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An Evening of Chamber Music for Strings
Island cellists, Rowena Hammill and Doug Davis return to Blue Heron Art Center in November with an Evening of Chamber Music for Strings, the second concert in VAAs new Chamber Music Series. Joined by Seattle-based Roxanna Patterson on viola and Ron Patterson on violin, Hammill and Davis have also elicited local violinist and music director for Vashon-Maury Chamber Orchestra, Karin Choo.
The classical and romantic program will include works by composers Mozart, Schubert, Dohnanyi and Arensky. Rowena has organized the progressive program to begin with a Mozart violin/viola duo, then a Dohnanyi trio to incorporate cello, next Arnenskys quartet adds a second cello and finally the well-known String Quintet in C major, Schuberts final instrumental work will include all musicians.
Doug Davis played chamber music with Ron Patterson when they teenagers in Los Angeles. The two had some of the same mentors in a vibrant classical music scene due to an incredible influx of talented emigrants who fled Eastern Europe during the 1940s and 50s. The friends rediscovered each other in recent years after both relocated to the Northwest. Hammill and Davis have worked with the Pattersons on several musical projects, including Chamber Music San Juans, a program Rowena hopes to ultimately emulate on Vashon.
Violinist Ronald Patterson, Professor of Violin at University of Washingtons School of Music since 1999, is the violinist in Duo Patterson and Concertmaster of New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra. He was a student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky.
Since age 11, Patterson has concertized extensively in the United States and Europe, performing 45 works (including six world premieres) in more than 150 solo performances. Acclaimed for his "skill, authority and imagination" by the New York Times, he has performed with the Prague Chamber Orchestra in Prague, the MDR in the Leipzig Gewandhaas, UNESCO in Paris, REI Milan, Dusseldorf Symphony, NY Cosmopolitan Orchestra, Denver Symphony, Austin Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Boston "Pops," Houston Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Duisberg Symphony and Monte Carlo Philharmonic in Monaco, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.
Violist Roxanna Patterson began her professional career at age 16 as a member of the Fort Worth Symphony and the Forth Worth Opera Orchestras. She later attended the Shepherd School of Music (Rice University) and played in the Houston Symphony, Houston Opera Orchestra and served as Concertmaster for Houston Ballet Orchestra. Her teachers included Ron Patterson, Eudice Shapiro, Wayne Crouse and Karen Tuttle.
In 1979 she moved to Monte Carlo with her husband, Concertmaster Ron Patterson. There she changed from violin to viola and the couple formed the unique violin/viola ensemble Duo Patterson. A chamber music enthusiast, Roxanna has performed extensively, recorded for Ante Aeternum Records (with a new 2004 Duo Patterson release of Czech Mates), CRI, Centaur and VOX labels, and appeared on European and American television. In 1984 she received the first Special Award from the Princess Grace Foundation and was recently decorated by Prince Rainier of Monaco with Chevalier de lOrdre du Merite Culturel. Principal Viola of the New Hampshire Music Festival and viola coach for Seattle Youth Symphony, she teaches privately in Seattle and is active in the film and computer game recording industry. Were really enjoying playing with Doug and Rowena, says Roxanna. Were from the same planet, she laughs.
Karin Choo holds Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the New England Conservatory, where she studied violin performance with James Buswell, and Tufts University, where she studied economics. She teaches and performs as a free-lance artist throughout the greater Seattle area. Previously she worked as Executive Director of The American String Project and Operations Manager and Assistant Artistic Administrator for Seattle Symphony.
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LocationBlue Heron Art Center
19704 Vashon Hwy. SW
Vashon Island, WA 98070
United States
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