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Seattle, WA ­‑ Early Music Seattle is thrilled to present an original program, Six Dresden Concertos with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra directed by Alexander Weimann along with concert master Rachell Ellen Wong. This concert continues the theme introduced in an earlier concert of the musical world of Johann Georg Pisendel (1687-1755) and also follows EMS’

Hopkinson Smith: Bright & Early The “supreme poet of the lute” (Gramophone) creates a subtle, intimate dialogue between Dalza and Spinacino, witnesses of the instrument’s flourishing culture in Italy at the dawn of the 16th century, in an album to be released on Naïve Classiques on February 3. “Certainly the continued presence on this earth

Ran Blake, a jazz improvisation teacher of mine, once told me that when we meet the right people to play with we should never leave them.  I am so fortunate to have had many musicians, friends and musical partners throughout my life and career, but one is very special -Belladonna Quartet Belladonna formed by myself