The joy of excellent chamber music

The joy of excellent chamber music

Concert Review

The Islands' Weekly Eastsound, WA August 20, 2014

Pablo Ziegler

From Lincoln Center to Lopez Center. That was the route of the Pablo Ziegler Classical Tango Quartet who played to a full Lopez Center audience on August 10.

Ziegler’s artful piano pieces included a World Premiere performance for four hands with Jon Kimura Parker; Hector Del Curto’s bandoneon cried and murmured and warbled love and anguish; Jisso Ok’s astonishing cello danced with her lithe movements and captured the audience; Pedro Giraudo’s double bass played skillfully with the ears of listeners.

Visiting cellist Bion Tsang had people whispering of Yo Yo Ma; Owen Kotler’s clarinet transported us to a Manhattan jazz club; and Aloysia Friedmann’s viola dreamed us into Oblivion.

On Lopez it took not two to tango, but 200 supporters including 73 Lopezians from the Alexanders to Zapalac and 14 businesses and organizations, plus the 170 concert goers who purchased tickets to bring this amazing music here.

Bravo Lopez, thank you for supporting excellent chamber music on Lopez! Let’s do it again next year!

By Micki Ryan

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Performance Today

Performance Today

Bion Tsang is on American Public Media's Performance Today for the second time this month. Bion's performance of the Rossini’s Duetto in D Major with double bassist DaXun Zhang will be broadcast on the Monday, July 21, 2014 show. The recording was made during a marathon concert in Bates Recital Hall in Austin, TX on Friday, September 14, 2012 celebrating Bion's first ten years at the UT Butler School of Music.

Performance Today is America's most popular classical music radio program; the show is broadcast on 293 public radio stations across the country and reaches approximately 1.4 million listeners each week. For more specific information regarding broadcast times near you, please see the PT station list. The show audio is also available on at the PT website, beginning at 9 a.m. ET and for seven days following the broadcast.

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Musical Chairs

Musical Chairs

On Friday, July 25, at 7 PM PST, Bion Tsang appears on Classical KING FM 98.1 Seattle's Musical Chairs. On Friday nights, host Michael Brooks chats with a member of the Pacific Northwest classical music community and plays some of their favorite works, sharing stories and background: fascinating people sharing great music. Listen online at king.org.

Founded in 1948 by Dorothy Stimson Bullitt, Classical KING FM 98.1 is among the longest-running classical radio stations in the United States. Today, it is consistently ranked as one of the top 5 American classical radio stations.

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Performance Today

Performance Today

Bion Tsang is back on American Public Media's Performance Today. Bion's performance of the Mozart Sonata for Bassoon and Cello in B Major, K. 292, with bassoonist Kristin Wolfe Jensen will be rebroadcast on the Tuesday, July 8, 2014 show. The recording was made during a marathon concert in Bates Recital Hall in Austin, TX on Friday, September 14, 2012 celebrating Bion's first ten years at the UT Butler School of Music and was originally broadcast by APM on Thursday, September 12, 2013.

Performance Today is America's most popular classical music radio program; the show is broadcast on 293 public radio stations across the country and reaches approximately 1.4 million listeners each week. For more specific information regarding broadcast times near you, please see the PT station list. The show audio is also available on at the PT website, beginning at 9 a.m. ET and for seven days following the broadcast.

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Violin Channel

Violin Channel

Bion Tsang is on The Violin Channel with rising star Rennosuke Fukuda, who was recently awarded 1st prizes in the Junior Division of the 2013 Kloster Schöntal and 2014 Menuhin International Violin Competitions.