Northwest BachFest September Series

Northwest BachFest announces September concerts of the 2023/24 season, Saturday, September 23 and Sunday, September 24, at Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Avenue in Spokane. Community engagement activities will take place throughout the week of September 18-24.

Northwest BachFest presents Grammy Award Winning Catalyst Quartet (Karla Donehew Perez, violin; Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez, cello) in concert. Grammy-Award winning BachFest Artistic Director Zuill Bailey, cello, will also perform.

It is not quite “routine” for five Grammy Award Winning musicians to take the stage at BachFest concerts, the Catalyst String Quartet makes it seem so after the July concert series with another Grammy winning quartet (Attacca) along with Zuill Bailey.

Saturday, September 23

7:00pm 

The Catalyst Quartet

The Catalyst Quartet with J.S. Bach’s - Goldberg Variations for String Quartet

The first fully realized string quartet version of J.S. Bach’s famous Goldberg Variations was created through a collaborative arranging process by the Catalyst Quartet that created the first fully realized four-voiced version of the Goldberg Variations, originally for keyboard. Catalyst Quartet wrote, “Over the course of a year and half, we researched, arranged, edited, interpreted, RE-interpreted, and RE-edited the entire 30 Variations and Aria. With our eyes set on recording this work, we went to Aldeburgh, England in January 2014. Under the auspices of the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, we workshopped our arrangement with renowned cellist and Bach interpreter Pieter Wispelwey. After two weeks of intense study, we presented the debut of our new arrangement to a very enthusiastic audience at Jubilee Hall. Overall, the project has transformed the way we interpret Bach’s music.”

General Admittance: $40 Students: $10 (Student tickets only at the concert with advance GA purchase.)    

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Sunday, September 24

3:00pm

Spokane Washington

Catalyst Quartet; Zuill Bailey, cello

Catalyst Quartet and Zuill Bailey, cello - Haydn, Glazunov, and Emerging Voices

String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 "Sunrise"   -    Joseph Haydn 

Beautiful Little Gems

Celebrating their 10th Anniversary together as a quartet, the Catalyst Quartet, Sphinx Competition winners (an organization providing career assistance for young Black and Latinx string musicians,) the Catalyst Quartet put together an encompassing program celebrating living composers that Catalyst believes can be world-changing: Black, Latinx, Asian, women, LGBTQ, under-represented composers. These include: Kishi Bashi, Billy Childs, Jessie Montgomery, Andy Akiho, Kevin Puts, Joan Tower, Angelica Negrón, and Caroline Shaw.

Con Brio - Kishi Bashi (b. 1975)

The Face of Past Regret - Billy Childs (b.1957)

Build - Jessie Montgomery (b.1981) 

Presidio - Andy Akiho (b. 1979)

Emerge - Kevin Puts (b. 1972)

A short flight - Joan Tower (b.1938)

Lo infinito - Angelica Negrón (b.1981)

Bittersweet synonym - Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

String Quintet in A minor, Op. 39 – Catalyst Quartet with Zuill Bailey, cello - Alexsander Glazunov

General Admittance: $40 Students: $10 (Student tickets only at the concert with advance GA purchase.)   

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Date: 

September 23-24, 2023 

Location:  Barrister Winery 

1213 West Railroad Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201.

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