Music by Mozart, Dvorak and others will be performed at Sunday’s Port Gardner Bay Chamber Music Society concert in Everett.
| Where to hear it
Port Gardner Bay Chamber Music Society: 3 p.m. Sunday, Hartley Mansion, 2320 Rucker Ave., Everett. Tickets, $8-$10, by reservation, call 425-353-7311. Chopin Extravaganza: The Northwest Chamber Orchestra and pianist Craig Sheppard, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Tickets, $35, $30 senior, $25 student, 206-343-0445. |
The concert, which is the last in the 2004-05 series, takes place at the historic Hartley Mansion on Colby Avenue.
The featured performer is clarinetist Steve Noffsinger, who will be joined by five other artists in a concert titled “The Clarinet and Friends.”
Noffsinger is a frequent soloist and recitalist in the Seattle area and has performed as principal clarinet with the Everett Symphony, joining the orchestra on its 2000 tour of Italy. He is a member of the , and the Seattle Gilbert &Sullivan Society.
Joining him will be Patrick Stephens, piano; Erica Brewer and Nicola Shangrow, violin; Joseph Kempisty, viola; and Jennifer Ellison, cello.
Sunday’s program includes Francis Poulenc’s “Sonata”; “Elegy for Ray &Dale” by Paul Steinberg; Dvorak’s String Quartet in F Major and Mozart’s Quintet in A Major.
A reception with the musicians follows the performance in the third-floor ballroom of the Hartley Mansion.
All Chopin: The Northwest Chamber Orchestra and the Chopin Society have teamed up for weekend concerts they have titled “Chopin Extravaganza.”
Chopin’s piano works are renowned for their technical brilliance, and Seattle pianist Craig Sheppard will show why in an all-Chopin program with the orchestra on Saturday and Sunday at the Illsley Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya Hall.
Joseph Silverstein conducts the orchestra in a program that includes Chopin Piano Concerti Nos. 1 and 2. Sheppard begins each program with Chopin’s F minor “Fantasy” Opus 49.
Clarinetist Steve Noffsinger performs Sunday in Everett.
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