Nordic Chamber Music: Finland

Nordic Chamber Music: Finland

Past Events
A Finnish Fiddle Quartet Laura Loge, Artistic Director March 5 at 2 pm Ballard First Lutheran Church (map) Tickets available here $30 General Admission $10 Student/Child Admission Seattle-based Skyros Quartet returns to the Nordic Chamber Music 2023 stage with a concert exploring the vast Finnish repertoire for string quartet. This music is as expansive as the Finnish landscape and the quartet will guide you on an expedition through time and across distances from folk-inspired to romantic to contemporary compositions featuring composers known and unknown. Featuring:The Skyros QuartetSarah Pizzichemi & Brandon Vance, violinJustin Kurys, violaWillie Braun, cello On the program:Catacombs by Carita HolmstrømThree Finnish Folk Melodies arr. Esko JärveläString Quartet Op. 56, "Voces Intimae" by Jean Sibelius Skyros Quartet: Sarah Pizzichemi & Brandon Vance, violins, Justin Kurys, viola, & Willie Braun,…
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Nordic Chamber Music: Nordic Neighbor – Poland

Nordic Chamber Music: Nordic Neighbor – Poland

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A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Laura Loge, Artistic Director January 26 at 7 pmCentral Washington University Concert Hall (map)Free and open to the publicLivestream link here January 29 at 2 pmBallard First Lutheran Church (map)Tickets available here$30 General Admission$10 Student/Child Admission In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Nordic Chamber Music 2023 will present Seattle Chamber Orchestra's founder Lorenzo Marasso's own arrangement of Henryk Gorecki's Third Symphony - A Symphony of Sorrowful Songs for two pianos and soprano, sung in the original Polish. Lorenzo will be joined by pianist Yerin Kim on the second piano and soprano Laura Loge for this moving work originally for orchestra. An exploration of the various transcriptions done by Polish and Nordic composers will round out the program. Featuring:Lorenzo Marasso, pianoYerin Kim, pianoLaura Loge, soprano On…
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Nordic Chamber Music: Norway

Nordic Chamber Music: Norway

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A Norwegian Epiphany Laura Loge, Artistic Director January 8 at 2 pmBallard First Lutheran Church (map)Tickets available here$30 General Admission$10 Student/Child AdmissionSeason Tickets available now! Get all 6 concerts for the price of 5 Celebrate Epiphany enveloped by the festive sounds of trumpet, lur, soprano, organ, and piano and surrounded by holiday decorations. The Nordic Chamber Music 2023 series opens the season, like the arrival of the travelling Magi, exploring the supernatural and divinity of music filled with unlimited possibilities for the future. Joan Paddock and Debra Huddleston will fill the sanctuary with brilliant sounds with trumpet, a traditional Norwegian lur, piano, and organ and will be joined for part of the program by Nordic song and chamber music specialist and soprano, Laura Loge. Featuring: Joan Paddock, trumpet & lur…
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Drama

Drama

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Olav Trygvason & Peer Gynt The Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle (map)Friday, June 9 at 7 pmTickets available here Cross of Christ Lutheran Church, Bellevue (map)Sunday, June 11 at 4 pmTickets available here A collaboration with Puget Sound Concert Opera featuring dramatic music by Edvard Grieg, including selections from Peer Gynt, Before a Southern Convent, Bergliot, Olav Trygvason, and Sigurd Jorsalfar. Featuring:Laura Loge, soprano,Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano,Misha Myznikov, baritone,Rachelle Moss, narrator,John Burkhardt and Steven Luksan, pianoand the PSCO chorus and orchestra,Bernie Kwiram and Abbie Eads, music directors. Laura Loge, soprano Nerys Jones, mezzo-soprano Misha Myznikov, baritone Rachelle Moss, narrator Steven Luksan, piano & Composer-in-Residence John Burkhardt, piano Bernie Kwiram, music director Abbie Eads, music director This season is generously supported, in part, by 4Culture and the City…
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Grieg For Four

