Pianist Jeremy Denk will perform at the season finale of Music on the Strait. (Josh Goleman)

Pianist Jeremy Denk will perform at the season finale of Music on the Strait. (Josh Goleman)

Music on the Strait to host chamber concerts this weekend

PORT ANGELES — Music on the Strait will end its season with two chamber concerts this weekend.

The Art of the String Quartet series at Maier Hall, which is sold out, will present “The String Quartet II: Bach, Frank and Glass” at 7 p.m. Friday.

The concert will feature Rachel Lee Priday, violin; James Garlick, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; and Efe Baltacıgıl, cello.

The program will include selections from J.S. Bach’s “Art of the Fugue,” String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima” by Philip Glass and Gabriela Lena Frank’s 2005 “Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout.”

​Frank is Music on the Strait’s composer-in-residence.

Jeremy Denk and friends will perform the festival finale, Frank and Faure, at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Donna M. Morris Auditorium at Field Arts & Events Hall, 201 W. Front St., Port Angeles.

Tickets are $55 per person, with some seats available as “pay what you want,” at www.fieldhallevents.org/tickets.

The concert will feature Denk, a pianist, along with pianist and composer Gabriela Lena Frank; Garlick, O’Neill and Baltacıgil.

The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Duet with two Obligato Eyeglasses Viola and Cello,” WoO 32, Frank’s Sonata Serrana No. 1 for four hands, and Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15.

​For more information, visit www.musiconthestrait .org.

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