Maria Scherer Wilson

Flutist Sarah Pyle curates an evening of environmental music in which the audience and musicians collectively explore how we are shaped by and shape the natural world. Meadows (2025), a growable graphic score led by Flicker Duo (Sarah Pyle, flute & Janna Webbon, violin), encourages at-home ecosystem restoration, while Caroline Miller’s territories::refrains invites human participation in recreating ephemeral signals from the animal world.

Miller’s world-premiere commission for SMO explores our rapidly-changing environment due to urban tree canopy loss and the resulting man-made effects of urban heat islands. Hilda Paredes’ Chaczidzib for solo piccolo probes themes of displacement and colonialism as sung by the Mayan red-chested bird.

George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Sarah Pyle, flute - Cristina Valdes, piano & Maria Scherer Wilson, cello) hearkens back to a time of nature without humans and celebrates our region’s Orca Recovery Day. An event for dreamers and doers alike, we invite you to come, listen, and “stay awhile.”

PROGRAM: SARAH PYLE: Meadows – World Premiere CAROLINE LOUISE MILLER: SMO Commission – World Premiere CAROLINE LOUISE MILLER: territories::refrains (2020) HILDA PAREDES: Chaczidzib (1992) GEORGE CRUMB: Vox Balanae (1971)

SMO is partnering with Pierce County Conservation District for events surrounding our region’s Orca Recovery Day.

Volunteer at any of several locations across the region to help restore salmon habitat, crucial for the health of our local Southern Resident pod, and you will receive a code for FREE admission to this concert. Help to plant trees and remove invasive species at any point between 9am–noon, then come out that night for music that engages and challenges your senses. Get more information and sign up https://betterground.org/in-your-community/events/ord/partner-events-throughout-the-region/#skagit