UW Faculty Recital: Written/Unwritten

George Benjamin — Viola Viola
Johann Sebastian Bach — Selected works
Henri Vieuxtemps — Selected works

Violist Melia Watras explores written and improvised music with an all-star lineup of performers. Jazz innovators Cuong Vu and Ted Poor and Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim join Watras in blurring genre through improvisation. Seattle Symphony pianist Kimberly Russ collaborates with Watras on written works by J.S. Bach and Henri Vieuxtemps, and Lim takes to the viola to join Watras for a performance of George Benjamin’s Viola, Viola.