Concerts In The Barn Gala Fundraiser with The Fulton Street Chamber Players
$100
- Dawn Posey, violin
- Brittany Boulding Breeden, violin
- Katie Liu (Seattle), viola
- Rachel Swerdlow, viola
- Walter Gray, cello
Antonín Dvořák — String Quintet No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 97, B. 180 "American"
The Fulton Gang is back at Concerts in the Barn! And this time, they're riding into town to help raise funds for our 2025 season!
Join us on Saturday, March 29, at 1pm in the newly heated milking shed to hear 2 gorgeous viola quintets by Mozart and Dvořák.
This is a fundraiser, so we're asking for money up front this time.
$100 will get you inside our warm milking shed with champagne and delectable nibbles on the house. Tickets are limited!
The Farm opens for visitors at 12pm. Music begins at 1pm.
Kid Friendly: Yes!
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!
About Concerts in the Barn (WA)
Concerts in the Barn seeks to enrich people's lives through affordable access to world-class chamber music & musicians in an informal setting that fosters conversation, community, and engagement.
The Farm opens for visitors at noon each concert day. Barn doors open at 1pm. Concerts begin at 2pm and have one intermission.
All concerts are free to the public. Prior reservations are required.
Sit on comfortable pews, a hay bale in the loft, or on your blanket on the lawn.
Seating in the barn is first-come, first serve. If you have a mobility issue, please call (360) 732-0732 before the day of the concert and a seat will be reserved for you.
CITB Helpline: (360) 732-4000
https://concertsinthebarn.org/About Fulton Street Chamber Players
The Fulton Street Chamber Players are an ensemble drawn from the best and most dedicated chamber musicians in the Seattle area, supplemented with fantastic colleagues from across the country. Founded in 2015 by Rachel Swerdlow and Walter Gray, Fulton Street performances have been enjoyed throughout the Northwest, in both eclectic venues and house concerts. The ensemble’s love of chamber music and their enjoyment of performing in intimate settings brings audiences to the historic roots of chamber music.
About Dawn Posey, violin
Dawn Posey is an active international chamber musician, teacher and performer. She has performed with the Boston Conservatory Honors Quartet, Festival A Tempo in Caracas, Venezuela, the Chamber Music Festival of Amman, Jordan, Blossom Music Festival, and Tanglewood Music Center. Additionally, she has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Washington, Missouri, Indiana, and England. She is a founding member of Kassia Ensemble, a mixed instrumentation chamber ensemble based in Pittsburgh made up entirely of female performers. Kassia Ensemble seeks to empower women through quality performance, collaboration, and outreach.
Dawn is a devotee of baroque performance practice, and a frequent guest artist with Chatham Baroque. She has toured with the ensemble to Ecuador and Los Angeles. Dawn was also a participant in the 2015 Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute.
Dawn received the Starling Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where her primary teacher was Dr. Won-Bin Yim. She has also studied with the late renowned string pedagogue, Miss Dorothy Delay, at Aspen Music Festival, Lynn Chang at the Boston Conservatory, Mrs. Almita Vamos in Chicago, and with concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine.
Dawn has been a member of the violin faculty at the Sherwood Conservatory, the Merit School of Music, the University of Evansville, St. Vincent College, and Slippery Rock University, and the Pittsburgh Music Academy. In Evansville, Dawn was the second violinist with the Eykamp String Quartet and Associate Concertmaster with the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. She has served as assistant concertmaster with both the Youngstown Symphony and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. She has also held the positions of associate principal second violin with the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, Principal Second Violin of the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra and principal second violin with Pittsburgh Ballet Theater Orchestra. Most recently, Dawn has been appointed Concertmaster with the Bellingham Symphony Orchestra and assistant concertmaster of the Northwest Sinfonietta.
http://www.poseyviolin.com/About Katie Liu (Seattle), viola
Katie Liu, viola, joined the Seattle Symphony in September of 2024 as its Associate Principal Viola. She started the violin at age 5 and permanently switched to the viola in her senior year at Princeton University, where she concentrated in Operations Research and Financial Engineering and minored in Computer Science and Musical Performance. She has had prior corporate working experience in asset management and fintech consulting and commenced her viola pursuits as winner of the Princeton University Concerto Competition; as a soloist, she has performed with the Princeton University Orchestra and Colburn Orchestra. Katie received her Master of Music degree at the Colburn School under the tutelage of Paul Coletti and Teng Li.
Katie plays on a viola made for her by Frédéric Chaudière in 2024.