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Our Organization The Siletz Bay Music Festival is dedicated to providing cultural enrichment through musical performances and education by bringing internationally renowned musicians to perform at the Oregon coast. For the past two summers, the Festival has hosted music performances under the direction of Yaacov Bergman, Artistic Director and Conductor of the Festival. Maestro Bergman is also Music Director of the Walla Walla Symphony, Music Director of the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and former Music Director of the Colorado Springs Symphony, the New York Heritage Chamber Orchestra, and the 92nd St. Y Symphonic Workshop Orchestra in New York City. He has conducted in Osaka and Kobe, Japan; Vienna, Austria; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Buffalo, San Diego, West Virginia, Redlands, and Brooklyn, in the United States, and in Israel and Denmark.

Outreach The Festival reaches out to children through master classes, children’s concerts, lectures, and in-school demonstrations. All Festival rehearsals are open to the public, allowing more interaction between music students, professional musicians, and the general public. In past seasons, the Festival has sponsored special concerts for children, introducing classical music to young audiences by pairing the music with visual accompaniments and with storytelling narrations. With reduced education budgets and cuts in music classes, the exposure to and instruction by the world-class musicians of the Festival is a rare and welcome educational opportunity for area students.

Yaacov Bergman, Artistic Director Welcome to Siletz Bay Music Festival. We are delighted to share with you the high quality of musicianship the Festival exemplifies. As Artistic Director and Conductor, my goal is to create programming that will excite and educate as well as entertain. I look forward to seeing you at our performances in this wonderful community.

The Board of Directors and Staff Marilyn Lytle Salci, Chair, is an avid music fan. Marilyn has a varied career in Community Relations and Human Resources in California and Oregon. Marilyn holds an MS in Human Resources from the University of Utah and is currently working as a Development Specialist with the North Lincoln Hospital Foundation. Marilyn’s human resources experience and organizational skills are essential to our work.

Martha Payne, Vice Chair, is a former musician, now an attorney, with a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University and a Juris Doctorate from Lewis and Clark. She brings decades of legal and business experience and a love of music.

Barbara Ogburn, Treasurer and Acting Secretary, spent twenty-five years in banking and finance and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Portland State University.

Rudy Salci holds a degree in Electrical Engineering. He oversees our social media, maintains our website and produces videos and photographs for marketing and website development.

Rick Swanson is retired after 32 years with Freightliner. Rick’s management skills are put to work when he organizes the logistics for up to fifty Festival musicians and organizes volunteers

Christine Tell earned her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon and spent thirty years in public education at all levels. Christine’s expertise in grant writing and educational outreach makes her a very valuable member of our group.

Steven P. Tubbs holds a degree from the Portland State University and is the CEO and founder of an international agricultural trading company headquartered in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Steve uses his considerable business acumen to attract new businesses to the festival.

Rocky Blumhagen, Advisor to the Board, had a successful career in radio broadcasting in Portland. He is a first-rate fundraiser and a true talent (Rocky often performs in our fundraiser).

Sue Parks-Hilden, Executive Director, is a graduate of University of Oregon with a Masters from Lewis and Clark, Sue brings her considerable experience and skill at management, organization, and marketing from the parallel area of theater.

Featured Artists

HAROUTUNE BEDELIAN, Violin Mr. Bedelian enjoys a varied career as a performer, teacher, and lecturer worldwide. At age 15 he won a scholarship to attend London’s Royal Academy of Music (where he later taught), and at 20 he won 1st prize in the BBC Violin Competition. He is currently Professor of Violin at the University of California, Irvine.

GERALD ROBBINS, Piano Mr. Robbins won the Van Cliburn Award early in his career and has gone on to earn international acclaim as a renowned soloist. He is co-founder of the Lyric Piano Quartet and is a member of the chamber music faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

DICK HYMAN, Jazz Pianist and Composer |  Featured Guest Musician Throughout a busy musical career that got underway in the early 1950s, Dick Hyman has functioned as pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in film scores, orchestral compositions, and concert appearances with well over 100 albums recorded under his own name. Solo recordings include the music of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Duke Ellington. Mr. Hyman was music director for Arthur Godfrey and orchestrator of the hit Broadway musical Sugar Babies. He has served as composer / arranger / conductor / pianist for many Woody Allen films as well as the films Moonstruck, Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime, The Lemon Sisters, and Alan and Naomi. Dick Hyman’s Century of Jazz Piano, an encyclopedic series of solo performances, has been released on Arbors Records. Other new recordings include Thinking About Bix and E Pluribus Duo with Ken Peplowski.

NICOLE GREENIDGE JOSEPH, Soprano Ms. Joseph has appeared across the country as an opera and concert soloist and is a featured member of the Austin-based choral group Conspirare. She was the 2nd Place Winner in the National Bel Canto Vocal Foundation Competition in 2009 and a Michigan District Winner in the 2010 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

MEI-TING SUN, Piano Critically acclaimed pianist Mei-Ting Sun began his life on the concert stage at the prestigious Spring of Shanghai Festival in 1986 when he was 5 years old. At 9 he left Shanghai for New York and has since received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Mannes College of Music and his Doctorate from the Juilliard School. He has won numerous piano competitions and has been heard in recital across the globe.

MIRIAM ENGLISH WARD, Viola Dr. Ward is a skilled instructor of viola, violin and chamber music, with degrees from Manhattan School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins, and University of Wisconsin, Madison. She has performed with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, and Bravo! Vancouver Chamber Festival. She is director of Rose City Music Academy which is dedicated to providing a vibrant musical community for students and teachers in the Portland area.

LORNA GRIFFITT, Piano Lorna Griffitt, D.M., began performing professionally at 16 as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra. She received her Doctorate with Distinction in Piano Performance from Indiana University and enjoys an active career as soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue here in the US and in South America, Europe, and the Middle East.