Seattle Modern Orchestra in Residence at University of Washington School of Music

• Luke Fitzpatrick, violin
• Rose Hashimoto, viola
• Ha-Yang Kim, cello
• Dan Williams, oboe
• Angelique Poteat, clarinet & bass clarinet
• Soren Hamm, alto saxophone

The closing concert of Seattle Modern Orchestra's residency at University of Washington's School of Music. This joint performance with the UW Modern Music ensemble will feature the West Coast premiere of Clocks for Seeing by guest composer Anthony Cheung along with world premieres of works by UW graduate students Justin Zeitlinger, Joe Krycia, Melissa Wang, and Yonatan Ron.

About Seattle Modern Orchestra

Founded in 2010, Seattle Modern Orchestra (SMO) is the only large ensemble in the Pacific Northwest solely dedicated to the music of the 20th and 21st Centuries. Led by co-artistic directors Julia Tai and Jérémy Jolley, SMO commissions and premieres new works from an international lineup of composers, in addition to presenting important pieces from the contemporary repertoire that are rarely if ever heard by Seattle audiences. The ensemble "operates at that exciting cusp between old and new, between tradition and innovation" (Vanguard Seattle) curating new sounds and experiences for concert goers in the region.

SMO provides audiences with performances of the best in contemporary chamber and orchestral music, and develops radio talks, lectures, and other forms of outreach in an accessible and inviting format all designed to expand the listener’s appreciation and awareness of the music of today.

About UW School of Music

http://music.washington.edu/

About Luke Fitzpatrick, violin

https://www.lukefitzpatrick.net/

About Rose Hashimoto, viola

Violist Rose Hashimoto grew up in Seattle, lived and worked in New York City for 15 years, and recently returned to the Seattle area. Rose has performed with ensembles including A Far Cry, Shattered Glass Ensemble, the Thalia Quartet, the Aeolus Quartet, and the Argus Quartet; as a soloist with the Mannes Orchestra; and at music festivals including Icicle Creek, Birdfoot Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Summer Chamber Music, Yellow Barn, Taos, and Kneisel Hall. She played with the Experiential Orchestra on the Grammy-winning recording of Ethel Smyth’s The Prison and on A Far Cry’s Grammy-nominated album, Visions and Variations. Rose earned a B.M. from Juilliard and an M.M. and Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College.

Rose is a dedicated educator who received Suzuki training from School for Strings in New York. She currently serves on the faculty at the Suzuki Institute of Seattle and Kaleidoscope School of Music in Issaquah. She previously taught at Lucy Moses School, the Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, and Harmony Program.

About Ha-Yang Kim, cello

Ha-Yang Kim is a cellist, composer, and improviser who has developed a unique language of extended string techniques and creates her own music based on this work, as well as collaborating on new pieces from other composers. Her musical influences draw equally from a range of western classical music, American experimentalism, rock, jazz, and improvised music, to non-western musical sources from Bali, Korea and South Indian classical music (Karnatic). She has collaborated/performed with many diverse musicians such as Evan Ziporyn, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Christian Wolff, Lee Hyla, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Ligeti, Larry Polansky, and Stefan Poetzsch.

About Dan Williams, oboe

Dan Williams is one of Seattle’s most sought-after performers, as soloist, orchestral musician, teacher and recording artist. He is principal oboist of the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra, and has also served as principal oboist of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. He held the same positions in the Harrisburg (PA) and Binghamton (NY) Symphonies. He has also played principal oboe with the Seattle Symphony and the Seattle Opera. Of his 1996 performance of Bach’s Double Concerto with Joseph Silverstein and the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Seattle Times reported that "oboist Dan Williams poured out waves of beautiful tone with considerable musicality." In a 1999 review of the Vaughan-Williams Oboe concerto, the Bellingham Herald described Williams as "a consummate player, in easy command of those subtle shades of color and phrase that can let the oboe approach the expressive range of the human voice. It was a performance to melt your heart."

Mr. Williams currently teaches oboe at the University of Puget Sound, and has served on the faculties of Western Washington University and the University of Washington School of Music.

A native of Seattle, Dan Williams received his musical training at the Juilliard School and at Western Washington University, where he was voted most Outstanding Graduate by the music faculty.

About Angelique Poteat, clarinet & bass clarinet

Angelique Poteat is a native of the Pacific Northwest, and many of her works are inspired by the natural beauty of the region. Her music has been described as "engaging, restless" (The New York Times), "serious and nicely crafted" (American Record Guide), and "extremely accomplished and vividly picturesque" (Seattle Times), receiving performances on four continents by ensembles including the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, arx Percussion Duo, Emerald City Music, CernaBella, and Trio Claviola. As a clarinetist, Poteat enjoys performing a wide variety of genres, from orchestral to new music for bass clarinet. She has appeared as a soloist with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, North Corner Chamber Orchestra, and Saratoga Orchestra, and also performs with the Seattle Modern Orchestra, Northwest Sinfonietta, and regularly with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Bellingham Festival of Music, and Sunriver Music Festival.

About Soren Hamm, alto saxophone

Heard on the popular radio programs Performance Today and Northwest Focus Live, saxophonist Soren Hamm teaches on the faculties of Seattle Pacific University and Pierce College Puyallup. He is the only person to win both the Solo and (with the Equus Saxophone Quartet) Chamber Ensemble divisions of Seattle's Frances Walton Competition, and was a winner of the Northwest MTNA Competitions on multiple occasions. He has performed with some of the Puget Sound's pre-eminent ensembles, including the Northwest Sinfonietta, Seattle Modern Orchestra, and Opus 7 Choir; in 2023, he made his Benaroya Hall debut as soloist with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra on Ibert's Concertino da Camera.

Soren is an avid promoter of new music for saxophone. His work with composers including Dai Fujikura, Marilyn Shrude, and Seattle's John Muehleisen, among many others, has resulted in dozens of premieres, as well as performances at the Bowling Green New Music Festival, Ball State New Music Festival, and the New Music Gathering. Soren is a founding member of Onomatopoeia, the world's first flute/saxophone/horn trio, and helped commission the first original repertoire for this combination of instruments.

Soren holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (MM) and the University of Oregon (BM), graduating from the latter with the distinction of Outstanding Undergraduate Performer in Woodwinds; he also completed Music Education studies at Western Washington University. His teachers include John Sampen, Idit Shner, and Fred Winkler.