James Ehnes’ Seattle Chamber Music Festival opens on 2 July 2018 with Ehnes himself, Benjamin Beilman, Noah Bendix-Balgley and George Li appearing throughout the festival.
Ehnes makes his first appearance at the festival on 9 July performing works by Dvorák and Brahms, and throughout the festival performs pieces by Chausson, Enescu and Elgar as well as the world premiere of James Newton Howard They have just arrived at this level on 16 July. He brings the festival to a close on 27 July with a performance of Bach The Musical Offering.
Beilman opens the festival playing Busoni with Alessio Bax and over the festival performs works by Mozart, Schumann, Brahms.
Li performs in four concerts during the festival. On 2 July he performs Stravinsky Suite italienne with Andrew Wan, and his other performances include a solo recital of Haydn and Chopin and Schumann Piano Quintet with Beilman on 5 July and Schumann Romances for Oboe and Piano with Mary Lynch the following day.
Bendix-Balgley arrives at the festival on 16 July to perform Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano with Max Levison. During the festival he also performs works by Korngold, an evening of Russian-Jewish folk music and finally Franck Quintet for Piano and Strings in F minor on 23 July.