BMC Matinee Program: Violinist Grant Donnellan headlines Latissimo!
Free
- Grant Donnellan, violin
- Judith Widrig, piano
- David Feingold, guitar
- Eli Schille-Hudson, guitar
Pablo de Sarasate — Spanish Dances, Op. 22
Astor Piazzolla — Histoire du Tango
Joaquín Turina — Selected works
After visiting the British Isles and journeying from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Grant Donnellan continues his travelogue series with "Latinissimo!" – a program for violin, piano, and guitar inspired by Spain and Latin America.
Judith Widrig, David Feingold, and Eli Schille-Hudson join him to perform works by De Falla, Granados, Piazzolla, Sarasate, and Turina. Grant will accompany music selections with a captivating narrative guaranteed to bring sunshine to your day!
Free program preview is on Wednesday, November 1, 10:30am at First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. in Bellingham. Matinees are always free; they are BMC's gift to the community!
Grant's return as our musical travel guide Sounds Sublime! Do join us!
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/widrigjAbout David Feingold, guitar
David Feingold began musical studies in New York with the French Horn and the Piano when he was nine. Before his move to the west, Feingold studied guitar and composition with Ralph Towner for five years during the time that he attended Sarah Lawrence College. David also performed in Master-classes with Christopher Parkening, Jose Tomas, Michael Lorimer, and others.
As a composer, Feingold’s music has aired internationally and his CD The Boardwalk has received critical acclaim. Other guitar works of David Feingold’s have been performed throughout the United States and Canada including his Studies for Guitar, Music from Quixote, Waltz in F (Homage a Ravel).
https://cfpa.wwu.edu/people/guitar