Summer Festival
July, 2026 | Seattle, Washington
The Unbound Symphony’s Summer Festival is a three-day summer gathering of approximately fifty professional musicians from the pacific northwest. Our goal is to celebrate and empower women and female-identifying musicians and use music as a way to express ourselves artistically and uplift the community.
Participants rehearse orchestral repertoire, take part in wellness and reflection sessions, engage in community service, and conclude with a public, family-friendly performance.
About the festival
Our values
❋ Connection and community among musicians
❋ Community engagement and service
❋ Mental health and wellbeing
❋ Culminating public performance
Festival Repertoire
Unbound Symphony festival will feature Dr. Sarah Bassingthwaighte’s Concerto for Double Bass. The orchestra will work closely with Sarah on this composition from her award-winning album Orchestrating the Wild.
Meet our Double Bass Soloist, Rebecca Lawrence
Rebecca Lawrence grew up in Seattle, and following studies in Los Angeles, Paris, and Frankfurt, moved to Berlin in 2025. Her work with the double bass draws on more than four centuries of musical practice, bringing together historical awareness, contemporary experimentation, and a deep curiosity for sound.
Influenced by interests ranging from social movements and feminism to anthropology, ritual, and natural systems, she collaborates closely with leading composers in today’s European music scene. At the same time, a search for simple musical truth and harmony led her to study early music, which evolved into endless experimentation with the sonic possibilities of early instruments in contemporary contexts.
Rebecca is a member of the Berlin based Ensemble Kollektiv, and plays often as as a guest with a wide range of ensembles and orchestras, including Ensemble Modern, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, the Basel Sinfonietta, the Folkwang Kammerorchestra, Klangforum Wien, Deutsche Kammerorchester Bremen, and others.
In 2026, she’ll record her first solo album with producer Weston Olencki, supported by a grant from the Deutscher Orchesterstiftung, exploring the possibilities of contemporary improvised pieces and arrangements on historical instruments.
Photo by Jörg Baumann