Season Subscriptions Available Immediately
Individual Tickets Go on Sale March 17
Discounts Available for WWU Faculty, Staff, Students, Young Adults
Tickets are now on sale for the Bellingham Festival of Music’s 2025 season. Artistic Director Marcelo Lehninger leads his second season, June 29—July 20, with musical programs linked by a dazzling Round the World theme.
Season subscriptions are now available and patrons who have favorite seat locations can reclaim them this year if ordered by April 2. To purchase, call the Box Office at 360-650-6146.
Individual tickets will go on sale March 17. They can be ordered through the Festival website www.bellinghamfestival.org/tickets.
New WWU Box Office Information
For patrons wishing to purchase tickets in person at the Box Office, please note the following change: Daytime Box Office Hours will now be at Old Main 110, which is the Western Card Office space.
Box Office at Old Main will be open Monday-Wednesday from 10-3 and Thursday-Friday from 10-1. They will only be able to accept bank card payments at that location.
The PAC Box Office will no longer be available for patrons to obtain event tickets during daytime hours. The PAC Box Office will be open for events only.
For complete information on the 2025 season, visit: www.bellinghamfestival.org.
ABOUT THE BELLINGHAM FESTIVAL OF MUSIC
Nestled between snow-capped mountains and island-studded bay, the spectacular natural beauty of Bellingham, Washington provides the ideal backdrop for the celebration of classical music. Since 1993, the Bellingham Festival of Music has enlivened the Pacific Northwest’s summer season with outstanding live orchestral performances and chamber music recitals.
The acclaimed festival orchestra is composed of some of the finest musicians in the United States and Canada, many of them principals in such illustrious orchestras as the Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and Atlanta Symphonies. They are joined by eminent soloists who have included Garrick Ohlsson, Stefan Jackiw, Joshua Roman, Jeremy Denk, Jamie Barton, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Pablo Sáinz Villegas, Blake Pouliot, Michele Cann, and Conrad Tao. In addition, the festival boasts a resident chamber ensemble, currently the Calidore String Quartet, which presents recitals as well as participating in community educational and engagement activities.
In 2024, Artistic Director Marcelo Lehninger, led his first full season to sold-out audiences and introduced a new Conductors’ Institute to help groom gifted young conductors for important careers. He succeeds BFM co-founder and Conductor Laureate Michael Palmer.
Of equal importance to its summer season are the Festival’s year-round outreach initiatives which extend the beauty of classical music to youngsters in the region. Among these programs are masterclasses, and both the Play it Forward Chamber Music Residency and Beethoven in the Schools project which bring music to K-12 classrooms throughout Whatcom County. In 2014-15, BFM also helped kick start the return of the Fifth Grade Strings program in the public schools. It continues its support with the purchase and maintenance of string instruments that allows all students to participate.
The Festival’s artistic excellence has been recognized widely throughout the country, and its concerts and recordings have been broadcast nationally, by NPR and by American Public Media on its Performance Today show. Among these recordings are the three-CD set of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson recorded live at the Festival on the Natural Soundfields label.
The recipient of grants from several entities, the Festival has received National Endowment for the Arts grants frequently since 2009—a resounding endorsement of the quality of its performances and the contribution it makes to regional and national cultural life.
