About the series

Jack Straw Productions and WCF present a series of talks and performances of new music. The series is free to the public. Refreshments are served. Events are wheelchair and special needs accessible. Contact Jack Straw for arrangements at (206) 634-0919.

 

Begun in 1999, the series has offered over 115 free presentations of visiting and local composers and performers to the public.

 

2008 presenters

January 9 - Gust Burns

 

 

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Composer Spotlight

Hope Wechkin

HOPE WECHKIN

CHARISMA

Wednesday, Feb. 13 @ 7:30pm
Jack Straw Productions
4261 Roosevelt Way NE Seattle map FREE

photo: Ingrid Pape-Sheldon

 

Hope Wechkin is a singer, violinist, and composer. She previews her one woman music and theatre piece about a hospital patient who faces down a stream of visitors bearing dour advice, dire predictions, and drastic schemes for healing. With a score influenced by Balkan and classical music, Wechkin delivers a virtuosic performance while simultaneously singing and playing the violin. The evening length show opens at ACT Theatre on Feb. 22, and features text and lyrics by Margaret Shafer. The production is directed by Cathy Madden. more

 

Hope Wechkin is best known to Seattle audiences for innovative and virtuosic pairings of the voice and violin. A well-known interpreter of contemporary vocal literature, she has premiered many works by Northwest composers and is the soprano soloist with Affinity. In 2006 she performed George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children for Seattle Symphony's Made in America festival, and she has appeared with the Contemporary Opera Lab in Winnipeg, Canada. She has also appeared as a soloist with The Esoterics, the Pacific Chamber Ensemble, the Northwest Chorale, and others. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Washington School of Medicine, Ms. Wechkin has studied with Thomasa Eckert, Marianne Weltmann, and Nancy Zylstra in Seattle, and with Josephine Mongiardo in New York.

 

Supporters

Jack Straw ProductionsJack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, City of Seattle’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, Washington State Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, PONCHO, ArtsFund, Seattle Foundation, and individual contributors for their support of Jack Straw Artist Programs.