Chintimini Chamber Music Festival: Nova
$30 ($100 season ticket)
- Fritz Gearhart, violin
- Anthea Kreston, violin
- Andrew Duckles, viola
- Charles Noble, viola
- Anne Ridlington, cello
- Noah Seitz, cello
- Chris Kim, double bass
Richard Strauss — Metamorphosen: A Study for 23 Strings, TrV 290, AV 142
Johannes Brahms — String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36 "Agathe"
About Chintimini Chamber Music Festival
The Chintimini Chamber Music Festival, founded in 2001, is built around performers who grew up in Willamette Valley and are now pursuing concert careers in classical music. There are at least 26 such artists living in the US and Europe, playing in symphonies, operas, chamber orchestras, and touring ensembles, and auditioning for new opportunities.
https://www.chintimini.org/About Fritz Gearhart, violin
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 Charles Noble, viola
About Noah Seitz, cello
Noah Seitz, a Corvallis native, completed his Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance at the UMKC Conservatory of Music in 2001. He then returned to Oregon as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Oregon. He is a member of the Eugene Symphony and the Oregon Mozart Players, and regularly performs with the OSU Symphony, Camerata Musica Chamber Music Series in Salem, Chintimini Chamber Music Festival, and various Oregon ensembles.
Noah is adjunct professor of cello and chamber music at Pacific University. He has performed as featured soloist with Willamette Valley Symphony, Salem Philharmonia, Pacific University Philharmonic, and the U of O Symphony. Beyond music, Noah holds a Private Pilot license, and loves anything to do with aviation.
https://eugenesymphony.org/about-us/get-to-know-us/musicians/strings/noah-seitz