Siletz Bay Music Festival: A Saturday Soiree
$25 ($10 student)
- Anthea Kreston, violin
- Michelle Bushkova, violin
- Miriam English Ward, viola
- Jason Duckles, cello
- Asi Matathias, violin
- Tosca Opdam, violin
- James Stern, violin
Sergei Prokofiev — Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"
About Siletz Bay Music Festival
The mission of Siletz Bay Music Festival is to bring multi-genre world class music performed by outstanding musicians to the Central Oregon Coast; to reach across race, culture, age, social and economic barriers, to uplift and educate all people seeking extraordinary musical experiences.
The Siletz Bay Music Festival has grown from an intimate chamber music series to becoming a centerpiece of cultural life on the Central Oregon Coast, bringing great chamber and orchestral music, jazz, and added surprises to throngs of Lincoln City residents and visitors for more than two weeks each summer. While the Festival has changed, the constant has been the devotion of our audiences.
We are the only on-going music festival in the region that brings together more than 65 extraordinary musicians from all over the globe, participating in a variety of musical genres. Under the guidance of Artistic Director, Yaacov Bergman, we continue to create new and exciting programming with a proven mix of classical favorites, unique, eclectic, cutting-edge musical selections, family-friendly, and theatre events.
https://siletzbaymusic.org/About Anthea Kreston, violin
Violinist Anthea Kreston sometimes just needs to pinch herself. How did she get so lucky? She was the first American violinist to play in a major European string quartet, the Artemis Quartet – and she travelled the world, performing on some of the most legendary stages a person could dream of, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore – from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Seoul. She was a Professor at the Universität der Kunste Berlin, where Clara Schumann and Schoenberg taught. She also was a Master Teacher at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel in Brussels, where her students won competitions from Australia to New York. She loves to write – penning a classical music blog which was one of the top-5 most read music blogs internationally, and has an awesome husband and two funny and generous daughters. Her recent release on Warner Classics is a recording of Shostakovich Quartets and Piano Quintet, and she has hosted her own podcast from the Boulez Hall in the heart of Berlin. She has played in the Berlin Philharmonic, and as concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. But most of all, she loves being with her family, growing tomatoes, and petting bunnies.
https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/akrestonAbout Michelle Bushkova, violin
Michelle Bushkova was born in Moscow in 2004. She continues the family traditions in music in the third generation. At the age of four she started violin lessons with professor Galina Turchaninova. In the following year she enrolled into the preparation program by the Gnessin State Musical College in the piano class of Professor Tatiana Zelikman. Since 2011 she has studied music at two prominent Moscow music schools: piano at Gnessin and violin at the Central Music school by the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
Michelle Bushkova took part in violin masterclasses by Ilya & Olga Kaler (USA), Pavel Vernikov & Svetlana Makarova (Switzerland) and the "Keshet Eilon" International string masterclasses in Israel. On the piano she has attended masterclasses by Stephen Kovacevich (England), Anna Malikova (Germany), and Victoria Mushkatkol (USA). She also receives a scholarship from the International Academy of Music in Liechtenstein and participates in the intensive music weeks held there.
Michelle is a laureate of "Goldene Note" Audition in Vienna, the "Manhattan International Music Competition" and the "Berlin International Music Competition."
Several days before her 6th birthday she made her solo debut performance as violinist and pianist with the Belarusian State chamber orchestra in Minsk. Michelle performed with orchestras in Moscow, Minsk, Saratov, Yaroslavl, Istanbul, Ankara (Turkey). She has appeared in the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, the Pushkin Museum's Museyon Hall in Moscow, the Palais de Beaux-Arts in Brussels, the Svetlanov's Hall of the Moscow International House of Music, the National Center of the Performing Arts NCPA in Mumbai and the Wiener Konzerthaus.
Michelle Bushkova participated in the Musica Mundi Chamber music Festival in Belgium, the Gstaad New Year Music Festival in Switzerland, Stay-in-May International World Festival in Naples, Florida, the Rheingau Festival and the Moscow Autumn Contemporary Music Festival.