Jonathan Dexter (MM ’05), with the Paragon Ragtime Ochestra, appears in Season 7 of PBS Great Performances docuseries Now Hear This with host Scott Yoo. The episode “Everybody Loves Joplin” premieres tonight on PBS and streams for free throgh May 16.
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Katsuaki Arakawa (MM ’26), with his Soha Quartet, both Second Prize and the Audience Prize at the St. Paul String Quartet Competition. Congratulations to Katsu, Mei Liu (violin), Chloe Yofan (violin) and Thomas Gougeon (viola), as well as a big thank you to their coaches, professors Sandy Yamamoto and Joshua Gindele.
For more information, visit www.spsqc.org.
Next week, on Saturday, April 11th, at 2pm PT, in Benaroya Hall, Soohyun Juhn (DMA ’18) takes the solo spotlight with the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra in works by the Boulanger sisters. The program, “In such a night as this: Nocturnes,” features Soohyun performing Lili Boulanger’s Nocturne for Cello and Orchestra and Nadia Boulanger’s Three Pieces for Cello and Orchestra, along with works by Debussy, Mozart, and von Suppé.
Founded in 1944 by George M. Ross, the SPO is led today by Music Director and Conductor Adam Stern, who joined the orchestra for its 60th anniversary season in 2003. More than seven decades after it was founded, the SPO continues to thrive as an assembly of professional and non-professional performers bringing affordable performances of classical music to the community. The orchestra is still composed of accountants, physicians, teachers, homemakers… people from all walks of life who share a love of music.
For tickets, venue and more information, visit seattlephil.org.
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