Sundays @ Icicle Creek: Marie Wang & Oksana Ejokina
$25 ($15 student)
- Marie Wang, violin
- Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
A chamber music concert in Canyon Wren Recital Hall with Oksana Ejokina, piano, and Marie Wang, violin, performing music by Amy Beach, Florence Price, and Guillaume Lekeu.
About Marie Wang, violin
Violinist Marie Wang has been in the Avalon String Quartet since its inception in 1995. As a member of this award-winning ensemble, she has captured top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild and the Munich ARD international competitions. The quartet has performed at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie & Weill Halls, Alice Tully, 92nd St Y, Herculessaal, and the Library of Congress, among others. Marie has collaborated with artists such as Gilbert Kalish, Juilliard and Pacifica Quartets and members of the Emerson Quartet.
Marie’s solo recitals have been broadcast on NPR and her Concerto appearances have been broadcast on CBC Radio Canada. Presently, Marie is an Associate Professor of Violin at Northern Illinois University.
About Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
Russian-born pianist Oksana Ejokina appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. Oksana is the pianist of the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide. A sought-after teacher, Ejokina is Chair of Piano Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. She has been associated with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for nearly fifteen years serving as Artistic Director of several flagship classical music programs.
https://www.plu.edu/music/staff/oksana-ezhokina/