UMATILLA — Inland Northwest Musicians is presenting its first Willow Creek Symphony concert of the season on Saturday, Nov. 16, 4 p.m. in the Umatilla High School cafeteria.

Willow Creek Symphony is an Inland Northwest Musicians preparatory orchestra that provides a chance for less experienced musicians of all ages to advance skills.

Adults and students learn together, and sometimes several generations in one family are playing at the same time.

Willow Creek Symphony will be presenting pieces from Mozart and Bartók, along with others.

These students have been working on these pieces for many weeks in order to bring a concert to the community of Umatilla.

Inland Northwest Musicians is led by Music Director and Conductor R. Lee Friese and Associate Conductor Phillip Simpson.

This concert is presented free of charge with donations accepted at the door.

This season is sponsored by private donors, corporations and grants.

Corporate sponsors include Amazon Web Services, Blue Mountain Community Foundation, James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Hermiston, Morrow County Cultural Coalition, Oregon Arts Commission, Pacific Power Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, Umatilla County Cultural Coalition, and the Herbert A. Templeton Foundation.

About

Inland Northwest Musicians was founded in 1999 by a group of instrumentalists and vocalists interested in forming a classical music organization that reflected certain core values.

The ensembles have performed 500 concerts in 50 different communities in Northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington.

To learn more, visit inlandnorthwestmusicians.com.