Friday Evening
Friday, October 16, 2009
7:30 pm
Hilltop Auditorium
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Tickets: $20
Sans Souci
Chamber Ensemble from Seattle
Pre-concert Performance by Brooke Flood and Troy Reardon
About Sans Souci
Harpsichordist George Shangrow is Music Director and founder of Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers. He has been featured guest conductor with the Sapporo (Japan) Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Northwest Chamber Orchestra, and other ensembles and is one of the most prominent and highly respected classical musicians in the Pacific Northwest.
Ronald Patterson, professor of violin at the University of Washington School of Music, was a student of Jascha Heifetz, Eudice Shapiro and Manuel Compinsky. Mr. Patterson has concertized extensively in the United States and Europe since the age of 11, performing in more than 150 solo performances with orchestra. He has been acclaimed for his “skill, authority and imagination” by the New York Times.
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan has performed as soloist in 25 countries, having received international acclaim both as a modern flutist and as one of the foremost specialists on all transverse flutes from the Renaissance through the present. Many works have been written for and premiered by him, including five new flute concerti since 2000.
Violist Roxanna Patterson began her professional career at age 16 with the Fort Worth Symphony and the Forth Worth Opera Orchestras and has appeared with orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, England, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, and the U.S. In 1984 she received the first Special Award from the Princess Grace Foundation and was recently decorated by Prince Rainier of Monaco with Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mérite Culturel.
Douglas Davis was a prizewinner at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition. He has held principal positions with the St. Louis Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Pasadena Symphony. He also played principal cello for many years with the Oregon Bach Festival and at the Bach Academy in Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling. He is presently performing in Seattle as guest principal cello for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
Stephen Provine, violinist, has performed for British royalty in major London venues and throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. Provine has been concertmaster of orchestras including the National Children’s Orchestra, Northern Junior Philharmonic, Bach Society Orchestra, Lowell House Opera Orchestra and Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players. He currently serves as co-concertmaster of Orchestra Seattle.
Pre-concert Performance by Brooke Flood and Troy Reardon
