Musical performance in Shoreline Friday supports Music4Life program

Two prominent professional musicians will perform in Shoreline on Friday evening, November 8, 2013.  Korean-American pianist Jessica Choe will be joined by Turkish cellist Efe Baltacigil, Principal Cello of the Seattle Symphony. The two world-class musicians will perform beginning at 7:30pm at the Richmond Beach Congregational Church, located at 1512 NW 195th St in Shoreline. Tickets are $20 at the door and will benefit the Shoreline Schools Music4Life™ program.

“This will be a rare opportunity to hear these fine musicians,” says Shoreline resident and concert organizer Lee Craig.  “Their performance will feature works by Shostakovich, Bach and Saint-Saens.”

Jessica Choe is a graduate of the Julliard School and Peabody Conservatory and has performed at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse, France, I Tatti in Florence, Italy and other prominent recital halls.  She is a prominent chamber musician in the Pacific Northwest and formerly a company pianist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Efe Baltacigil was born in Istanbul and received his Bachelor’s degree from Mimar Sinan University Conservatory from there in 1998 and an Artist Diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2002.  Baltacigil performed with Pinchas Zukerman, Midori and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall for Isaac Stern’s memorial, and participated in Mr. Ma’s Silk Road Project.  He joined the Seattle Symphony in 2011–2012 season.  His concerto debuts include the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Istanbul Symphony. In March 2014 Baltacigil will perform the illustrious Dvorak cello concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. 

 “This is a concert for both adults and children,” Craig says. “Any adults who happen to have musical instruments they’re no longer using can bring them to donate to the Shoreline Schools Music4Life program.  We’re off to a great start in acquiring musical instruments that can be used by students of low income families.”

The Shoreline Schools program acquires used musical instruments from adults who no longer use them, gets them fully repaired and donates them free of charge to Shoreline Schools for use primarily by students from low income families. The Shoreline program is supported by the Rotary Club of Shoreline and Shoreline Breakfast Rotary. Music4Life also operates other programs for Seattle and Highline Public Schools.

For more information or to donate an instrument to Shoreline Schools Music4Life, contact David Endicott, 206-409-3275 or go to the website.