Siletz Bay Music Festival presents
A 10-day musical adventure, August 14-24
Lincoln City, OR June 17, 2025–Presenting 11 concerts at five venues in Lincoln City and Newport, this summer’s Siletz Bay Music Festival will offer an adventurous program of chamber, jazz and orchestral music performed by 58 artists who travel to the Oregon coast from locations around the world.
Featuring a mix of seldom-performed masterworks and audience-pleasing favorites, the festival begins August 14 and runs through August 24.
Performances will be held at the Lincoln City Cultural Center, the Lincoln City Congregational Church, Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center, Lincoln City’s Regatta Park Bandshell and Chinook Winds Casino Resort. Tickets are now on sale at SiletzBayMusic.org
This year’s Festival will feature new faces alongside many of the more familiar artists who have helped the series evolve over 13 seasons into the Central Oregon Coast’s premier cultural event. Under the leadership of artistic director Mei-Ting Sun, the Festival has engaged the internationally acclaimed conductor Johann Stuckenbruck to lead the orchestra. New work by Portland-based composer and cellist Nancy Ives, a musical tribute to Native American jazz legend Jim Pepper (Kaw, Creek), and performances of three all-time favorites from the repertoire of the mid-20th Century– Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” (featuring Mei-Ting Sun on piano) and Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez,” featuring the festival debut of Bulgarian-born guitar virtuoso Georgi Dimitrov-JoJo—will be among the festival highlights.
The chamber music series will include several nods to the 150th anniversary of the birth of French composer Maurice Ravel, and in addition to familiar pieces from the classical canon, will include compositions by Hungary’s Ernest Von Dohanyi, Italy’s Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Austria’s Alban Berg and American composer William Kroll.
Artists performing in the festi
