Music on the Strait Festival Finale: Denk performs Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, & Johannes Brahms
$25-$50 ($10 ages 12, $5 under/student age 13-25)
- Jeremy Denk, piano
- James Garlick, violin
- Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola
- Ani Aznavoorian, cello
Robert Schumann — Märchenbilder ("Fairy Tale Pictures") for viola and piano, Op. 113
Johannes Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 26
In October 1853, a 20-year-old young composer named Johannes Brahms knocked on the door of Robert and Clara Schumann with a letter of introduction. That same year, Clara Schumann wrote her Three Romances for Violin and Piano, and Robert Schumann soon proclaimed Brahms the heir to Beethoven's musical lineage and so began one of the most intimate friendships in music history. Jeremy Denk leads us on a rare and remarkable journey to explore these three intertwined musical voices.
NOTE: There will be no pre-concert talk but Jeremy Denk will give remarks from the stage during the performance.
About Music on the Strait
Music on the Strait celebrates chamber music in the singularly beautiful environment of the Olympic Peninsula and Salish Sea. Founded in Port Angeles in 2018 by locally-raised musicians James Garlick and Richard O'Neill in partnership with the Port Angeles Symphony, Music on the Strait aims to share chamber music, both its traditions and its emerging voices, through community programming and educational outreach.
https://www.musiconthestrait.com/About Jeremy Denk, piano
About Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola
About Ani Aznavoorian, cello
Cellist Ani Aznavoorian has appeared as soloist with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Boston Pops. Aznavoorian is an avid chamber musician and teacher. She is the principal cellist of Camerata Pacifica, and she appears regularly at chamber music festivals around the globe. She has also served on the music faculty at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, and has spent summers as faculty of the Great Mountains Music Festival and School in South Korea. She is the recipient of the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award for her playing and artistry, has been named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and is a prize winner of the International Paulo Cello Competition. She is a proponent of new music and has premiered concertos by Auerbach and Laderman and the chamber music repertoire by Harbison, Bruce, and Sheng. Aznavoorian records for Cedille Records and she proudly performs on a cello made by her father Peter Aznavoorian in Chicago.
https://www.aniaznavoorian.com/