Rachel Barton Pine | violin
Billboard-chart topping violinist Rachel Barton Pine is a leading interpreter of the great classical masterworks, thrilling audiences with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and emotional honesty. With an infectious joy in music-making and a passion for connecting historical research to performance, Pine transforms experiences of classical music. Pine performs with …
Michael Stern | conductor
Conductor Michael Stern is in his eighth season as music director of the Kansas City Symphony, hailed for its remarkable artistic growth and development since his tenure began. The Kansas City Symphony’s second CD for award-winning audiophile label Reference Recordings, titled Britten’s Orchestra, won a 2011 Grammy award in the …
Portland Baroque Orchestra
Emerging in the early 1980s as a grassroots cooperative of musicians in the Pacific Northwest, the Portland Baroque Orchestra has matured as a polished, professional ensemble within the ranks of the best period-instrument orchestras in North America and Europe. Succeeding Ton Koopman, Monica Huggett has been Portland Baroque’s artistic director …
Seattle Opera
Founded in 1963, Seattle Opera is one of the leading opera companies in the United States. The company is recognized internationally for the quality of its productions and as the pre-eminent presenter of Wagner’s opera in the United States. While under the direction of its founding general director Glynn Ross, …
Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne is one of Britain’s foremost musicians, renowned for his idiomatic approach to a wide variety of repertoire from the mainstream classical works of Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms to the rarefied worlds of Messiaen, Tippett and Britten. His numerous awards include a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the instrumental …