Grieg For Four

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Osberg HallNational Nordic Museum, Seattle (map)Sunday, October 23 at 2 pmTickets available here. $30 General, $25 NNM Members, $10 Student/Child W. W. Seymour Conservatory, Tacoma (map)Sunday, October 30 at 4 pmVery limited seating, we recommend getting tickets in advance and early!Tickets available here. $25 General, $10 Student/Child Known for their "innovative and interactive approach to classical music both old and new" (Second Inversion) the Seattle-based Skyros Quartet will bring Edvard Grieg's String Quartets to life. Programmed are both his String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27 and the two finished movements of this String Quartet No. 2 in F major, EG 117 as well as a brief String Quartet by Swedish composer Elfrida Andreé, and the world premier of NWEGS's Composer-in-Residence Steven Luksan's String Quartet based on Norwegian themes. Performed in…
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Flute Fantasy

Flute Fantasy

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Music in the MuseumCascadia Art Museum, Edmonds (map)Saturday, February 11 at 6 pmTickets available here$12 CAM Member, $18 Non-members Saltwater Music SeriesDes Moines United Methodist Church (map)Sunday, February 12 at 2 pmFree and open to the public - suggested donation of $10-20 to support the Saltwater Music Series and a great hand-selected charitable cause. Nordia HouseNordic Northwest, Portland (map)Saturday, February 18 at 7 pmTickets available here $35 General, $25 NN Members, $5 Arts for All Canyon Wren Concert HallIcicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth (map)Saturday, February 25 at 7 pmTickets available here $25 Adult, $10 Student Also tune in to KING FM on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 pm for Northwest Focus Live (View videos - Hildring i speil and "Fables" Suite for Piano No. 3: I. Gangar I…
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Oda Voltersvik Returns

Oda Voltersvik Returns

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Performing at the National Nordic MuseumSunday, March 20, 2022 at 2:00 pmNational Nordic Museum, Seattle (map)Free and open to the public! Norwegian pianist, Oda Voltersvik, returns to the Northwest to amaze us once again with her fireworks on the keys. Oda's concert is co-sponsored by the Seattle Bergen Sister City Association and is part of a US tour.
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Grieg LIVE!

Grieg LIVE!

Concerts & Events, Past Events
Grieg Mini-Concert at Fremont Music Union    Presented by Fremont Music Union   #MusicintheTimeofCoronaVirus Since so many of our other performances have been postponed or cancelled this spring due to the arrival of COVID-19 to our shores, we took the opportunity to perform a short concert while we still could in Seattle. Enjoy what we can offer here until we can get back out there spreading the love of Grieg's music, rather than spreading the virus! As you may be aware, with all performing shut down, arts organizations are using their creativity to keep the music flowing, but without direct ways to recoup our losses from not presenting live concerts. Please consider a donation or becoming a supporting member today to help keep us viable for the long term so we can…
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PEER GYNT

PEER GYNT

Concerts & Events, Past Events
  When: Saturday, June 18, 2022 @ 4:00 pmWhere: Osberg Great Hall at the National Nordic MuseumTickets: $30 museum members, $25 general, $10 student/childTickets available hereUse "GyntStudents" discount code with a General Admission ticket for student/child price   What does it mean to be a human being? How do the decisions we make affect our lives and the lives of those around us? Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg explored these questions in Peer Gynt. The Northwest Edvard Grieg Society and the Thalia Symphony join forces to bring you Grieg's incidental music to Ibsen's immortal play, reviving the larger-than-life characters and epic story of adventure and misadventure in the realms of the mystical and earthly. The concert will feature Norwegian music specialist Laura Loge performing Solveig's beloved songs, the Kathi Ploeger…
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Norwegian Odyssé

Norwegian Odyssé

Past Events
Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 1:30 pm Osberg Hall at the National Nordic Museum (map) $30 General admission $25 Nordic Museum & NWEGS members $10 Students Tickets available here.   Featuring: The Seattle Modern Orchestra, Julia Tai, conductor Laura Loge, soprano Angelo Rondello, piano Valen Trio - Einar Røttingen, piano, Ricardo Odriozola, violin, and John Ehde, cello Join us for a concert that features living composers from Norway. From Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi's mystic sounds to Lasse Thoresen's meditation on Hagen (Garden), Knut Vaage's epic Odyssé, a re-composing of Grieg op. 54, to the kaleidoscopic piano trio SVEV, this concert offers a vast array of Norwegian contemporary music. We will be joined by the renown Valen Trio from Norway, soprano Laura Loge, composer Knut Vaage, and conductor Julia Tai. The concert is in collaboration with Seattle…
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