.m. featuring the Orcas Choral Society. Tickets are $15.

The two concerts will be the culmination of a week of collaborative activities involving the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, the Orcas Boy Choir and the Turtleback Brass ensemble.

Baritone Philip Cutlip, as musician-in-residence for the festival, will be a concert soloist. He will do coaching with the boy choir and work with local concert soloists Naomi Aldort, Ann Brewer, Pam Evans, Stan Miller and Ginni Keith.  Orcas soprano Sharon Abreu and tenor Wesley Rogers from Seattle complete the soloist line-up. The tenor and bass sections of the choir will also have the opportunity to work with Cutlip.  The following week he will be acting as OICMF musician-in-residence for the public school, preschools and community vocalists and performing in the Leaves of Gold concert Dec. 11 and 12.