Erica Miner

1 week ago | classicalvoiceamerica.org | Erica Miner

Kinetic. Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin. Planet M Records (PMB-006). Total time: 68:53. DIGITAL REVIEW — Each of the inventive pieces featured on Kinetic, a new CD of largely 21st-century pieces performed by Pacific Northwest Ballet concertmaster and solo violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, is connected to dance in delightful ways.

1 month ago | bachtrack.com | Erica Miner

Peter Oundjian is familiar to Seattle Symphony audiences for his masterful conducting, but he also is known internationally as an outstanding violinist, professor of music and artistic advisor. His inventive program last weekend represented three youthful elements: one of Mozart’s most sublime piano concertos performed by prodigious talent, Jan Lisiecki; a new work by up-and-coming American composer Brian Raphael Nabors; and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps.

2 months ago | bachtrack.com | Erica Miner

An international roster of singers and creatives brought a bold, new-to-Seattle production of a time-honored classic. Directors Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky, with mixed-media British-based theater group 1927, created an action-packed, daringly conceived ride through Komische Oper Berlin’s Vaudevillian version of Mozart and Schikaneder’s world of heroes, birdcatchers and vengeful queens. Paul Barritt's hand-drawn animations are combined with silent film aesthetics.

2 months ago | bachtrack.com | Erica Miner

Seattle Symphony Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot continued his celebration of the music of his native France with two pieces commemorating the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth, combined with a work of Fauré and the world premiere of a new, much anticipated opus by Benjamin Attahir. Fauré’s suite assembled from his incidental music to Pelléas et Mélisande was a gentle beginning.

Jan 23, 2025 | broadwayworld.com | Erica Miner

An intrepid British fringe opera company and its dauntless conductor-arranger have taken on a bold project that has defeated any number of high-profile companies. In their groundbreaking Der Ring des Nibelungen, Regents Opera conductor Ben Woodward and his director Caroline Staunton are bringing Wagner into the 21st century with an innovative distillation of Wagner’s original four-opera cycle.