Nordic Chamber Music: Finland

Nordic Chamber Music: Finland

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 Quartet
Sarah Pizzichemi & Brandon Vance, violin
Justin Kurys, viola
Willie Braun, cello

On the program:
Catacombs by Carita Holmstrøm
Three Finnish Folk Melodies arr. Esko Järvelä
String Quartet Op. 56, “Voces Intimae” by Jean Sibelius

Skyros Quartet: Sarah Pizzichemi & Brandon Vance, violins, Justin Kurys, viola, & Willie Braun, cello

The 2023 Season of the newly rebranded and reimagined Nordic Chamber Music Series will be produced and underwritten by the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society. If you would like to support this series and ensure its future, please donate here!

Additional support is provided by individual donors and grants from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Seattle Polish Foundation, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and ArtsWA. We are grateful for their support.