Finisterra and Friends
Jan 24 2010 - 4:00pm
Jan 24 2010 - 6:00pm
Etc/GMT-8
Sunday, January 24 at 4:00 PM Tickets $18
Finisterra: Simon James, Violin, Kevin Krentz, Cello, Tanya Stambuk, Piano
Plus: Mara Gearman, viola and Elisa Barston, violin
Join our treasured "artists-in-residence" and some of the finest string players in Seattle in a multifaceted concert featuring Piano Trio Op. 15 by Smetana, and String Quartet by Shostakovich & Mendelssohn. At The Seasons Music Festival last October, Finisterra debuted both their new violin player, Simon James and one gorgeous movement from the Smetana trio. Both were unqualified successes. The trio ascended into the plane of the great piano trios: three uniquely gifted musicians submitting themselves to draw the greatest possible music from every piece they played.
This quality has always been what sets apart Finisterra from other trios, but with the addition of Seatle Symphony 2nd chair violin, Simon James they get a consistency of tone, a balance of personalities projecting into the music and from stage, and a consistency of musical vision that makes each listening a revelation.
Kevin has recently been named Director of the Methow Valley Music Festival, which has brought him a great understanding of what makes great programming. He is bringing this understanding to his appearances at The Seasons.
For this perfomance, notable sting players from around the Northwest will form a string quartet with Kevin and Simon James and play two notable string quartets from the literature.
These are Elisa Barston, violin, Acting Principal Second Violinist of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Mara Gearman, viola
While still early in her career,Gearman is already an accomplished player with extensive experience in both orchestral and chamber music settings.
Simon James, violin
Australian violinist Simon James performed around the world as a soloist and chamber musician and is currently the Second Assistant Concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he serves as concertmaster of the Seattle Chamber Orchestra and has performed as guest concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony and the Bolshoi Theatre’s production of Swan Lake.
Mr James has performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony on many occasions, and has acted as Concertmaster on many occasions. He has also lead the orchestra of the Seattle Opera in recent productions of “Der Rosenkavalier”, “La Boeheme”, “Julius Ceasar”, the “Flying Dutchman”, ‘Iphegenie en Tauride”, “I Paggliaci”, “I Puritani” and “Aida”
Kevin Krentz, Cello is a native of Atlanta, Georgia. Although he began his musical life as a cellist at 12, he soon dropped the cello to sing for the rest of his youth. He only then decided to devote his energies to the cello at the age of 20 after finally seeing the instrument's potential. \
Kevin was Assistant Principal Cellist for maestro Gustav Meijer in the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the prestigious Chamber Music Ann Arbor Spring Festival as well as the Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the Methow Valley Music Festival among others. In 2008, he was substitute cellist for the reknown Seattle Chamber Players Icebreaker IV festival.
Tanya Stambuk, Piano
On the occasion of her debut at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Ms. Stambuk was hailed as "a player with a powerful technique, ideas of her own, and considerable promise" by the New York Times. Since then, her concert career has taken her across the United States and throughout Western and Eastern Europe.
She has performed with the Orchestre de Toulouse in France, the Virginia Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra in Orchestra Hall, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Lake Charles Symphony and Rapides Symphony Orchestra in Louisiana, Washington's Olympia Symphony, Tacoma Symphony and Oregon's Rogue Valley Symphony.
Price: $18.00
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