For over 20 years, I've played violin and saxophone with friends and musicians from ensembles including the Seattle Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Princeton University Orchestra and Jazz Ensembles, Rivers Conservatory, and Boston Youth Symphonies.
Music has taken me around the world, including performances across the United States and in Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Ireland.
Upcoming performances
June 18, 2022 @ 2pm Benaroya Hall
Seattle Philharmonic presents: "Serene cheer and warm sunshine: Brahms Symphony No. 2"
To continue this significant season in the Philharmonic's history, the orchestra will perform Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 2, the sunniest of its composer's four symphonies and a perennial audience favorite. Adding to the luster of the program is the local debut of eminent violinist Joanna Kurkowicz, the leading exponent of the violin music of Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969), whose Violin Concerto No. 4 will round out the season's lineup of U. S. premieres. The program opens with the Northwest premiere of Margaret Bonds' Montgomery Variations, written in tribute to the march for equal voting rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King in 1965.
July 9, 2022 @ 2pm Benaroya Hall
Seattle Philharmonic Pops Concert
The Philharmonic presents a special summer concert with an emphasis on works with an established popular appeal. Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet, classical music's most widely-known evocation of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, shares the bill with another Russian blockbuster, Prokofiev's alternately bold and lyrical Piano Concerto No. 1, performed by one of our major local artists, pianist Anastasia Solomatina. The 150th anniversary of the birth of Ralph Vaughan Williams will be celebrated via his jaunty English Folksong Suite. Finally, in the best "pops" tradition, the orchestra will play a handful of works by America's leading composer of "light" works, Leroy Anderson.
