The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience

Name: The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience
Start: 2026-03-14T19:30:00-07:00
Location: 123 N Wenatchee Ave, Wenatchee, WA, United States, Washington 98801

Schedule

Sat, 14 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

123 N Wenatchee Ave, Wenatchee, WA, United States, Washington 98801 | Wenatchee, WA

Fuses classical music with hip-hop, creating a groundbreaking, high-energy sound that redefines both genres.

In partnership with Icicle Creek Center for the Arts

The Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience is part concert, dance party, and club night featuring original music that samples from classical and hip-hop—all presented in an underground setting like the New York scene that birthed hip-hop. Their music uniquely challenges the MCs and classical musicians, pushing the boundaries of both hip-hop and concert music, creating something completely new. The program includes seminal works of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven, deconstructed and reimagined with funky rhythms and rapid-fire rhymes.

Tickets: $30 | $40 | $50 (Student & Senior Discounts Available)

Sponsored by:
Numerica Credit Union
Chuck & DeVona Ferrel
Chelan-Douglas School Retirees' Assoc.
Colleen Frei & Arius Elvikis
Apple Valley Honda
Confluence Health
Dave & Sandy Gellatly
For sponsorship inquiries, contact [email protected].

Led by composer/pianist JooWan Kim, the Hip-Hop Orchestra Experience creates Metamusic by sampling principles of Hip-Hop and Classical. Executed with resident MCs, a lyric soprano, woodwinds, French horns, strings, piano, and drums, the music is rigorous, nuanced, accessible, and free from the dogmas of Western European concert music aesthetic. The result is seamless tête-à-tête with "textures swimming through the sound...like the world's fastest ping-pong game" (Pitchfork) and is considered the"cutting edge of hip-hop"