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May 28, 2012 |
Scotia Festival Chamber MusicChamber and solo music with violinist Giora Schmidt and pianist John Novacek. |
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Public Radio Music Month
Tune in to KING FM on Friday, April 27, at 8pm PST/11pm EST to hear Joshua perform works by Britten, Frank, Crumb, and Bach. Joshua will also be chatting with local celebrity voice Sean MacLean. The program is part of a month long celebration of Public Radio Music Month, which is a chance for musicians, fans and local stations to spotlight the key role non-commercial radio plays in our nation’s musical life. To promote the performance and awareness of Public Radio Music Month, Joshua and Sean will also be appearing on the television show New Day Northwest on KING 5, on Wednesday, April 25, at 11am PST.
To find out more about Public Radio Music Month, and see other musicians and artists who are voicing their support, check out this letter.
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A Primal Experience – In The Dark
Friday, June 3rd, 2011
If JACK Quartet is playing Georg Friedrich Haas’ String Quartet no. 3 “In iij. Noct” anywhere within a six-hour drive from your location, this is something that should not be missed. In early May, the Quartet (JACK is John, Ari, Chris, and Kevin) joined me out in Seattle to perform on my chamber music series, TownMusic. For the concert we continued this season’s composer/performer theme, and had several works by members of the quartet played along with pieces that have inspired them – such as Ligeti’s Second String Quartet and Xenakis’ Tetras. I was lucky enough to join them and premiere Ari’s arrangement of five-voice madrigals by 16th Century composer Gesualdo. As expected, the concert was dynamic, powerful, and even polarizing. I’ve seen the group perform several times in the last couple of years, and from the first minute I knew they had something unique.
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