BMC Night Beat: Violinist Grant Donnellan & Pianist Judith Widrig
Free ($20 suggested donation)
- Grant Donnellan, violin
- Judith Widrig, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Selected works
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Selected works
Mykola Lysenko — Selected works
Valentin Silvestrov (Valentyn Sylvestrov) — Selected works
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
The Bellingham Music Club continues its 107th season under the theme Concerts à la Carte, with eclectic tastings throughout the year.
Violinist Grant Donnellan and pianist Judith Widrig offer a tribute to Ukraine in another installment of their European travelogue. Their full-length program features works by Ukrainian composers Mykola Lysenko and Valentin Silvestrov, and others with tie to Ukraine: Tchaikovsky who had a home there, Prokofiev who was born in eastern Ukraine, and Rachmaninov who founded the Kiev Conservatory.
To mark Night Beat’s 10th year, BMC is making music even more accessible to the community, and ticket purchase is not required. Students are always free; $20 suggested donation for others.
About Grant Donnellan, violin
Violinist Grant Donnellan holds a Master of Music degree and Performance Certificate from Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Oberlin Conservatory. His principal teachers include Sydney Harth, Eric Friedmann, Roland and Almita Vamos, and the Tokyo String Quartet. While at Yale he received the Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Chamber Music Excellence Award and was a member of the Irving S. Gillmore Scholarship Piano Trio. He has performed with numerous symphony orchestras, including the American Sinfonietta. Donnellan has been a guest artist at the Olympic Music Festival, the Governor's Recital Series, Bellingham Festival of Music, Wintergreen Music Festival, Cascadia Spring Music Festival, the Boulder Bach Society and the Holzhausen Music Festival in Germany. He has performed concertos with the Whatcom Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta and the Western Washington University Symphony Orchestra. He teaches violin and coaches chamber music at Western and co-directs the summer Chamber Music Festival.
https://cfpa.wwu.edu/people/gdonnelnAbout Judith Widrig, piano
Pianist Judith Widrig is a native of Syracuse, N.Y. She received a doctorate in piano from the University of Colorado in May of 2000, and piano performance degrees from The Hartt School of Music and The University of Minnesota. Prior to commencement of her doctoral work, Judith was collaborative pianist at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has also studied at the Banff Centre for the Arts with full scholarship, at the Schweitzer Institute, and at the Holzhausen Music Festival in Germany. Judith was a part-time instructor at the University of Colorado, and has taught private and class piano at the University of Minnesota.
Judith is active in the Northwest as a solo and chamber musician and is a founding member of the Bellingham Chamber Players. She frequently performs with faculty from the Western Washington University Music Department, and has played with orchestras on both coasts, including appearances as concerto soloist with the Whatcom and Skagit Symphony Orchestras. Judith has performed on several radio broadcasts, including WQXR in New York City, and has given concerts in Alaska and Europe as well as the East Coast. In her spare time, Judith enjoys hiking, reading, biking, yoga, gardening, and international travel.
https://cfpa.wwu.edu/people/widrigj