Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Sizzling Strings & Killer Keys
In person: $40 ($10 ages 6–18) |
Stream: By donation
- Mak Grgic, guitar
- Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival Strings Chamber Orchestra
- Robert deMaine, cello
- David J. Grossman, double bass
- Jeff Thayer, violin
- Cho-Liang Lin, violin
- Aloysia Friedmann, viola
- Daniel Ching, violin
- William Fedkenheuer, violin
- John Largess, viola
- Joshua Gindele, cello
- Illia Ovcharenko, piano
- Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Gioachino Rossini — Duet for Cello and Double Bass in D major
Antonín Dvořák — Terzetto in C major, Op. 74 (for 2 violins & vola)
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet No. 63 in B-flat major, Op. 76, No. 4 "Sonnenaufgang" ("Sunrise")
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Suite for Two Pianos No. 2, Op. 17
Performances on Aug. 13 & 14; the Aug. 14 performance will also be livestreamed.
Pre-concert event one hour before each performance: "Winning a Competition" with Illia Ovcharenko, Jon Kimura Parker, and Aloysia Friedmann (free, open to the public)
About Mak Grgic, guitar
Touted as a "gifted young guitarist" by The New York Times, and "a guitarist to keep an eye on" by the Washington Post, Mak Grgic [GER-gich] is a star on the worldwide stage. An expansive and adventurous repertoire attests to his versatility and wide-ranging interests. From the ethnic music of his native Balkans to extreme avant- garde and microtonal music, his roles as soloist, collaborator, and recording artist are fueled by curiosity, imagination, and boundless energy.
http://www.makgrgic.com/About Robert deMaine, cello
About David J. Grossman, double bass
About Jeff Thayer, violin
About Cho-Liang Lin, violin
About Aloysia Friedmann, viola
About William Fedkenheuer, violin
About John Largess, viola
Violist John Largess began his studies in Boston at age 12 in the public schools, studying with Michael Zaretsky of the Boston Symphony, and later as a student of Michael Tree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1995, he graduated from Yale University to join the Colorado String Quartet as interim violist with whom he toured the United States and Canada teaching and concertizing. The following year he was appointed principal violist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, a position he held until joining the Miro Quartet in 1997. Also an active speaker and writer about all things chamber?musical, in 2004 Mr. Largess was invited to give a week?long audience lecture series as a part of the Eighth International String Quartet Competition at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; he repeated this series in 2007, and will do so again in 2010. With his training in Greek and Latin Literature and his Bachelor's degree in Archeology from Yale University, as well as studies at the Hebrew University in Israel, he has participated in excavations in Greece, Israel, and Jordan. John loves to cook gourmet cuisine, particularly French pastry and fine desserts; luckily, he also enjoys exercising. John is a trained yoga instructor, having studied Vinyasa Power Yoga with Baron Baptiste. He also practices Kundalini, Bikram, and Astanga styles, and teaches yoga at 24 Hour Fitness and the Bodhi Yoga studio in Austin, Texas where he lives. When not standing on his head, he enjoys making his Tibetan Singing Bowl sing. John serves as Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of String Chamber Music at the University of Texas at Austin School of Music.
https://music.utexas.edu/about/people/john-largess