Join the Skyros Quartet for a week of chamber music for students ages 13-24. Applications and more information available at: http://www.chambermusicmadness.org/tuned-in-summer-student-festival/
The Skyros Quartet is joined by friends in performance of two of the most epic works in the string chamber ensemble literature: Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Mendelssohn's String Octet in E-flat Major.
Featuring guest performers:
Brittany Boulding Breeden, violin
Brandon Vance, violin
Leslie Johnson, viola
Nathan Whittaker, cello
The Skyros Quartet performs as part of a May residency at Seattle University, where they will work with chamber music students to develop teaching-artist presentations.
Program:
Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575
Beach: Quartet for Strings, Op. 89
Vasks: String Quartet No. 3
General admission: $12
The Baltic Arts Council Northwest was recently established to support and promote arts and culture from the three Baltic countries in celebrating the 100th anniversary of independence of the three Baltic nations, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The rich musical world of the Baltics has emerged with a global presence that belies the small size of the three countries of the region. In this program, the first of a number of events celebrating the anniversary, we will feature music by 20th/21st century composers Pēteris Vasks (Latvia), René Eespere and Ester Magi (Estonia), and Onutė Narbutaitė and Mikalojus K. Čiurlionis (Lithuania).
Performers participating in the concert are the Skyros String Quartet, guitarist Michael Nicolella, flutist Paul Taub, and duo pianists Dainius and Asta Vaicekonis.
February 23, 2018 | 8:00 PM | $10 - $25 sliding scale at the door
Every Wednesday during the school year, UBC Music hosts a noon hour concert in the beautiful Roy Barnett Recital Hall on the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus.
Featuring the Canadian Premiere of Górecki's Elegy for Cello and String Quartet
with Eric Wilson, cello
reSound, a Northwest Chamber Ensemble presents "Reformed & Reforming, celebrating the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation."
This free concert will also feature Skyros String Quartet, Kyle Erickson, Trumpeter, and special musical guests Steve Thoreson, tenor, and Andrew Marshall, sound healer. This exciting event will feature the world premiere of "From Death to New Life: A Requiem Mass for the Church," by Michael Austin Miller and Stephen Marshall-Ward.
University Christian Church
4731 15th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105
Amy Beach – Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 “Gaelic” (1896)
Johannes Brahms – Symphony No. 2, op. 73 in D major (1877)
Tickets: $20 general, $10 seniors (65+) and students (18+),
FREE for students under 18
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About the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra
The Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (SCO) is a diverse, multigenerational performing arts organization representative of the greater Seattle community. SCO is devoted to bringing classical and new symphonic works into local schools and communities.
SCO musicians include students, community members, and professionals who work together to create a unique and collaborative musical experience that includes a creative mix of traditional orchestral music, seldom-performed classical works, works by female and Northwest composers, and new symphonic music.
Members of the Skyros Quartet serve as principals, coaches, and mentors in their respective sections.
The Skyros Quartet performs in UCM's Hart Recital in Warrensburg, Missouri.
Program:
Mozart: String Quartet in D Major, K. 575
Shai Cohen: Circles of Time
with Alan Wenger, trumpet
Beach: Quartet for Strings (in One Movement), Op. 89
Schubert: String Quintet in C major, D. 956
with Mike Bersin, cello
An annual tradition in the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, Skyros Quartet will again coach at the week-long chamber music festival. Hosted by Tucson Junior Strings, the camp is open to students from age thirteen through college. More information available at: http://www.tucsonjuniorstrings.org/cmim.html
Tuned In! Summer Student Festival is an intensive and comprehensive musical learning experience for middle school, high school, and college students. The workshop takes place over 5 and ½ days, with a performance for friends and family on the last day The Festival environment is fun, nurturing, and noncompetitive, and includes enrichment activities, such as theatre arts and relaxation exercises, as part of the daily schedule. Students can expect to improve their practicing skills and musicianship, and become more expressive players through the exploration of chamber music.
Don't miss the anxiously-awaited return of the critically-acclaimed production, Approaching Ecstasy. This production features choreography from artistic director, Olivier Wevers in collaboration with Eric Banks and The Esoterics. It incorporates 40 singers, 5 instrumentalists, and 7 dancers and is inspired by the poems of Constantine Cavafy, who lived as a closeted gay man in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth-century. When it premiered in 2012, the Seattle Times said its visually sumptuous and City Arts Magazine found the combination of poetry, dance, and music a bold and successful choice.
"In the hands of artistic director and choreographer Olivier Wevers, Whim W'Him has evolved into one of Seattle's most successful and renowned companies since its establishment in 2009." Seattle Dances
June 2, 3, 9, and 10, 2017 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Tickets: Starting at $25 Advance | $30 Day of | $15 Student Rush
Don't miss the anxiously-awaited return of the critically-acclaimed production, Approaching Ecstasy. This production features choreography from artistic director, Olivier Wevers in collaboration with Eric Banks and The Esoterics. It incorporates 40 singers, 5 instrumentalists, and 7 dancers and is inspired by the poems of Constantine Cavafy, who lived as a closeted gay man in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth-century. When it premiered in 2012, the Seattle Times said its visually sumptuous and City Arts Magazine found the combination of poetry, dance, and music a bold and successful choice.
"In the hands of artistic director and choreographer Olivier Wevers, Whim W'Him has evolved into one of Seattle's most successful and renowned companies since its establishment in 2009." Seattle Dances
June 2, 3, 9, and 10, 2017 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Tickets: Starting at $25 Advance | $30 Day of | $15 Student Rush
Don't miss the anxiously-awaited return of the critically-acclaimed production, Approaching Ecstasy. This production features choreography from artistic director, Olivier Wevers in collaboration with Eric Banks and The Esoterics. It incorporates 40 singers, 5 instrumentalists, and 7 dancers and is inspired by the poems of Constantine Cavafy, who lived as a closeted gay man in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth-century. When it premiered in 2012, the Seattle Times said its visually sumptuous and City Arts Magazine found the combination of poetry, dance, and music a bold and successful choice.
"In the hands of artistic director and choreographer Olivier Wevers, Whim W'Him has evolved into one of Seattle's most successful and renowned companies since its establishment in 2009." Seattle Dances
June 2, 3, 9, and 10, 2017 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Tickets: Starting at $25 Advance | $30 Day of | $15 Student Rush
Don't miss the anxiously-awaited return of the critically-acclaimed production, Approaching Ecstasy. This production features choreography from artistic director, Olivier Wevers in collaboration with Eric Banks and The Esoterics. It incorporates 40 singers, 5 instrumentalists, and 7 dancers and is inspired by the poems of Constantine Cavafy, who lived as a closeted gay man in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth-century. When it premiered in 2012, the Seattle Times said its visually sumptuous and City Arts Magazine found the combination of poetry, dance, and music a bold and successful choice.
"In the hands of artistic director and choreographer Olivier Wevers, Whim W'Him has evolved into one of Seattle's most successful and renowned companies since its establishment in 2009." Seattle Dances
June 2, 3, 9, and 10, 2017 at the Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Tickets: Starting at $25 Advance | $30 Day of | $15 Student Rush
Skyros Quartet performs on a showcase of Northwest classical music, presented by KING FM 98.1 Seattle's classical music radio station.
