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Seattle Chamber Music Society 31St Season SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY 31ST SEASON 2012 ANNUAL REPORT OUR MISSION Seattle Chamber Music Society fosters the appreciation of chamber music in our region by presenting performances featuring world-class musicians in accessible and inviting formats, with an emphasis on developing a broad-based sustainable audience through education and community outreach. SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY CONTENTS // Letter from the President 4 2012: The Season in Review 5 Engaging the Community 9 Ensuring Our Artistic Vision & Stability 14 Sponsors and Donors 15 Board of Directors and Staff 19 2012 Financial Report 20 2012 Summary of Activities 21 Festival Musicians 23 COVER: From left to right; violinists James Ehnes and Amy Schwartz Moretti, violist Richard O’Neill, and cellist Robert deMaine 2012 ANNUAL REPORT // 3 Our recently completed 2012 season was the first to be programmed by new Artistic Director James Ehnes, who has continued the high standards set by SCMS founder Toby Saks. Our Winter Festival was a great success with full houses at every concert. More tickets were sold at the Summer Festival in July than have ever been sold in our 31-year history. Our first-ever free outdoor concert in Volunteer Park in July drew an astounding 1,800 people! Concert reviews were uniformly enthusiastic; our performances are now widely recognized as some of the best in the country. Seattle Chamber Music Society lost a dear friend this year with the untimely passing of board member Max Gellert. Max’s reach in the Seattle arts community was broad and he will be missed. We dedicated our 2012 Summer Festival to Max, whose thoughtful questions and quiet generosity provided support and guidance for many years. These are trying times for Seattle arts organizations. Once reliable contributions from foundations and corporations have declined, and the poor economy has adversely affected ticket sales for many organizations. Despite this environment, SCMS finished in the black in fiscal 2012, no small accomplishment! With very strong finances, a talented board of directors, a skilled and dedicated staff, and a brilliant young new Artistic Director, the future of SCMS is indeed bright. We have set up a Foundation for our endowment that will ensure our financial stability long into the future. Winter Festival will expand from four concerts to six in 2013. The Board of Directors has approved a Strategic Plan to help meet the artistic vision of James Ehnes. Of course, none of this would be possible without the ongoing generous support of our enthusiastic patrons, and for that we are most grateful! JOHN F. CRAMER Board President 4 // SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY 2012: SEASON IN REVIEW // The inaugural season for our new Artistic Director, James Ehnes, ushered in many new beginnings for the Seattle Chamber Music Society (SCMS). Carrying on with our long-standing tradition of presenting the highest level of artistry and chamber music programming, Mr. Ehnes also expanded into new territory, introducing audiences to chamber music and musicians never heard before at our Festivals and making this great music more widely accessible throughout our community. Joining the line-up of SCMS stalwarts this season were five artists making their debut with our Festivals: cellists Efe Baltacıgil and Julie Albers, violinist Benjamin Beilman, clarinetist Ricardo Morales, and pianist Marc-André Hamelin. These newcomers shared their amazing talents with our audiences and added freshness and excitement to our Festival concerts. “One of the great joys of this summer series is seeing and hearing new blends of individual musicians. There are characters like violist Marcus Thompson, who has been around this festival approximately forever, next to relative newcomers like the brilliant cellist Julie Albers, a bow’s length from the young but accomplished artistic director/violinist James Ehnes, all backed by Andrew Armstrong on piano.” –MELINDA BARGREEN The Seattle Times For each concert at the 2012 Winter and Summer Festivals, Mr. Ehnes programmed at least one work never performed before at our Festivals. Our Community Engagement and Education programs provided more ways to enjoy great chamber music in free and informal formats, including our first-ever live outdoor concert at Volunteer Park. Thanks to the incredible support from our loyal patrons and dedicated, hard-working Board and staff, SCMS was able to present these concerts and programs with deft fiscal oversight and management to end the year in the black with no accumulated deficit. ABOVE: Artistic Director James Ehnes 2012 ANNUAL REPORT // 5 “It’s a good example of the gratifying novelty Society director James Ehnes is bringing to the summer festival; he’s finding a good balance between familiar fare—the musical equivalent of beach