The SCMS Lecture Series deepens your understanding and appreciation of classical music by exploring the history, analysis, and nuances of select chamber works performed at Seattle Chamber Music Society. By exploring the history, analysis, and nuances of select chamber music works, the series helps deepen your understanding and appreciation of classical music.
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Center for Chamber Music, Kennan Hollingsworth Living Room
Lecturer: Michael Kannen
Cellist Michael Kannen turns his attention to the way in which composers use form to bring their musical creations to life. Works from the first week of the Winter Festival, including those by Schubert, Kodaly and others, will be discussed.
This event is free but registration is required.
Date: Thursday, January 23
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Zoom
Lecturer: Michael Kannen
Cellist Michael Kannen turns his attention to the way in which composers use form to bring their musical creations to life. Works from the first week of the Winter Festival, including those by Schubert, Kodaly and others, will be discussed.
This event is free but registration is required.
Date: Thursday, January 26
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Online, Zoom
Lecturer: Michael Kannen
Cellist Michael Kannen looks at why it is that Johann Sebastian Bach towers over Western music, in anticipation of the monumental complete performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in week two of the Winter Festival.
This event is free but registration is required.
Date: Thursday, January 26
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Center for Chamber Music, Kennan Hollingsworth Living Room
Lecturer: Michael Kannen
Cellist Michael Kannen looks at why it is that Johann Sebastian Bach towers over Western music, in anticipation of the monumental complete performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos in week two of the Winter Festival.
This event is free but registration is required.
Cellist Michael Kannen has distinguished himself as a musician and educator of uncommon accomplishment who is comfortable in widely diverse musical situations and venues. He was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet and for seven years performed with that group on concert stages around the world, on radio and television, and on recordings. During those years, the Brentano Quartet was awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, a Royal Philharmonic Award and was the first participant in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II program.
Mr. Kannen continues to perform chamber music around the country as a member of the Apollo Trio, on period instruments with the Houston-based group Context and at major music festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Portland Chamber Music Festival and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Mr. Kannen has collaborated with such artists as Jessye Norman, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Sergiu Luca, Donald Weilerstein, Pamela Frank, Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Frankl, Paula Robison, David Krakauer, Jörg Widmann, Steven Isserlis, and with jazz artists Michael Formanek and Uri Caine. His activities range from performances on period instruments to premieres of the music of our time. He has recorded for the CRI label. Mr. Kannen has served on the faculties of Dartmouth College and the Purchase College Conservatory and he is currently the Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where he holds the Sidney Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music.
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