PROGRAM | October 2

Tangos and Boleros from the early 20th Century: Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Arranged for violin and piano by Stacey Eliason

Canaro (Ca. 1920)             José Martinez (1890-1939)

Tango Habanera (1925) Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)

Júrame (1926)     Maria Grever (1885-1951)

Volver (1934)  Carlos Gardel (1890-1935)

  • Caleb Tizon, violin

  • Stacey Eliason, piano

Sambeada, for wind quintet Miguel del Águila (b. 1957)

  • Winds5

  • Lauren Asimakoupoulos, flute 

  • Brian Madsen, oboe

  • Brian Schappals, clarinet

  • Anna Barbee, horn

  • David Wall, bassoon

Selections by Colombian composers:

El Sanjuanero Anselmo Duran (1907-1940)

Mi Buenaventura Petronio Álvarez (1914-1966)

 Llegó La Cumbia Etelvina Maldonado (1935-2010)

 Prede La Vela Lucho Bermúdez (1912-1944)

  • Miho & Diego

  • Miho Takekawa and Diego Coy

Selections by Trio Guadalevín will be announced by the artists from the stage

  • Trio Guadalevín

  • Abel Rocha, Gus Denhard, and Antonio Gomez

About the Artist

CALEB TIZON, VIOLIN

Caleb Tizon has played violin since the age of eleven. He began formal violin training with Ye Tao from 2004 to 2006. He later continued with Sarah Chung from 2008 to 2010 and Dr. