Olympic Music Festival: Ravishing Rhapsodies
$40 ($15 student; ages 12 & under free)
- David Bowlin, violin
- Steven Copes, violin
- Dimitri Murrath, viola
- Efe Baltacıgil, cello
- Julio Elizalde, piano
- Robert McDonald, piano
Gabriel Fauré — Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115
Robert Schumann — Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
Near the end of his life, the French composer Gabriel Fauré experienced the same fate as Beethoven when he began to lose his hearing. In his final years, he wrote some of his most probing and introspective works including his gorgeous second piano quintet in C minor. Antonín Dvořák completed his Terzetto in one week in hopes of playing it with two violinist friends and it captures the folk music charm that his music is best known for. Robert Schumann’s first piano trio in D minor explores a completely new world of romantic music that was more personal than what had come before.
About the 2023 Festival: Olympic Music Festival's fortieth summer season will feature in-person performances at Fort Worden's Wheeler Theater: Saturdays and Sundays, 2pm, August 12 through August 20 and September 2 through September 10, 2023. Tickets are on sale now at www.olympicmusicfestival.org. All seats are $40, except for tickets to the Season Finale, which are $60; youth ages 7-12 are free when accompanied by an adult. Student and group rates are also available.
About David Bowlin, violin
About Steven Copes, violin
About Dimitri Murrath, viola
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/About Julio Elizalde, piano
Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park
200 Battery WayPort Townsend, WA 98368
United States
http://parks.state.wa.us/397/Fort-Worden---Wheeler-Theater
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