CMNW New@Night: American Triptych
$30 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
- Soovin Kim, violin
- Benjamin Beilman, violin
- Anna Lee, violin
- Aiden Kane, viola
- Tate Zawadiuk, cello
- Ellen Hwangbo, piano
Alistair Coleman — Moonshot: A Triptych for String Quartet
David Serkin Ludwig — Swan Song
New music should be both fun and intriguing! Meet your friends at The Armory, grab a beverage, and enjoy new music from three of America’s most exciting young composers.
Performance will be preceded by an optional Happy Hour at 5pm.
Please review CMNW's current COVID-19 Protocols before attending this event: https://cmnw.org/docs/content/REVISED_2-2_COVID_Ticket_Agreement.pdf
About Chamber Music Northwest (CMNW)
Chamber Music Northwest serves more than 50,000 people annually in Oregon and SW Washington with exceptional chamber music through over 100 events annually, including our flagship Summer Festival, year-round concerts, community activities, educational programs, broadcasts, and innovative collaborations with other arts groups. CMNW is the only chamber music festival of its kind in the Northwest and one of the most diverse classical music experiences in the nation, virtually unparalleled in comparable communities.
Chamber Music Northwest's mission is to inspire our community through concerts and events celebrating the richness and diversity of chamber music, performed by artists of the highest caliber, presenting our community with exceptional opportunities for enjoyment, education, and reflection.
https://cmnw.org/About Soovin Kim, violin
Soovin Kim enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart and Haydn concertos and symphonies as a conductor, and new world-premiere works almost every season. When he was 20 years old, Kim received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition. He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the first violinist of the Johannes Quartet. Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini's demanding 24 Caprices, and a two-disc set of Bach's complete solo violin works that were released in 2022.
Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont. In addition to its explorative programming and extensive work with living composers, LCCMF created the ONE Strings program through which all third- through fifth-grade students of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington study violin. The University of Vermont recognized Soovin Kim's work by bestowing an Honorary Doctorate upon him in 2015. In 2020, he and his wife, pianist Gloria Chien, became Artistic Directors of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He, with Chien, were awarded Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's 2021 CMS Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music. Kim devotes much of his time to his passion for teaching at the New England Conservatory in Boston, and the Yale School of Music in New Haven.
https://cmnw.org/artists/artists/soovin-kim/28/About Benjamin Beilman, violin
About Anna Lee, violin
About Aiden Kane, viola
American violist Aiden Kane has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia as a current member of the Viano Quartet, First Prize Laureates of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition.
After leaving violin for the dark side, Aiden first studied viola with Daniel Foster through the National Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Fellowship Program. She subsequently earned a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees (in viola performance and chamber music studies, respectively) at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Paul Coletti. During her undergraduate years at Colburn, Aiden discovered her love for quartet life as the violist of the Calla Quartet, which received the Silver medal at the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and presented Colburn’s inaugural Musical Encounters outreach program.
Since she joined the Viano Quartet, Viano has won prizes, weathered a pandemic, moved from one coast to another, studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in their string quartet-in-residence program, and joined the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program – and Aiden loves quartet life even more for it all.
https://www.vianostringquartet.com/aidenkaneAbout Tate Zawadiuk, cello
Canadian cellist Tate Zawadiuk is both soloist and chamber musician. Most recently, he performed as a soloist with James Ehnes and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for their Centennial Celebration Gala Concert. Mr. Zawadiuk has also performed as a soloist with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Philharmonic, New Westminster Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Vancouver Academy of Music Orchestra. In these concerts, Mr. Zawadiuk worked with renowned conductors such as Bramwell Tovey, Otto Tausk, Pierre Simard, Evan Mitchell, Leslie Dala, and Edmond Agopian.
As a chamber musician, Mr. Zawadiuk is a founding member of the Viano String Quartet, in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program from 2024-2027. The quartet won First Prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. They also won Third Prize at the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, and in 2017 they won Third Prize at the Osaka International String Quartet Competition. The Viano String Quartet is the Quartet in Residence at the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
https://www.tatezawadiuk.com/