MUSIC ON THE STRAIT PRESENTS: Summer @ Field Hall

Music on the Strait Opening Night: A Night at the Opera
Saturday, August 22, 7pm (6:15pm pre-concert talk with Classic KING FM’s Lisa Bergman) | Field Arts and Events Hall
Note: for tickets to Music on the Strait’s Maier Hall series on August 23 and 29, please visit musiconthestrait.org

Ottornio Resphigi Il Tramonto for mezzo soprano and string quartet (1914) 

Gabriela Lena Frank El Mundo for mezzo soprano and string quartet (World Premiere)

Erno Dohnanyi Piano Quintet No 1 in C minor, Op 1 (1902)

Join us for a special Opening Night 2026, featuring Music on the Strait’s first journey into the operatic world. Renowned mezzo soprano Abigail Nims performs Resphigi’s deeply expressive Il Tramonto (The Sunset) as well as El Mundo, a world premiere arrangement by our composer-in-residence, Gabriela Lena Frank, recent winner of a Pulitzer Prize. We close our program with Erno Dohnanyi’s richly melodic Piano Quintet in C minor, welcoming back pianist August Baik, who impressed audiences with his Music on the Strait debut earlier this year!

Abigail Nims, mezzo-soprano

Kristin Lee, violin

James Garlick, violin

Maiya Papach, viola

Silver Ainomäe, cello

August Baik, piano