Musique du Jour Presents! – Masterpiece!
$30 ($25 senior, $15 ages 17-25; ages 7-16 free with adult)
- Page Smith, cello
- Tamara Friedman, piano
Johann Sebastian Bach — Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009
Franz Joseph Haydn — Variations in F minor, Hob. XVII:6
Ludwig van Beethoven — Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Franz Schubert — Auf dem Wasser zu singen ("To Be Sung on the Water"), D. 774
Page Smith is solo cellist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet and was principal cellist of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra for twenty-five years and the Auburn Symphony for ten years—ensembles with which she has frequently appeared as soloist. Page has also served as principal cellist of the Aspen Chamber Symphony and the New Jersey Symphony, and currently plays upon invitation with the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Opera. She is one of this region's most beloved and trusted chamber musicians, performing with the Orcas Island Chamber Music Series, Music of Remembrance, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Mostly Nordic and Second City chamber music series.
Page especially enjoys playing the uniquely beautiful repertoire combining chorus and solo cello with St. Mark’s Compline Choir, Opus 7, Choral Arts Northwest, the St. Mark’s Cathedral Choir, Seattle Pro Musica, and the St. James Cathedral Choir.
Praised for the depth, wit, and humor of her performances (Seattle Times) and her "exemplary musicianship and true flair!" (Journal American), pianist Tamara Friedman attended the Oberlin Conservatory and Mannes College of Music, where she received her M.M. Music critic Morton Gold has observed that her playing of Mozart "reaches my heart as well as my intellect ... she realized the drama inherent in the work while being as sensitive and even romantic where the music suggested passion." "What more can one ask for, where such abundant detail is wed to such depth of feeling and affective intensity? Perfection. Bravo!" opined John Bell Young, author of Brahms: A Listener’s Guide.
Tamara has collaborated with such international artists as Stanley Ritchie, Jaap Schröder, and Max van Egmond, and appears with violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock as Duo Amadeus. In the Pacific Northwest she has performed on the Seattle Camerata, Allegro Baroque and Beyond, Belle Arte, Early Music Guild, Gallery Concerts, and Mostly Nordic series and for the Governor’s Chamber Music Festival. She has been the featured performer in early piano workshops for Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA) and the Western Early Keyboard Association, and curates the collection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century keyboard instruments on display at SEKM!—the Skagit Early Keyboard Museum. Her summers are spent in Bath, Maine, where she also has a group of historic pianos and performs on the Kennebec Early Music Festival.