George Benjamin – Past Concerts

Franz Joseph Haydn — Keyboard Sonata No. 50 in C major, Hob. XVI:50, L. 60
George Benjamin — Meditation on Haydn's Name (1982)
Richard Rodney Bennett — Impromptu on the Name of Haydn (1982)
Adam Sherkin — Abschieds-Sonatine, Op. 44, No. 3 (world premiere)

Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in G major, Op. 77, No. 1, Hob. III:81
George Benjamin — Viola Viola
George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn — String Quartet No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 44, No. 3

Program includes works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Andrei Volkonsky, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and George Benjamin.

Peter Nelson-King presents an eclectic program of individualist piano music from the 1980’s.

Violist Melia Watras explores written and improvised music with jazz innovators Cuong Vu and Ted Poor and Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim join Watras. Seattle Symphony pianist Kimberly Russ collaborates with Watras on written works by J.S. Bach and Henri Vieuxtemps, and Lim takes to the viola to join Watras for a performance of George Benjamin’s Viola, Viola.