Music of Remembrance: Identity
$60 ($25 student w/valid student ID)
- Spectrum Dance
- Vanessa Isiguen, soprano
- Laura DeLuca, clarinet
- Mikhail Shmidt, violin
- Natasha Bazhanov, violin
- Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola
- Walter Gray, cello
- Jonathan Green, double bass
- Cristina Valdés, piano
Luís Tinoco — Tribulations (world premiere)
Myroslav Skoryk — Carpathian Rhapsody (for clarinet & piano)
Carlos Simon — Requiem for the Enslaved ("V. Remember Me")
Geeshie Wiley — Last Kind Words (arr. Jacob Garchik)
Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser's Option
Jessie Montgomery — Source Code (world premiere of new dances by Spectrum Dance Theater's Donald Byrd)
MOR is presenting works by prominent Black American composers Rhiannon Giddens, Carlos Simon, and Jessie Montgomery. Also on the program: a brand-new dance choreographed by Donald Byrd of Spectrum Dance Theater and world-premiere chamber music by award-winning Portuguese composer Luis Tinoco about "Crypto-Jews" forced by the Inquisition to conceal their identity.
Guest artists: soprano Vanessa Isiguen and dancers from Spectrum Dance Theater.
Special guests: choreographer Donald Byrd and composer Luis Tinoco.
About Vanessa Isiguen, soprano
About Laura DeLuca, clarinet
About Mikhail Shmidt, violin
About Natasha Bazhanov, violin
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 Cristina Valdés, piano
Cristina Valdés (piano) has performed across four continents and in venues such as Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Miller Theatre, Jordan Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and she is currently an Artist-in-Residence at UW.
https://music.washington.edu/people/cristina-valdesIllsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall
200 University St.Seattle, WA 98101
United States