The Arnica Quartet is presenting their second concert of the season in Portland on Friday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Music Center. The concert is part of the month-long March Music Moderne festival curated by Bob Priest. The concert features music by some of the greatest composers from the 17th – 21st
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The Arnica Quartet returns to Astoria’s intimate venue the McTavish Room for an early January concert of string quartet favorites. The concert takes place on Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 2 p.m. The program will feature two of the most beloved string quartets of the 18th and 19th centuries: Mozart’s Quartet in C major ,
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The Arnica String Quartet will present a concert exploring the differences and similarities of two composers at the beginning of their careers – both past and present – in a concert entitled “Parallels: Music of Daniel Ott & Benjamin Britten”. The concert will take place at the Community Music Center (CMC) Recital Hall (3350 SE
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Needless to say, I overslept. There was a lovely and generous bagel and lox breakfast scheduled at the Strand bookstore, an NYC institution, which is owned by the wife of Senator Ron Wyden, Nancy Bass. But, I missed it. After the last massive chord of the RVW Fourth Symphony faded into the fabled expanse
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Playing anything after a long period of absence is difficult, but it’s my opinion that chamber music – especially the string quartet – is the most difficult to come back to and do well. There are just so many variables among the four instruments, as well as the sheer breadth and difficulty of the repertoire,
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Sunday was one of those days in which I took off my Oregon Symphony hat and put on my freelance violist hat. I was on leave from the pops series, so I was not at the hall for the OSO’s pops matinee on Sunday, but I was at the hall for an evening performance of
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This Sunday the Arnica Quartet will be performing on the Salem Camerata Musica series at the main branch of the Salem Public Library. The concert is at 2:30 in the afternoon, and is free to the public. The big finish piece for the concert is Beethoven’s Op. 59 no. 1 – part of a set
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45th Parallel, a new chamber music series curated by Oregon Symphony violinist Gregory Ewer, presents its inaugural concert on Saturday evening, January 16th at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church in downtown Portland (1422 SW 11th Avenue). Seating is limited, and the concert is likely to sell out, so don’t get turned away at the
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Last night was a bit of a strange concert, at least speaking for myself from my vantage point on the stage. First of all, there was the sobering sight of empty seats in the hall – lots of them. It’s not as though this is a strange program – Brahms d minor piano concerto is
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We had one of our more interesting (in the Chinese curse meaning of the word) rehearsal/performance experiences Sunday afternoon and evening at the state fairgrounds in Salem. We were the backup band for Peter Cetera, lead singer of the band Chicago. First of all, the commute down to Salem was pretty miserable. Pouring rain, and
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This shall be me on this Thursday evening, making my way to the stage for our first concert of the season at Tom McCall Waterfront Park (Thursday, Sept. 3 @ 7pm).
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The day’s final glow from Bastyr dormitory. Photo: © Charles Noble Tonight was the final faculty chamber concert of the 2009 Max Aronoff Viola Institute, a string camp that I started along with University of Puget Sound viola faculty Joyce Ramée back in 1990. It was a great concert on three counts: the quality of
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Tonight was one of those nights where I was intimately reconnected with why I became a performer in the first place. It’s about people. The person the composer, who in their genius rendered their innermost thoughts into sublime music. The person the performer, who studied for years to be able to recreate and interpret that
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Word from Elaine Calder is that the series of three Pink Martini concerts this coming week (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday evenings) have sold in excess of $500,000 worth of tickets. Amazing! It really is a tremendous gift to the Oregon Symphony that Thomas Lauderdale decided to use the Oregon Symphony to make this live recording, rather
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If you’re looking for something to do today that involves great chamber works, then seeing the Arnica Quartet at the Salem Public Library might be just the ticket. What’s more, the concert is FREE! We’re being presented by Camerata Musica of Salem, and the program features three great works for string quartet: Mozart – Adagio
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