SCMS Chamber Music in the Park: Dvořák & Brahms

Seattle Chamber Music Society

Saturday, July 29, 2023 @ 7:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)

Volunteer Park, Seattle, WA, United States

Free

Johannes Brahms — Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American"

Chamber Music in the Park brings Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival Concerts outside for FREE evening concerts.

Join us for this beloved tradition at three locations this July!

About Seattle Chamber Music Society

http://www.seattlechambermusic.org/

About James Ehnes, violin

James Ehnes is recognized as one of the world's foremost violinists and is a favorite guest of many of the world's most celebrated orchestras and concert halls. Recent orchestral highlights include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, London Symphony, Gedwandhausorchester Leipzig, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Chicago Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.

http://jamesehnes.com

About Efe Baltacıgil, cello

Principal Cello of the Grammy-winning Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Turkey’s String Player of the Year, 2013, and awardee of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Mr. Baltacıgil is lauded for his risk-taking, passionate performances that immediately capture the heart and imagination.

Recipient of the Peter Jay Sharp Prize, the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, and first prize in concerto competitions of Istanbul, New York, and the Allentown, Pennsylvania Schadt String Competition, Baltacıgil experienced early acclaim as winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Recipient of a bachelor’s degree from the Mimar Sinan University Conservatory in Istanbul and an artist diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, Efe began his professional career in the United States as Associate Principal Cello of the Philadelphia Orchestra before joining the Seattle Symphony as Principal Cello in 2011.

https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/about/artists/strings/efe-baltacigil/