Music on the Strait: Shostakovich's Eighth String Quartet

• Kyu-Young Kim, violin
• James Garlick, violin
• Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
• Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola
• George Li, piano

On the first half of this program, we celebrate the soloistic virtuosity of pianist George Li, silver medalist at the 2015 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition. To close, we present a 20th-century masterpiece, Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 – a work that the composer claimed he could never listen to without breaking into tears.

6:15pm pre-concert talk with Classic KING FM 98.1's Lisa Bergman

Free livestream available at musiconthestrait.com.

COVID-19 Protocols: Masks required.

About Music on the Strait

Music on the Strait celebrates chamber music in the singularly beautiful environment of the Olympic Peninsula and Salish Sea. Founded in Port Angeles in 2018 by locally-raised musicians James Garlick and Richard O'Neill in partnership with the Port Angeles Symphony, Music on the Strait aims to share chamber music, both its traditions and its emerging voices, through community programming and educational outreach.

About Kyu-Young Kim, violin

https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/kimx0885

About James Garlick, violin

https://www.macalester.edu/music/studio-instructors/

About Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello

http://www.saeunn.com/

About Richard Yongjae O'Neill, viola

https://www.richard-oneill.com/

About George Li, piano

http://www.georgelipianist.com/