Abby Karr and Maureen Murchie, violins
Kimberlee Uwate, viola (B.A. music ‘08)
Abbie Eads, cello

Program

Gabriela Lena Frank: “Toyos” and “Coquetos” from Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout

W. A. Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 (“Dissonance”)

Paul Wiancko: American Haiku for Viola and Cello

Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F Major (“American”)

Free

This Shinkoskey Noon Concert is made possible with support from the Joy S. Shinkoskey Series of Noon Concert Endowment.

About the Performers

Maureen Murchie performs on modern and baroque violin and viola across the U.S. as well as in China, Japan, and Europe. She is concertmaster of the Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra, principal viola of Bach Akademie Charlotte, and a member of the Handel and Haydn Society. Recent engagements include Trinity Baroque Orchestra at Trinity Wall Street, the new music ensemble NOVUS NY, Helicon Foundation, the American Classical Orchestra, El Mundo, Voices of Music, The Sebastians, Three Notch’d Road, New York Baroque Incorporated, Mark Morris Dance Company, Mercury Ensemble, Staunton Music Festival, Boulder Bach Festival, REBEL, Bethlehem Bach Festival, Harry Connick Jr.’s Holiday Pops show, and the Broadway productions of Tootsie and Farinelli and the King. In 2021, she was a featured soloist in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with the American Classical Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. Her album Gospel Hymns for Violin and Piano with jazz pianist/arranger Paul Johnston was released in July 2023.

Giving “performances from the heart” with “matchless precision” (Daniel Buckwalter, Eugene Scene), violist Kimberlee Uwate creates musical experiences rooted in connection, reflection, and growth. As the violist of Delgani String Quartet, she has been building community in Oregon since 2015 through projects like “How We Remember.” This trifold experience in early 2020 included traditional Japanese origami paper-crane-folding community events among Delgani listeners; a new commissioned work by American composer Elena Ruehr; and an immersive concert honoring the children of World War II. Each season, Delgani programs concerts with its audience in mind, continually pushing the edge while deepening connections to music that is both familiar and new. In recent seasons, Kim has performed with Delgani at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and Charles University in Prague. She works with students through Delgani’s summer String Quartet Academy, Adult Amateur Workshops, and Classical Spark program in third-grade classrooms around the state of Oregon.

As a lecturer, Kim leads Delgani deep-dive seminars on the music, life, and influences of various composers; and as faculty at the collegiate level, she has over ten years experience teaching viola, violin, and chamber music. She trained at the Manhattan School of Music, UC Davis, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Uwate received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree with the completion of her dissertation, “Toward a Business History of the String Quartet: How the String Quartet Became a Career Path in the United States,” about American string quartet ensembles and the economic systems that have supported them. She plays a late eighteenth-century viola named Abby.