Anacortes Early Music presents The Classical String Quintet
$30 (students age 18 & under free); cash or check at the door only
- Elizabeth Blumenstock, violin
- Cecilia Archuleta, violin
- Lindsey Strand-Polyak, viola
- Laurel Wells, viola
- Page Smith, cello
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Quintet in C major, K. 515
Acclaimed violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster of the renowned Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco), heads up a string quintet of rich, clear period instruments with Cecilia Archuleta, Lindsey Strand-Polyak, Laurel Wells, and Page Smith performing beloved works in the Classical style, including Haydn's spirited Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 1; and Mozart's highly expressive Quintet in G minor, K. 515.
About Anacortes Early Music Concert Series
The Anacortes Early Music Concert Series has brought historically informed performances featuring world-renowned musicians and rising stars to Anacortes for over a decade. Historically informed performance (period performance) is an approach in Western music which adheres to the knowledge, as it is currently known, of the instruments and performance practice of the period in which the music was conceived. Access to examples of earlier musical instruments and historical treatises are the basis on which period performance is formed. Instruments corresponding to the period of the music being performed are used, as well as technique and aesthetics of the period. Anacortes Early Music is a project of the Anacortes Arts Foundation.
https://www.anacortesartsfoundation.org/events.htmlAbout Lindsey Strand-Polyak, viola
Lindsey Strand-Polyak divides her time between viola and violin and homes in Los Angeles and on Whidbey Island. Director of the San Francisco Early Music Society's Summer Baroque Workshop, she appears with Baroque Music Montana, Bach Collegium San Diego, Musica Angelica, Sinfonia Spirituosa, Bitterroot Baroque, Baroque Festival Corona del Mar, the Oregon Bach Festival, Byron Schenkman & Friends, the Salish Sea Early Music Festival and as principal violist with Seattle Baroque Orchestra. She also serves on the boards of Early Music Seattle as the SBO liaison and Pacific Northwest Viols, and holds a PhD/MM in musicology and violin performance from UCLA.
https://www.strandpolyak.com/