SCMS Summer Festival: Mozart, Kahane, Dvořák
In person: $60 ($25 student/ages 30 & under) | Stream: $30
- Orion Weiss, piano
- Timothy Chooi, violin
- Elena Urioste, violin
- Joan DerHovsepian, viola
- Julie Albers, cello
- Gabriel Kahane, piano
- James Ehnes, violin
- Jens Lindemann, trumpet
- Jon Kimura Parker, piano
- Stefan Jackiw, violin
- Beth Guterman Chu, viola
- Efe Baltacıgil, cello
Gabriel Kahane — Selected works (TBA; for piano, violin, & trumpet)
Antonín Dvořák — Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87
The last of twelve concerts, join us this Summer, In-Person or Online, for the world's best chamber music party!
From 12 concerts in Benaroya's Nordstrom Recital Hall, to 3 Concerts in the Park, 18 concerts aboard The Concert Truck, and the debut of Jazz@SCMS, our 2023 Summer Festival is our most ambitious yet!
This concert will be preceded by a free 30-minute Pre-Concert Recital at 6:30pm in the Nordstrom Recital Hall.
About Orion Weiss, piano
About Timothy Chooi, violin
About Elena Urioste, violin
About Julie Albers, cello
About Gabriel Kahane, piano
A singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer, Gabriel Kahane works at the blurred edges of journalism, ethnography, storytelling, and music. Kahane's style is often compared to Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainwright and has collaborated with both of these artists.
http://gabrielkahane.tumblr.com/About James Ehnes, violin
James Ehnes is recognized as one of the world's foremost violinists and is a favorite guest of many of the world's most celebrated orchestras and concert halls. Recent orchestral highlights include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, London Symphony, Gedwandhausorchester Leipzig, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
http://jamesehnes.comAbout Jens Lindemann, trumpet
About Jon Kimura Parker, piano
About Stefan Jackiw, violin
About Efe Baltacıgil, cello
Principal Cello of the Grammy-winning Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Turkey’s String Player of the Year, 2013, and awardee of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Mr. Baltacıgil is lauded for his risk-taking, passionate performances that immediately capture the heart and imagination.
Recipient of the Peter Jay Sharp Prize, the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, and first prize in concerto competitions of Istanbul, New York, and the Allentown, Pennsylvania Schadt String Competition, Baltacıgil experienced early acclaim as winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Recipient of a bachelor’s degree from the Mimar Sinan University Conservatory in Istanbul and an artist diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, Efe began his professional career in the United States as Associate Principal Cello of the Philadelphia Orchestra before joining the Seattle Symphony as Principal Cello in 2011.
https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/about/artists/strings/efe-baltacigil/Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
200 University St.Seattle, WA 98101
United States