SCMS Artistic Director and violinist James Ehnes talks about the support he received from the Canadian music community, his friendship with pianist Andrew Armstrong, and his ideas for programming the Winter and Summer Festivals at the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

SCMS Festival Artist and cellist Julie Albers discusses the influence of her teacher Richard Aaron, her recordings with pianist Orion Weiss of the music of Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninov, her teaching at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, her work with her siblings in the Albers Trio, and her first year as principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

SCMS Festival Artist and cellist Julie Albers discusses the influence of her teacher Richard Aaron, her recordings with pianist Orion Weiss of the music of Robert Schumann and Sergei Rachmaninov, her teaching at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, her work with her siblings in the Albers Trio, and her first year as principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

SCMS Festival Artist and cellist Bion Tsang discusses his new CD project, 'Bion Tsang at Blue Rock', a collection 19 short virtuoso showpiece for cello and piano featuring Tsang transcriptions for the cello, the influence of his teacher Leonard Rose, his live performance with silent films, and his new cello made by a Texas-based luthier, Wayne Burak.

SCMS Festival Artist and violinist Karen Gomyo discusses her love of chamber music, the string quartets of Joseph Haydn, her upbringing in music and her study with Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School, Profokiev’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 and the power of music during tumultuous human experiences, Kodaly’s Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12, her collaboration with the Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen, her participation on a new documentary on Stradivarius, and her work with Pablo Ziegler and Ensemble performing the music of Astor Piazzolla.

SCMS artist and pianist Anton Nel discusses the music of Debussy, Mozart, Haydn, Brahms, Paganini, Ravel, his radio program Pianoforte on KMFA 89.5 (kmfa.org), his history with the SCMS Festival, his long-time collaboration with cellist Bion Tsang, his musical upbringing in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his teacher Bela Siki.

SCMS artist and cellist Edward Arron discusses his history with the SCMS Festival and his professional focus on chamber music, his collaboration with SCMS artists and pianists Andrew Armstrong and Jeewon Park, his role as artistic director of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, and his mother’s legacy as executive director of Carnegie Hall.

SCMS Festival artist and clarinetist Anthony McGill discusses his recording with the Pacifica Quartet of the Mozart and Brahms clarinet quintets, shares his musical up-bringing, his experiences working with Steven Stucky’s on his 2015 commission by SCMS’s Commissioning Club, Cantus, and talks about his work as Principal Clarinet in the New York Philharmonic as well as his performance for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009.

SCMS Festival artist, violinist and violist, Yura Lee shares her experience as a traveling musician, her recording of the music of Chevalier de Saint-George with the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie (Reinhard Goebel, conducting), her double-career as a violinist and violist and its artistic implications, as well as her passion for food.

Cellist Robert deMaine shares his upbringing in music, his recording of Tchaikovsky’s Ballets, his work as principal cellist of the LA Philharmonic, his work with John Williams on Williams’ cello concerto towards a recently release recording, his own composition works and his work with the Ehnes Quartet.