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Last season, Serenata partnered with SITE Santa Fe for a “cutting edge” series of Friday evenings entitled ‘Riffs & Digressions’, that delicious tension between the original thought or melody and the variance.

These concerts were casual, informative, family friendly and part of our regular subscription season. Our January and February 2020 concerts reflect timely themes of Barriers and Migration.

Sound, as a medium, aesthetically allows us to experience environment as connections between living things, cycles, and rhythms.

Barriers

Feel your way through obstacles and impediments to movement with music from 1995 inspired by Amelia Earhart, the flinty, political and progressive works of Fred Rzewski that offer a space to be angry and reflective, and humanist, downtown composer Eve Beglarian’s idealistic rebellious episode Landscaping for Privacy.

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Migration

Uneven skies and stories of homeland define reality as told and performed by Syrian clarinetist, Kinan Azmeh and Sri Lankan pianist, Dinuk Wijeratne. Captivating and beyond borders, their all original music reflects art in the time of crises.

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Emily Cole

Violin

Emily Cole joined the Oregon Symphony in 2011. An avid chamber musician, Emily is a member of the Mousai Remix string quartet with fellow Oregon Symphony musicians Shin-Young Kwon, Jennifer Arnold, and Marilyn de Oliveira. She has also performed locally with Third Angle Ensemble, fEARnoMUSIC, 45th Parallel, and Northwest New Music. During the summer months, Emily has performed with the Oregon Bach Festival, the Seattle Opera, and the Apollo Music Festival. Emily is on the faculty at Lewis & Clark College; she also coaches chamber musicians with Portland Summer Ensembles and Seattle’s Music Northwest.

Emily earned her M.M. from the University of North Texas, where she held a teaching fellowship and studied with Emanuel Borok. She received her B.M. from the University of Texas at Austin, studying with Brian Lewis. A native of Seattle, Emily was also a longtime student of former Seattle Symphony concertmaster Ilkka Talvi.