reading—and intriguing discoveries.” GAVIN BORCHERT Seattle Weekly WINTER FESTIVAL: FEBRUARY 2-5 The perfect tonic to chase away the winter blues, the 2012 Winter Festival presented a compact week of exhilarating chamber music repertoire performed by 12 world-class musicians, all returning Festival regulars, who brought to the concerts “an exciting level of artistry” full of “focused, assured, and inspiring music making.” (The Seattle Times) Over 2,000 people attended the first Winter Festival programmed by new Artistic Director James Ehnes who was warmly welcomed opening night with “a jam-packed house and a chorus of hoots, applause and shouts of approval” (Melinda Bargreen). The Festival included three main concerts and a special recital with violinist James Ehnes and pianist Andrew Armstrong. In addition to popular chamber music repertoire and lesser-known gems, audiences were treated to seven masterful works by Shostakovich, Brahms, Strauss, Bartók and Dvořák never before performed at our Festivals. The Festival was enthusiastically received, with thrilling performances one after another that left audiences “eagerly awaiting the first full month’s festival to be programmed by James Ehnes for this coming summer.” (Seen and Heard International) SUMMER FESTIVAL: JULY 2-29 The 31st season of the Summer Festival attracted 5,711 people to its 12 main concerts, filling Nordstrom Recital Hall to near full capacity. The Festival featured the talents of 37 exceptional artists—soloists with major orchestras, recitalists in the world’s capitals, principals of leading orchestras, and prizewinners at international competitions. A “scorching Bartók” opened the Festival with a “smoking hot” performance by violinist James Ehnes and pianist Jon Kimura Parker, who “sounded as if they were inventing the music as they go, so spontaneous is their musical partnership.” (Melinda Bargreen) Showcasing the vastness and richness of chamber music repertoire, programming included traditional masterpieces, a world premiere commissioned by SCMS’s Commissioning Club, and 20 works never performed before at our Festivals by such great masters as Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Beethoven, Saint-Saëns, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartók, Dvořák and Debussy. Throughout the month of July, Festival concerts “hit one high note after another” and closed with a truly grand performance of a Prokofiev rarity, the recently reconstructed complete ballet music Trapeze, with “a lineup of artists who expertly plumbed the drama and excitement of this neglected score” to make it an absolute triumph. (Melinda Bargreen) 6 // SEATTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY COMMISSIONING CLUB “The expectation level is high SCMS’s Commissioning Club presented the world premiere of Quartet at this festival, producing for Piano and Strings by Canadian composer and two-time Juno award constant gems as they nominee Gary Kulesha at the 2012 Summer Festival. This was the sixth have. But the musicians all new work commissioned by the Club, which started in 2006 to support seem very comfortable with the creation of one new chamber work each year from an established, excellence, which makes the accomplished composer. experience a joy.” Commissioning Club members were invited to learn more about JOHN SUTHERLAND Kulesha’s compositional process and musical influences through three The Seattle Times Commissioning Club Salons held throughout the season by SCMS’s Education Programs Manager Jeremy Jolley, a composer himself with a Masters in Composition from University of Washington. Gary Kulesha “Inside the hall, it was joined members for the final salon in May to discuss his commissioned smoking hot—especially piece with musical examples. when James Ehnes and Jon Kimura Parker took the stage to play Bartok in this OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS opening program of the 31st Seattle Chamber Music Patrons enjoyed great chamber music and mingling with Festival Society’s Summer Festival.” musicians on a more intimate level at two House Concerts in private residences, with performances by cellist Edward Arron and pianist MELINDA BARGREEN Jeewon Park in the fall, and violinist Augustin Hadelich and pianist The Seattle Times Andrew Armstrong in the spring. SCMS’s first-ever auction event was held at Mt. Baker Community Club in June, with 85 friends and supporters raising over $40,000 for our organization. The event included a sit-down buffet dinner, silent and live auction, wine ring toss, dessert dash, and paddle-raising to support our Community Engagement and Education Programs. ABOVE: Clockwise from left: violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti, violist Che-Yen Chen, cellist Julie Albers, and oboist Nathan Hughes 2012 ANNUAL REPORT // 7 Festival concert featuring violinist James Ehnes, pianist Andrew Armstrong and clarinetist
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