There is indeed a new string quartet in town, one that is aiming to perform great classical music in a non-traditional space. That quartet is Mousai Remix, and it’s made up of four players from the Oregon Symphony (Shin-young Kwon and Emily Cole, violins; Jennifer Arnold, viola; and Marilyn de Oliveira). If you don’t think
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Saturday night was the performance at The Seasons performance hall in Yakima, Washington. It was a great chance to play wonderful music with great friends and colleagues, especially violinist Denise Dillenbeck (nee Huizenga), who was formerly a violinist with the Oregon Symphony and founding violinist of the Ethos Quartet with Lisa Hansen, myself, and Heather
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Tomorrow night (Saturday) I’m joining OSO colleagues former and current for a concert at a wonderful venue in Yakima, Washington called The Seasons. The concert is entitled Classically Romantic, and features three blockbuster works from three different eras of music history. The first work on the program is J.S. Bach’s magnificent and incomparable Chaconne from
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This past week has been slow for the Oregon Symphony, but I’ve been quite busy with rehearsing and performing with 45th Parallel, one of Portland’s newest chamber music collaborations, now in its second year. It was especially nice to get the chance to work musicians with whom I haven’t had the chance to share the
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