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Four hands, 32 strings: Seattle Chamber Music Society’s opener

James Ehnes leads Mendelssohn’s Octet © Jena Poppe

An evening of piano four-hands and Mendelssohn’s Octet launch Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival, with distinct personalities repeatedly braiding into something larger.

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Seattle Chamber Music Society launches its 2025 summer festival

Ehnes Quartet and Beth Guterman Chu © Jorge Gustavo Elias
The Seattle Chamber Music Society opens its 2025 summer festival with a program of striking emotional depth, musical refinement and rapturous ensemble connection.
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A restorative opening night at Seattle Symphony, with French accents

Jan Lisiecki, Ludovic Morlot and the Seattle Symphony © Brandon Patoc
Former music director Ludovic Morlot steps in to open the currently leaderless orchestra's new season with echoes of their shared past and a world premiere.
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An opening night of substance at Seattle’s Chamber Music Festival

Chamber music values and luxury casting with world-class string players enriched this hefty program of an elegiac Bach sonata and valedictory works by Bartók and Brahms.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja's stunning return to Seattle

PatKop gives a life-or-death account of Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Thomas Dausgaard on a programme framed by Scandinavian colours.

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Feddeck channels North Sea in Seattle

James Feddeck conducts the Seattle Symphony in a premiere of Angelique Poteat's cello concerto by plus Britten and Rachmaninov.
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