SCMS Winter Festival: Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Dvořák
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- Charles Richard-Hamelin, piano
- Andrew Wan, violin
- Zlatomir Fung, cello
- James Ehnes, violin
- Orion Weiss, piano
- Anton Nel, piano
- Bella Hristova, violin
- Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
- Julie Albers, cello
Ralph Vaughan Williams — Violin Sonata in A minor
Antonín Dvořák — Piano Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 23
Join us this Winter as we explore the unbelievably fertile period of musical history taking place in the British Isles. Alongside works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and other great masters, each concert will feature music from Britain's greatest composers of the first half of the 20th Century. SCMS Artistic Director James Ehnes is joined by the world's greatest musicians to present a musical journey that you won't want to miss.
About Andrew Wan, violin
About Zlatomir Fung, cello
About James Ehnes, violin
James Ehnes is recognized as one of the world's foremost violinists and is a favorite guest of many of the world's most celebrated orchestras and concert halls. Recent orchestral highlights include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, London Symphony, Gedwandhausorchester Leipzig, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.
http://jamesehnes.comAbout Orion Weiss, piano
About Anton Nel, piano
Anton Nel, winner of the first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall, continues to enjoy a remarkable and multifaceted career that has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Following an auspicious debut at the age of twelve with Beethoven’s C-major concerto after only two years of study, the Johannesburg native captured first prizes in all the major South African competitions while still in his teens, toured his native country extensively, and became a well-known radio and television personality. A student of Adolph Hallis, he made his European debut in France in 1982, and in the same year graduated with the highest distinction from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He came to the United States in 1983, attending the University of Cincinnati, where he pursued his Master’s and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees under Bela Siki and Frank Weinstock. In addition to garnering many awards from his alma mater during this three-year period, he was a prizewinner at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition in England and won several first prizes at the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition in Palm Desert in 1986.
Highlights of Mr. Nel’s four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. An acclaimed Beethoven interpreter, Anton Nel has performed the concerto cycle several times, most notably on two consecutive evenings with the Cape Philharmonic in 2005. Additionally, he has performed all-Beethoven solo recitals, complete cycles of the violin and cello works, and most recently, a highly successful run of the Diabelli Variations as part of Moises Kaufman’s play 33 Variations.
As a recitalist, he has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum, the Frick Collection in New York, the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Internationally, he has performed recitals in major concert halls in Canada, England (Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London), France, Holland (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Japan (Suntory Hall in Tokyo), Korea, China, and South Africa.
https://www.antonnel.com/About Bella Hristova, violin
About Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
https://www.curtis.edu/academics/faculty/milena-pajaro-van-de-stadt/
About Julie Albers, cello
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
200 University St.Seattle, WA 98101
United States