Musical Plot Twists

Luke Fitzpatrick is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and artistic director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. As a soloist, he recently performed the US Premiere of Isidora Žebeljan’s Three Curious Loves with Seattle Philharmonic and Toru Takemitsu’s Nostalghia with Emerald City Chamber Orchestra. He has performed with the Harry Partch Ensemble as well as with Deltron 3030, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective and has appeared on recordings released by Ablaze and Centaur records. Luke received his training from UMKC (BM), CalArts (MFA) and the University of Washington (DMA) and is currently concertmaster of Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Festival Orchestra, Federal Way Symphony and Emerald City Chamber Orchestra. He is a founding member of the String Quartet Pure Flavor and is currently completing a cycle of the complete Beethoven String Quartets as requested by the honorable Count Hymanovski. As a composer, He received a 2023 CityArtists Grant from the City of Seattle to produce Nesting Dolls & Dreamscapes, a work that explores multiple microtonal realms colliding against one another amid a theatrical and improvisatory landscape and in April 2026 will premiere his violin concerto Nightfall with Port Townsend Symphony. His 2025 arrangement of The Gremlin Rag from the movie Gremlins performed by Seattle Festival Orchestra was met with great acclaim. Besides music related things, Luke is an avid dancer and enjoys biking, eating sushi and collecting shoes. He plays on a bow generously on loan from the Kevin Tao Foundation.

“Fierce, with graceful gestures and attention to detail.” – KlasikaPlus.cz

Dr. Yuchi Chou, born in Taiwan, enjoys an international career as a conductor and pianist, as well as being a passionate educator and performer. The 2025-2026 Season is her second season with Seattle Festival Orchestra and her third season with SYSO Junior Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Chou has been the winner of the 2021 International Conductors Competition and Workshop in Atlanta, finalist of the International Erno Lanyi Competition, Ansbacher Fellowship with Vienna Philharmonic at the Salzburg Festival, Conducting Fellow of Allentown (PA) Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, Conducting Fellow and at Peninsula Music Festival and San Francisco Shenson Fellowship. Dr. Chou has performed at Carnegie Hall, Chicago Symphony Hall, San Francisco Davies Symphony Hall, and Cleveland Severance Hall. Dr. Chou has been working with a number of orchestras in the Seattle area, including as assistant conductor to Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and guest conductor of West Seattle Community Orchestra and Philharmonia Northwest. Aside from the orchestral activities, Yuchi also serves as President of the Bellevue Federated Music Club. Past positions include Guest Conductor of Western Washington University, Assistant Conductor of Peninsula Music Festival, Associate/ Assistant Conductor of Community Women’s Orchestra (Oakland, CA); Coaching Conductor of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Yuchi concluded her academic journey at Northwestern University after San Francisco Conservatory and Oberlin Conservatory. As a Mercer Island resident, Yuchi loves watching her honeybees buzzing in her backyard beehive.

Seattle Festival Orchestra is a volunteer community orchestra that presents concerts to delight and engage a 21st century audience. With diverse programming, SFO creates space for its audience to experience the catharsis of the wide range of emotions available in orchestra music, to feel with our musicians the joy and sorrow, wonder and ecstasy of our art. In order to create an engrossing concert experience, SFO consistently breaks down barriers between performer and audience and seeks out opportunities for audience engagement. SFO believes strongly in universal access to the arts.

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