Anacortes Early Music presents Party of Three

Andy Warhol famously said: “One’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party.”
Truer words could not be said about Beethoven’s String Trios – the three independent
voices entwine to create a rollicking good time. The program also includes trios by
Hyacinthe Jadin and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger with Beethoven’s Op. 3.

The concert features the inaugural winner of Seattle’s Gallery Concerts’ “Next
Generation Competition,” violinist Rachell Ellen Wong. Originally from Seattle, Ms.
Wong has received much acclaim, including the prestigious Avery Fisher Career
Grant in 2020. A rising star on both the historical performance and modern violin
stages, she has performed with Academy of Ancient Music, Bach Collegium Japan,
Seattle Symphony, among others, and serves as the concert master of the Seattle
Baroque Orchestra. Ms. Wong has a Master of Music degree in Historical
Performance from The Juilliard School. She performs on a baroque violin from the
school of Joachim Tielke, ca. 1700.

Joining Ms. Wong for this performance are violist Andrew Gonzales and cellist
Nathan Whittaker. Mr. Gonzales’s historical performances on baroque viola and the
violoncello da spalla have been heard with such festivals and series as Washington
Bach Consort and the Boston Early Music Festival, among many others. Mr.
Gonzales performs on a 1930 Frederick Haenel viola modeled after a Gaspar Da Salo.
Dr. Whittaker serves as Artistic Director of Gallery Concerts, and is a noted historical
cello specialist with concert performances from New York to Seattle to Dubai. He has
a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Washington, and performs on a
baroque cello of Johann Christian Ficker II from c. 1770.