Affinity Chamber Players
Upcoming Event
Saturday, June 20 @ 8pm
Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, 4th Floor in Seattle map
$5-$15 sliding scale
The ensemble premieres works by Northwest composers, including Sarah Bassingthwaighte Hacia el sueno, a new pice by Chris Stover, Ryan Hare's Chamber Concerto, Clifford Dunn's A New Role for Leadership in the Dawn of a New Era (chamber ensemble and electronics), and Brad Sherman's At the Precipice.
Affinity Chamber Players
Founded in 1998, Affinity Chamber Players deploys an instrumentation of woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion, piano, and voice. Guest artists augment the ensemble. Affinity Chamber Ensemble is led by co-artistic directors Sarah Bassingthwaighte and Brad Sherman.
Affinity has appeared in the Seattle Symphony’s Fusion and Made in America festivals, Moore Theater’s New Music Showcase, and the Myra’s War project at the University of Washington. Members have been heard throughout North America, Europe, and Israel. They have held positions at Seattle University, Washington State University, as composer-in-residence at the Max Aronoff Viola Institute and the Boise Chamber Fortnight. They are graduates of Oberlin, Eastman, Indiana University, and the University of Washington.
Members have studied with Stuart Dempster, Joël-François Durand, Richard Karpen, William O. Smith, Diane Thome, and Carol Wincenc. They have won awards from ASCAP, the Composer’s Guild, and concerto competitions, and have recordings on the Centaur, CCMC, and Present Sounds labels.
