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The Bellevue Philharmonic brings Kevin Kenner to the Puget Sound as part of the Steinway Series.  Philharmonia Northwest plays a concert next weekend featuring Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict Overture, Mendelssohn’s 1st Piano Concerto, and Schubert’s 3rd Symphony.  The Ebene Quartet is in town this week too as part of the Seattle Symphony’s on-going cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets.

Camerata Northwest, a Portland based chamber music organization is coming through town this weekend and is playing at the Good Shepherd Center in Wallingford (one of my favorite music venues).  Oregon Symphony member and fellow blogger, Charles Noble, will be in town with the group.  On the program is an assortment of French chamber music.  Seattle audiences haven’t always embraced French chamber music.  This writer, however, is looking forward to the concert.

At the end of the week, Leonard Slatkin makes debuts with the Seattle Symphony.  The newly minted music director of the Detroit Symphony is bringing Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, a piece the Seattle Youth Symphony tackled with aplomb, Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto.

Storm from Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes ; Columbia University Symphony

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