Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival | Orcas~trations: Voice of the Whale
$45 ($10 ages 6-18)
- Daniel Ching, violin
- William Fedkenheuer, violin
- John Largess, viola
- Joshua Gindele, cello
- Alecia Lawyer, oboe
- Jon Kimura Parker, piano
- Ann Lemke, English horn
- Mary Lynch VanderKolk, oboe
- Nikki Chooi, violin
- Jun Iwasaki, violin
- Karolina Mikolajczyk, violin
- Yura Lee, viola
- Bion Tsang, cello
- Iwo Jedynecki, accordion
- Sandy Hughes, amplified flute
- Aloysia Friedmann, viola
Samuel Barber — Adagio for Strings
Alyssa Morris — Four Personalities for oboe and piano ("I. Yellow")
Marie Clémence de Grandval — Four Pieces for English Horn and Piano ("III. Andante espressivo" & "IV. Final")
Ennio Morricone — "Gabriel's Oboe" from The Mission
John Corigliano — The Red Violin Caprices
Wojciech Kostrzewa / Various — The Hollywood Fantasy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — String Duo No. 2 in B-flat major for violin and viola, K. 424
George Crumb — Vox Balaenae
The August 2023 Festival is here, along with some long-anticipated warm weather! Artistic Director Aloysia Friedmann is putting the finishing touches on a brilliant series of concerts for this season's Festival featuring a lineup of renowned musicians and composers. We heartily welcome back OICMF Artistic Advisor and pianist Jon Kimura Parker, the Miró Quartet, violinist Nikki Chooi, oboists Nathan Hughes and Alecia Lawyer, cellists Bion Tsang and Oliver Aldort, and bassist Chad Wesselkamper, and we are excited to get to know several Festival newcomers, including violinists Yura Lee and Karolina Mikolajczyk, flutist Sandy Hughes, oboists Ann Lemke and Mary Lynch VanderKolk, and accordionist Iwo Jedynecki!
This program will receive 2 in-person performances: Tuesday, August 8 at 7:30pm, and Wednesday, August 9 at 5:30pm. The August 9 performance will also be accessible online via free livestream.
Pre-Concert Talk one hour before concert time (free): "Oboe Lore" featuring Alecia Lawyer, Ann Lemke, and Mary Lynch VanderKolk with Aloysia Friedmann and Jon Kimura Parker
About William Fedkenheuer, violin
About John Largess, viola
Violist John Largess began his studies in Boston at age 12 in the public schools, studying with Michael Zaretsky of the Boston Symphony, and later as a student of Michael Tree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1995, he graduated from Yale University to join the Colorado String Quartet as interim violist with whom he toured the United States and Canada teaching and concertizing. The following year he was appointed principal violist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, a position he held until joining the Miro Quartet in 1997. Also an active speaker and writer about all things chamber?musical, in 2004 Mr. Largess was invited to give a week?long audience lecture series as a part of the Eighth International String Quartet Competition at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; he repeated this series in 2007, and will do so again in 2010. With his training in Greek and Latin Literature and his Bachelor's degree in Archeology from Yale University, as well as studies at the Hebrew University in Israel, he has participated in excavations in Greece, Israel, and Jordan. John loves to cook gourmet cuisine, particularly French pastry and fine desserts; luckily, he also enjoys exercising. John is a trained yoga instructor, having studied Vinyasa Power Yoga with Baron Baptiste. He also practices Kundalini, Bikram, and Astanga styles, and teaches yoga at 24 Hour Fitness and the Bodhi Yoga studio in Austin, Texas where he lives. When not standing on his head, he enjoys making his Tibetan Singing Bowl sing. John serves as Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of String Chamber Music at the University of Texas at Austin School of Music.
https://music.utexas.edu/about/people/john-largess