The Highlands Concert Series proudly presents its 2019-20 Season
September 15, 2019: Avery Fisher Career Grant Awardee Kristin Lee, violin.
Kristin Lee joins us after opening the 2018-19 season of the San Francisco Symphony in duo-concerto with the inimitable Itzhak Perlman. A 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant awardee and protégé of Mr. Perlman, Lee’s playing has been compared to that of a young Isaac Stern, possessing a full measure of expression, technique, and nuance.
We enthusiastically welcome Ms. Lee’s return to the Highlands where her outstanding performance in February 2018, led to an immediate invitation to open our 2019-20 season.
The Strad—-”How have I missed Kristin Lee? ...one of the most satisfying recitals I’ve heard in years.”
October 13, 2019: Barker, Quan DiLorenzo, Choe
Join three of the brightest stars of the Grammy-winning Seattle Symphony performing works for flute/piano; cello/piano; and piano trio: Assoc. Prin. Flute, Jeffrey Barker, Asst. Prin. Cello Meeka Quan DiLorenzo, and pianist Jessica Choe.
DID YOU KNOW? Meeka Quan DiLorenzo was admitted to the Cleveland Institute of Music at age 15 and was appointed associate principal cello of the Utah Symphony Orchestra at 21; Jeffrey Barker, as associate principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, is paired, and plays interchangeably, with the fabulous Demarre McGill; and Jessica Choe is an award-winning pianist and one of America's busiest collaborators.
November 17, 2019: This November, we welcome one of the world’s most sought-after concert organists, Felix Hell.
Boasting a 12 CD discography, Felix Hell has been featured as concerto soloist and recitalist in more than 900 halls throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.
The American Organist—-“(Hell) sets standards that older and honored players would struggle to equal.”
February 23, 2020: The award-winning Fry Street String Quartet
This remarkable quartet is hailed as “a triumph of ensemble playing”—- New York Times.
Since securing the Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the quartet has reached audiences from Carnegie Hall to London, and Sarajevo to Jerusalem, exploring the medium of the string quartet and its life-affirming potential with “profound understanding…depth of expression, and stunning technical astuteness”—-Deseret Morning News. We are pleased to welcome the Fry Street Quartet for its Highlands debut.
March 22, 2020: Steinway Artist, Stephen Beus in recital
Pianist Stephen Beus joins us for a much-anticipated return to the Highlands stage. A multi-award-winning artist who has performed in major halls throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, he continues to delight audiences with performances of lightning technique and beautiful phrasing.
Fanfare Magazine—-”(Beus) manages even the densest textures with utmost clarity. Above all, his playing is so natural as to seem effortless and the sound he produces has extraordinary richness and depth, not quite like anyone else's.”
A Spectacular Finale: April 26, 2020: Baltacigil, McGill, Lynch
Three of the orchestral world’s leading instrumentalists join us to cap an extraordinary season. We are proud to present Seattle Symphony Principals Efe Baltacigil, cello; Demarre McGill, flute; and Mary Lynch, oboe; three of today’s most in-demand performers will close our season with individual and ensemble performances in the intimate, acoustically-excellent Florence Henry Memorial Chapel.
DID YOU KNOW? Efe Baltacigil, a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, is a regular concerto soloist with the Seattle Symphony, Gramophone's 2018 Orchestra of the Year, and will perform as soloist in the Masterworks series this season; Demarre McGill, another Avery Fisher awardee, and Mary Lynch are each featured on the Grammy-winning Seattle Symphony's next release---Demarre and Mary, can be heard performing Dalbavie concerti for flute and oboe, respectively, two of the most demanding concerti of the woodwind repertoire.
January 12, 2020
Announcing a special, Non-subscription encore performance by Mr. Dmitry Sinkovsky, countertenor, violinist, conductor extraordinaire.
Subscribers will receive a 10% price reduction and first opportunity to purchase admission to experience the exquisite voice and virtuoso violin performance of one of classical music's fastest-rising stars.
Mr. Sinkovsky is a regular conductor/singer/violin soloist for the Seattle Symphony's Baroque and Wine Series and will be joining us shortly before his 2020 engagement with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.