45th Parallel Holiday Pub Crawl: Ellington's 'Nutcracker Suite'
$20 advance, $22 at the door
- Seth Biagini, cello
- Pansy Chang, cello
- Trevor Fitzpatrick, cello
- Antoinette Gan, cello
- Kevin Kunkel, cello
- Marilyn de Oliveira, cello
Singer/songwriter Jim Brunberg joins the North Pole Cello Sextet for the grand finale, featuring Duke Ellington's legendary version of The Nutcracker Suite, arranged by Portlander John Nastos.
About the Pub Crawl: On December 19th, 2023, 45th Parallel Universe is producing a four-venue musical pub crawl on the N. Mississippi stretch of Portland that will feature a variety of holiday musical events from 6-9pm, concluding with a 9pm mainstage finale at Mississippi Studios.
From 6pm-9pm, musical performances will happen on the hour simultaneously at three separate venues, all on the business block of the North Mississippi neighborhood, with a suggested donation of $10 per person.
Patrons and fans are encouraged to visit all three venues at their leisure before coming to the 9pm mainstage show at Mississippi studios featuring local composer and songwriter Jim Brunberg and the North Pole Cello Sextet of the 45th Parallel Universe, performing Duke Ellington's legendary arrangement of The Nutcracker Suite. (The mainstage show will be $20 advance, $22 at the door)
Full Pub Crawl schedule available here: https://www.45thparallelpdx.org/concerts/holiday-pub-crawl/
About Seth Biagini, cello
Seth Biagini’s musical experiences have taken him to venues as obscure as the top of Aspen Mountain, an isolated East Coast island accessible only by boat, and a beer hall in Austria, as well as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Disney Hall. Hailing from a family of cellists, Seth begun his training in piano at age four and added the cello at age nine. Having received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at The Juilliard School, Seth studied with renowned cellists such as Timothy Eddy, Natasha Brofsky, Alan Stepansky, and Robert deMaine. Competition accolades include Variations on a Rococo Theme by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky with the Palisades Symphony Orchestra and Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Culver City Orchestra as well as the Pasadena Community Orchestra. His love for chamber music has led him to summer festivals, where he has spent time at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School and Festival, Taos School of Music, Aspen Music Festival and School, and Sarasota Music Festival. Attending Aspen Music Festival and School for three years, the New York String Orchestra Seminar led by Jaime Loredo, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and, most recently, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, has given Seth the experience needed to enter the professional orchestral arena, first with Colorado Symphony and now Oregon Symphony.
https://www.orsymphony.org/discover/orchestra/strings/seth-biagini/About Pansy Chang, cello
http://www.miamioh.edu/cca/academics/departments/music/about/faculty-staff/strings/pansy-chang.html
About Trevor Fitzpatrick, cello
https://www.portlandopera.org/about/people/orchestra/trevor-fitzpatrick/