Melia Watras – Past Concerts

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — Selected works
Frances White — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works

Benjamin Britten — Selected works
Felix Mendelssohn — Selected works
Kaija Saariaho — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works (world premiere TBA)

Atar Arad — Ciaconna for viola sola
Béla Bartók — 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (selections from Books I & II)
Melia Watras — Blue Rose for viola solo
Melia Watras — Sarabanda (The void after the second beat — for Atar)
Melia Watras — Lament for viola solo
Béla Bartók — 44 Duos for Two Violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 (selections from Books III & IV)
Johann Sebastian Bach — "V. Chaconne" from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (trans. for viola)

Wang Lu — Selected works
Melia Watras — Barking up which tree?
Yiheng Yvonne Wu — Four Poems of Li-Young Lee

Melia Watras — Selected works

Madeline Warner / Melia Watras — String Theory I (for one or more performers)
Breana Tavaglione — Arid, Landscape Study (for viola & electronics; world premiere)
Jonathan Rodriguez Grijalva — Prohibited Space (for viola & live processing; world premiere)
Sandesh Nagaraj — Revolting Forms (for viola, electronics, & interactive video; world premiere)
Madeline Warner / Melia Watras — String Theory II (for one or more performers; world premiere)
Joël-François Durand — Geister, wieder (for viola solo; world premiere)
Wei Yang — ní nán (for fixed media; world premiere)

Program includes works by Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, Melia Watras, Igor Stravinsky, John Corigliano, and Paola Prestini.

Robert Hutchinson — Selected works
Melia Watras — Selected works
Jerry Kracht — Selected works
Sheila Bristow — Selected works
Elise Winkler — Selected works
Kathryn Derksen — Selected works

Sergei Prokofiev — Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical"
Melia Watras — A brazen butterfly alights (Melia Watras, viola; Valerie Muzzolini, harp)
Giovanni Bottesini — Gran duo concertante for violin and double bass (Rachel Lee Priday, violin; Jordan Anderson, double bass)
Giuseppe Battista Sammartini — Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 5, No. 6 ("Pastorale")
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello)
Johannes Brahms — Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 (Daren Weissfisch, conductor)

Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — ko'u inoa
Melia Watras — Hertabuise for narrator and violin (world premiere)
Alessandra Barrett — La Foliage for violin and viola (world premiere)
Melia Watras — 5 Poems of Herbert Woodward Martin for narrator, violin and viola (world premiere)
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti — to be two for violin and viola (world premiere)
Melia Watras — Weeping Pendula for voice and loop pedal (world premiere)
Frances White — As night falls

Melia Watras — The almond tree duos (world premiere)

Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster Michael Jinsoo Lim brings us music from the stage adapted to the intimacy of a winter “hot chocolate and tea” concert at Lakewold Gardens.

Innovative, invigorating, and intriguing chamber music performed by members of the acclaimed Corigliano Quartet and Decoda.

Melia Watras – Folk Style Project (world premiere)
Charles Corey – In Paradisum for viola and Harmonic Canon
Meila Watras – String Masks

Join this Seattle-based modular chamber ensemble as they perform music by Bloch, Klein, Kodály, and Watras.

Huck Hodge – Depart
Melia Watras – Luminous Points
Yiğit Kolat – DARN. for Violin and Electronics
Charles Corey – Concentric Bagatelles (world premiere)

Ernő Dohnányi’s Serenade, duos by Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, Maurice Ravel, and Melia Watras, and more.

Music by Arad, Britten, Penderecki, and Watras.

Solo cello recital including premieres of pieces by Halldór Smárason, Þuríður Jónsdóttir, Páll Ragnar Pálsson, and Melia Watras.

A dynamic new chamber ensemble presents a program of interconnected works by Beethoven, Janáček, and Watras, plus improvisation.