Adam LaMotte is becoming well known to audiences in the Northwest as a leader of both period and modern ensembles.  He has appeared as soloist, concertmaster, and conductor of numerous orchestras throughout the country, including the Northwest Sinfonietta, American Virtuosi of New York,  Astoria Festival Orchestra, and the Maggini String Orchestra in Houston.  Mr. LaMotte recently returned from studying under Maestro Dumitru Goia in Bucharest, Romania, and continues his study of conducting with Gregory Vajda, Assistant Conductor of the Oregon Symphony.

As violinist, Adam has been hailed by critics as an "especially compelling" and "superb violinist" with "exceptional talent," whose performances are "energetic and exquisite." He has co-founded two critically-acclaimed ensembles, in Portland and in Houston, and continues to produce many chamber music and chamber orchestra performances.  In collaboration with ensembles such as American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and Trinity Consort, Mr. LaMotte performs on period instruments, using a fine Italian instrument made in 1730 by Bernardo Calcagni, for which he is indebted to his generous patrons who made the purchase possible.

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Douglas McLennan is a pianist, critic, and founder/editor of ArtsJournal, the internet’s most comprehensive resource for news about arts and culture. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Beveridge Webster. He has taught at Juilliard, the Peabody Institute, and Cornish College and was artist in residence at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1992/93. He has performed in the US, Canada, China and Europe.

As a writer, he has been a staff critic for Seattle Weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The News Tribune in Tacoma. He has also written regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the London Evening Standard and Salon.com. He is a frequent guest commentator on NPR, the BBC and CBC and has lectured at Columbia University, USC, Berkely, the Getty, the Chicago Art Institute and elsewhere. In addition to running ArtsJournal, he is also currently director of the National Arts Journalism Program, a project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Luce, Wallace, and Mellon Foundations. He first performed Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue at the age of 16 at the Banff Festival of Music.

Douglas McLennan, piano

Adam LaMotte, violin