Fifth Season 2025-26
Fifth Season 2025-26
Port Orford, Oregon
Pictures and videos
from our October
EDUCATIONAL TOUR!
New String Club in Bandon
As a result of our educational outreach at Harbor Lights Middle School and Ocean Crest Elementary in Bandon, local violinist Sarah Mautner is starting a string club for all interested students which will offer string instruction for these students. In addition, the Friends of the Bandon Library offered to sponsor the newly formed String Club! They will donate a space with a keyboard, and plan apply for grants to cover expenses. Ten students signed up for the club immediately and others are expected to apply through their school music teachers. This is fantastic! We are so excited to have been the catalyst for the new string club in Bandon!
Alwyn Wright, violin
Alwyn’s career in the entertainment industry began when she was seven years old after being selected with four other ballerinas from Marin County, California to dance in a nationally aired television commercial for Oscar Meyer. The decision to buy a piano with the royalties had a huge impact on Alwyn’s future as a musician. Alwyn loved the piano immediately, and enjoyed playing it throughout her school years, but chose to focus on formally studying the violin as her primary instrument. After achieving notoriety as a promising young violinist in the San Francisco Bay area Alwyn was encouraged to study in Los Angeles, where she received a full scholarship at University of Southern California. While in college, Alwyn began working professionally in the Los Angeles music scene, and before graduating she won positions with the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra and the Long Beach Symphony. Her television appearances include episodes of CSI New York, the Agency, the Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, Ellen DeGeneres, Good Morning America, and the Grammy and Academy Awards, and she has appeared on screen in many films, including the Soloist, Get Smart, and the Jonas Brothers Concert Experience. Alwyn has toured Europe, Asia and South America extensively with Josh Groban, Ben Harper, Gnarls Barkley, Kelly Clarkson and the Jonas Brothers and has been the solo violinist along with a cast of 10 figure skaters in “Strings! A World Adventure on Ice”. Alwyn recorded her first solo album, “Passages”, in 2009. Alwyn joyfully moved to Eugene in June of 2019 with her family and is now a member of the Eugene Symphony, the Eugene Concert Choir Orchestra and the founder of the Wright Davies Community Music School.
Kimberlee Uwate, viola
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 the 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 origami paper-crane-folding community events among Delgani listeners; a commissioned work by composer Elena Ruehr (recording released on Icarus. Avie 2502, 2022); 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. Kim has taught on the faculty of Willamette University and Millikin University; and she works with students through Delgani’s summer String Quartet Academy, Adult Amateur Workshops, Deep-Dive Seminars, and Classical Spark program in third-grade classrooms. With audience-centered programs, she has lectured on a wide range of topics from critical listening skills to the historical context of the string quartet literature. Kim also performs around Oregon in solo recitals and with the Eugene Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, and Candelight Concerts. She trained at the Manhattan School of Music, University of California at Davis, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kim 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 (2019), about American string quartet ensembles and the economic systems that have supported them. She plays a late eighteenth-century viola named Abby.
Noah Seitz, cello
A Corvallis native, Noah Seitz completed his Bachelors Degree in Cello Performance at the UMKC Conservatory of Music in 2001. He then returned to Oregon as a Graduate Teaching Fellow at the University of Oregon. In addition to maintainingprivateteachingstudios in Keizer and Corvallis, heis Instructor of Cello at Pacific University and Linfield University.
He is a member of the Eugene Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players and Orchestra Next, and performs regularly with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony, the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival, and has performed as soloist with orchestras throughoutthe Willamette valley. He serves as President of the Board for Camerata Musica in Salem, and is Artistic Director of the Chintimini Chamber Music Festival. Beyond music,Noahis a soccer fan, holds a private pilot license, and loves anything to do with aviation.
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