CMNW: Seasonal Rhythms
$32.50-$62.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
- Soovin Kim, violin
- Daniel Chong, violin
- Sarah Kwak, violin
- Anna Lee, violin
- Vali Phillips, violin
- Jessica Bodner, viola
- Jordan Bak, viola
- Alexander Hersh, cello
- Deborah Pae, cello
- Braizahn Jones, double bass
- Gilles Vonsattel, piano
- Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor
David Schiff — Chamber Concerto No. 2: Vineyard Rhythms (world premiere)
Astor Piazzolla — Las cuatro estaciones porteñas ("The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires")
Our Earth’s ever-changing cycle of light and life has inspired composers for centuries. Tonight you’ll experience the world premiere of David Schiff's Vineyard Rhythms, celebrating the hibernation-to-harvest life of an Oregon vineyard, plus Tchaikovsky's Russian Seasons and Piazzolla's Tango-inspired Four Seasons of Buenos Aires. It’s three full "years" around the world of not-to-miss music!
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 Anna Lee, violin
About Jordan Bak, viola
About Alexander Hersh, cello
About Braizahn Jones, double bass
https://www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/braizahn-jones/