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Frequency is a new Seattle-based chamber ensemble, joining together distinguished artists Michael Jinsoo Lim (violinist and artistic director), Melia Watras (violist) and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir (cellist).
Program:
Frances White: The old rose reader for violin and electronic sound
Daniel Bjarnason: Bow to String for cello and electronics
Richard Einhorn: Maxwell's Demon for 5 string electric violin
Frances White: As night falls (2012) for violin, viola, narrator, and electronic sound
About the artists:
Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim has been praised by Gramophone for playing with delicious abandon and described as bewitching by the Seattle Times. He is concertmaster and solo violinist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra (surely the best ballet band in AmericaNew York Times) and is in-demand as a chamber musician and performer of new music. Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a conspicuously accomplished champion of contemporary music for his work as co-founder of the renowned Corigliano Quartet.
Hailed by Gramophone as an artist of commanding and poetic personality and described as staggeringly virtuosic by The Strad, violist Melia Watras has distinguished herself as one of her instruments leading voices. She is currently Professor of Viola and chair of Strings at the University of Washington School of Music, where she holds the Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professorship and was previously awarded the Donald E. Petersen Endowed Fellowship and the Royalty Research Fund.
Riveting (New York Times) cellist, Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Toronto and Iceland Symphonies, and her recital and chamber music performances have taken her across the US, Europe and Asia. As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode and members of the Emerson, Guarneri and Cavani Quartets, and has performed at numerous chamber music festivals, including Prussia Cove and Marlboro (with whom she has toured). She is also cellist of the Manhattan Piano Trio, and founding member and co-Artistic Director of the acclaimed New York-based chamber ensemble Decoda.
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LocationPONCHO Concert Hall (Kerry Hall, Cornish College of the Arts) (View)
710 E. Roy Street
Seattle, WA 98102
United States
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| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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