Curtis on Tour: 'The Soldier's Tale' with John de Lancie
$37.50-$67.50 ($20 ages 18-29, $10 ages 17 & under)
- Soovin Kim, violin
- David Shifrin, clarinet
- William McGregor, double bass
- Luis Marquez Teruel, bassoon
- James Vaughen, trumpet
- Derek Gullett, trombone
- Tae McLoughlin, percussion
- John de Lancie, narrator
- Micah Gleason, conductor
Francis Poulenc — Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, FP 32a
Eugène Ysaÿe — Violin Sonata No. 6 in E major, Op. 27, No. 6
Nick Diberardino — Darmok & Jalad
Igor Stravinsky — L'Histoire du soldat ("The Soldier’s Tale")
A thrilling tale of trickery and magic, Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat ("The Soldier's Tale") comes to life through an ensemble of renowned Curtis Institute of Music alumni leading their finest student musicians. Named "one of the world's leading music academies" (BBC Culture), two preeminent Curtis Institute graduates—CMNW Artistic Director Emeritus David Shifrin (1980-2020) and Artistic Director Soovin Kim (2020-present)—team up with Curtis's rising-star performers, and are joined by beloved actor and narrator John de Lancie (Star Trek & Breaking Bad) who voices the characters for this dramatic treat.
Beyond Stravinsky's well-known The Soldier's Tale, the program also features stirring masterpieces by Francis Poulenc and Eugène Ysaÿe, and features Curtis alumnus composers Viet Cuong with his 2019 Well-Groomed for Solo Snare Drum, and Nicholas DiBerardino with his Star Trek-inspired new work, Darmok & Jalad.
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 Curtis on Tour
Curtis on Tour features extraordinary emerging professional artists performing alongside celebrated faculty and alumni. Grounded in Curtis's "learn by doing" philosophy and steeped in the school’s distinguished history of artistic excellence, this innovative global touring initiative is an integral component of a Curtis education.
For more than 10 years, Curtis on Tour artists and ensembles have delighted audiences around the globe with performances that are "exhilarating from beginning to end" (Washington Post).
https://www.curtis.edu/curtis-performances/on-tour/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/