Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival Concert V: Beethoven, Crumb, Strauss, Bacewicz, Esmail
In person: $25 ($10 student) | Stream: $15
- Avalon String Quartet
- Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
- Christina Dahl, piano
- Emely Phelps, piano
- Cyndia Sieden, soprano
- Meta Weiss, cello
George Crumb — Otherworldly Resonances (for 2 amplified pianos)
Richard Strauss — Selected works (songs TBA)
Grażyna Bacewicz — String Quartet No. 7
Reena Esmail — Piano Quintet
This summer Icicle Creek is proud to present the 29th season of this celebrated program. We look forward to having you join us for the inspiring performances by the Festival Artists and the Institute Young Artists in the spectacular setting of Canyon Wren Recital Hall, plus some special community venues!
Festival passes are available for $150 in-person or $90 stream, and include access to all Festival Series and Young Artist Series performances. More information: https://icicle.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SHp00000eoWyFMAU
About Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival
http://icicle.org/performances/icicle-creek-chamber-music-festival
About Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
Russian-born pianist Oksana Ejokina appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. Oksana is the pianist of the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide. A sought-after teacher, Ejokina is Chair of Piano Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. She has been associated with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for nearly fifteen years serving as Artistic Director of several flagship classical music programs.
https://www.plu.edu/music/staff/oksana-ezhokina/About Christina Dahl, piano
Christina Dahl has established a reputation as one of the leading teachers of her generation, working for nearly twenty years in the Stony Brook University graduate music department, a program that has fostered eclectic pianists whose careers range from Bang On a Can and Yarn/Wire membership to prizewinning in the Cleveland Competition, the Gina Bachauer, the Orleans and other international solo competitions. Since childhood her focus has been on chamber music: Christina can be heard on the Bridge, Albany and Tzadik labels. She has twice been a cultural ambassador for the US State Department, and has toured and taught master classes in Africa, South America, and the United States.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/dahl_christina.html