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upcoming | past performances
Saturday, January 26, 2008, 3:00PM
Ilsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Benaryoa Hall
Seattle Chamber Music Festival Winter Interlude
The Sounds of Winter
Winter has inspired many great composers to celebrate the season of snow and cold.
Join the Saint Helens String Quartet in a musical tribute to winter:
Tchaikovsky's "Winter Dreams" from Symphony No.1
Vivaldi's "Winter" from the Four Seasons
Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Sugar Plum Fairies" from the Nutcracker
Quartets from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius
Music from Disney's classic "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"
Learn about instruments of the string quartet with an opportunity to see the instruments up close onstage after the concert.
Musical instrument petting zoo, courtesy of Music Center of the Northwest, in the lobby before the concert.
Ticket Information available at Seattle Chamber Music Society
Sunday, June 3, 2007, 2:00PM
Ilsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall
Benaroya Hall
Presented by The Seattle Symphony
Bridging the 48th Parallel Festival
Tempo of Recollection
Created and directed by Nick Schwartz-Hall
Choreographed by Sheila Daniels
Featuring the Saint Helens String Quartet performing Schulhoff's String Quartet #2
Jose Gonzales, Actor & Piano
Robin Johnson, Mezzo-Soprano
Peter Mack, Piano
Mover/Dancers:
Ben Burris
Esra Guler
Dylan Sladky
Miriah Ware
Free Admission
SAINT HELENS STRING QUARTET WINS JACK STRAW RESIDENCY GRANT
Jack Straw Productions is a community-based resource for the audio arts, providing Northwest artists access to the state of the art studio production facilities. Since 1994, Jack Straw has selected eight artists each year to receive 20 hours of studio recording and production time with a Jack Straw engineer through their Artist Support Program.
The Saint Helens String Quartet was selected from over 60 applicants to participate in this special program.
The Quartet plans to use their 20 hours to record their first CD and to re-record a piece written for the Quartet by former music department chair Laura Kaminsky titled Transfigurations II: Music for a Changing World. They also plan to record Swing Low Variations, a piece written for the Quartet in 2004 by Ken Benshoof through a grant from 4Culture. Swing Low Variations will be included in Wheat; a documentary film by Warner Blake about the vanishing wheat families of Eastern Washington.
In addition to the 20 hours of studio time, the Saint Helens String Quartet will be able to participate in Jack Straw's Meet the Artist evening where the group performs and then discuss completed work with an audience.
The Erwin Schulhoff Festival
January 18-28, 2007
Thursday-Sunday, January 18-21, 2007
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Tempo of Recollection
Created and directed by Nick Schwartz-Hall
Choreographed by Sheila Daniels
Produced by the Cornish Music Series
Featuring the Saint Helens String Quartet
performing Schulhoff's String Quartet #2
Jose Gonzales, Actor & Piano
Robin Johnson, Soprano
Peter Mack, Piano
Cornish student performers:
Ben Burris
Esra Guler
Dylan Sladky
Miriah Ware
Thursday-Saturday, January 18-20, 2007, 8PM
Sunday, January 21, 2007, 2 PM
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Single Tickets: $15 general; $7.50 students, alumni and seniors
Festival Pass to all performances: $50 general; $25 students, alumni and seniors
Free to the Cornish College community
Tickets available through Ticket Window at (206) 325-6500
www.ticketwindowonline.com
or at Ticket Window box offices located at Pacific Place, Broadway Market, Pike Place Market and Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center
Tuesday, January 22, 2007, 12 noon
Schulhoff Festival Panel
Panelists to include:
Derek Katz, Asst. Professor UCSB and Czech Music Scholar
Paige Stockley, Cellist and Michael Lieberman, Violist of the Saint Helens String Quartet
Nick Schwartz-Hall, Creator and Director of Tempo of Recollection, Producing Director at Seattle Repertory Theatre
Moderated by Carol Shiffman, Chair of the Cornish Music Department
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Admission Free and open to the public
Friday-Sunday, January 26-28, 2007
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Erwin Schulhoff chamber music festival
Friday, January 26, 2007, 8PM
Members of the Saint Helens String Quartet play
Music of Erwin Schulhoff
String Sextet
with Misha Schmidt, Violin
Mara Gearman, Viola
Amos Yang, Cello
Sunday, January 28, 2007, 7PM
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Music by Erwin Schulhoff
Susi (fox-song) for Stroh Violin and Piano
Duo for Violin and Cello
Concertino for Flute, Viola and Double Bass
5 pieces for String Quartet
All Performances held at:
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Single Tickets: $15 general; $7.50 students, alumni and seniors
Festival Pass to all performances: $50 general; $25 students, alumni and seniors
Free to the Cornish College community
Tickets available through Ticket Window at (206) 325-6500
www.ticketwindowonline.com
or at Ticket Window box offices located at Pacific Place, Broadway Market, Pike Place Market and Bellevue's Meydenbauer Center
Tuesday December 6, 2007, 8pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays final student works for
Scores of Sound
Compositions by students in Bern Herbolsheimer's
composition seminar class
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Admission free.
Sunday August 13, 2006, 5 PM
Saint Helens String Quartet play
Second Summer Sundays in Snohomish
St. Michael's Church Building, Snohomish
Tickets are free but limited, $20 suggested donation, to reserve seats email:
saveaseat@angelarmsworks.com
Tel: 360.568.1000
http://www.angelarmsworks.com/sundays/index.html#august
Tuesday August 8, 2006, 7 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet with narrator Marta Zekan from KING FM
"Mozart the Boy Genius Composer"
Seattle Chamber Music Festival Children Concert
Overake School (Eastside)
Tel: 206/283-8710
www.seattlechambermusic.org
Tuesday July 11, 2006, 7 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet with narrator Marta Zekan from KING FM
"Mozart the Boy Genius Composer"
Seattle Chamber Music Festival Children Concert
Lakeside School
Tel: 206/283-8710
www.seattlechambermusic.org
Saturday, May 20th, 2006, 6:30 pm
Saint Helens Quartet and Cornish Faculty play
John Adams "Gnarly Buttons"
Jennifer Higdon "Southern Harmony"
Janice Giteck "Where can you live safely then? In Surrender."
