Music of Remembrance: Peace Imagined
$60 ($25 student w/ valid ID)
- Mikhail Shmidt, violin
- Natasha Bazhanov, violin
- Jessica Choe, piano
- Laura DeLuca, clarinet
- Artur Girsky, viola
- Walter Gray, cello
- Jonathan Green, double bass
- Demarre McGill, flute
- Vanessa Isiguen, soprano
- Milad Yousufi, doumbek
Erwin Schulhoff — Sonata for Flute and Piano
Sandor Kuti — String Quartet No. 2 (U.S. premiere)
Simon A. Sargon — Shema
Milad Yousufi — ...I Cried
Milad Yousufi — Imaginary Peace
Visions of peace have helped sustain people in the darkest of times and inspired bold ideas and actions to create a better world.
Two works by Afghan-born composer Milad Yousufi reflect his dream of making a difference to the rich culture of his troubled homeland. His Imaginary Peace is a message of hope amid a world of conflict. His I cried portrays the longing for home of a refugee wandering to an unknown destination. Imaginative works by Erwin Schulhoff and Sándor Kuti, two composers murdered in the Holocaust, challenge us to imagine what they and so many others might have created in longer lives and in a normal world. A musical setting of Primo Levi's haunting literary witness to the Holocaust searingly depicts the struggle to preserve a human identity in the face of overwhelming forces bent on destroying it.
About Mikhail Shmidt, violin
About Natasha Bazhanov, violin
About Jessica Choe, piano
https://seattlesymphony.org/about/meetthemusicians/theorchestra/artists/a-h/choe-jessica
About Laura DeLuca, clarinet
About Artur Girsky, viola
About Walter Gray, cello
About Jonathan Green, double bass
Jonathan Green, double bass, joined the Seattle Symphony as Assistant Principal Bass in 1998. He was the double bassist for the world premiere and recording of several Music of Remembrance commissions: Thomas Pasatieri's Letter to Warsaw, Paul Schoenfield's Camp Songs and Ghetto Songs,and Gerard Schwarz's Rudolf and Jeanette. He can also be heard on MOR's recording of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Out of Darkness (Naxos 2014).
https://www.musicofremembrance.org/artists/jonathan-greenAbout Demarre McGill, flute
One of the world’s leading flutists, Demarre serves as Principal Flute of the award-winning Seattle Symphony as well as Associate Professor of Flute, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His many appearances span the continent and include concerto, recital, chamber festival, and National Flute Society Featured-Artist engagements.
As an educator, Demarre has performed, coached, and presented master classes in South Africa, Korea, Japan, Quebec, and throughout the United States; appeared as speaker and performer at the 2018 League of American Orchestras Conference with his brother, clarinetist Anthony McGill; and has served on the faculties of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, the National Orchestral Institute (NOI) at the University of Maryland, the Orford Music Festival, and Summerfests at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Mr. McGill is a graduate of Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
https://www.demarremcgill.com/About Vanessa Isiguen, soprano
About Milad Yousufi, doumbek
Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
200 University St.Seattle, WA 98101
United States