Made in America Festival/Seattle Symphony
Benaroya Recital Hall
Ticketmaster: (206) 628-0888
Friday, April 7, 2006, 8 pm
Saint Helens Quartet plays the music of George Crumb
"A Little Suite" for solo piano
Dream Sequence (Images II) for violin, piano, cello, percussion and glass harmonica
4 Nocturnes (Night Music 2) for violin and piano
Zeitgeist for two pianos
Adrianna Hulscher, Violin
Paige Stockley-Lerner, Cello
Gunnar Folsom, Percussion
Oana Rusu-Tomai, Piano
Oksana Ezhokina, Piano
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Tickets available at door.
Information: 726-5066
Cornish Box Office: 325-6500
Wednesday, April 27th 2005, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays final student works for Scores of Sound
Compositions by students in Bern Herbolscheimer's composition seminar class
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Admission free.
Friday, April 1st, 2005, 8 pm
Chamber Music of Laura Kaminsky
Saint Helens Quartet plays "Transformations II: Music for a Changing World"
violin/piano duo played by SHSQ violinst Adrianna Hulscher and pianist Oksana Ezhokina.
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Admission Free
Friday, March 25, 2005, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Harry Partch "Two Variations on an Ancient Greek Scale"
Ken Benshoof "Swing Low" (8 Variations on the Old Spritual)
Schnittke "In Memorium"
Dimitri Shostakovich Quartet #4
Peter Schickele Quartet for Violin, Cello, Piano and Clarinet (Stephen Bryant, Paige Stockley Lerner, Peter Mack and Sean Osborn)
Bern Herbolsheimer Piano Quintet "Childworld" with Peter Mack, piano
Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze"
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy
Tickets available at door.
Information: 726-5066
Cornish Box Office: 325-6500
Friday, March 4th, 2005, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
music of Jovino Santos Neto
Native American music scored for string quartet, piano, native flute and vocals.
Kirkland Performing Arts Center
Details: www.jovisan.net
Saint Helens String Quartet records Joe Diebes' "Phantom String Quartet #2", an audio installation at Jack Straw Foundation through March 2005.
"Jack Straw Productions is proud to present String Quartet No. 2, a music installation by New York composer Joe Diebes, with performances by the Seattle-based St. Helens Quartet, in the Jack Straw New Media Gallery from January 14-March 25, 2005. Diebes has created a phantom string quartet - a computer plays a series of short composed passages individually performed and recorded by members of the St. Helens String Quartet; these melodic gestures are endlessly recombined in real time, creating a constantly changing, generative sound field, equal parts intentional and random."
Jack Straw New Media Gallery, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE (SW corner of Roosevelt & 43rd NE in Seattle's University District); (206) 634-0919;
jsp@jackstraw.org; www.jackstraw.org
Saturday, January 29th, 2005, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Janice Giteck "Where can you live safely then? In Surrender."
Henry Cowell "United" Quartet
Laura Kaminsky "Transformations II: Music for a Changing World"
Arvo Part "Fratres"
Bern Herbolsheimer "Childplay", with Peter Mack, piano
UNESCO Unity and Diversity in Religion and Culture Conference
Benaroya Recital Hall
Tickets can be obtained through the conference's website at www.networkforpeace.org
Friday, October 29th, 2004, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays
Harry Partch "Variations on an Ancient Greek Scale"
Ken Benshoof "Swing Low" (8 Variations on the Old Spritual)
Dimitri Shostakovich "Quartet #4"
Sean Osborn "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet #2, The Beatles", with Sean Osborn, composer and clarinet
Peter Schickele "Quartet #1 American Dreams"
Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 8 pm
Saint Helens String Quartet plays final student works for Scores of Sound
Compositions by students in Janice Giteck's composition seminar class
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy Street
Tickets: $12 general, $6 students and seniors
Box Office: 206-325-6500
Info: 206-726-5066
Sunday, April 4th, 2004, 4pm
The Saint Helens String Quartet plays
"Beatle's at 40, <
BR>a Hard Day's Night"
"Paperback Rider"
"Hey Jude"
"And I Love Her"
Sean Osborn "Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet #2, The Beatles", with Sean Osborn,
composer and clarinet
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Theatre
710 East Roy Street
Tickets available through Ticketmaster.
Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 8 pm
The Saint Helens String Quartet plays
works by Cornish Composition Faculty
Janice Giteck "1967" and "Where can you live safely then? In surrender."
Jim Knapp "Canons for String Quartet"
Mykol Colton "Sonnet I - Amoeba for David Stanford"
Bern Herbolsheimer "childsplay" piano quintet
Jovino Santos Neto "Vida e Volta" piano quintet
Margie Pos "Tangogo!!" for quartet, melodica and bass
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Concert Hall
710 East Roy Street
Sunday, February 22, 2004, 7 pm
The Saint Helens String Quartet
with guest pianist, Peter Mack play
Alfred Schnittke "Piano Quintet"
Leos Janacek "Quartet #1, Kreuzer Sonata"
Laura Kaminsky "Duo" for cello and piano
Janice Giteck "Tara's Love Will Melt the Sword" for piano solo
Cornish College of the Arts, PONCHO Concert Hall
710 East Roy Street
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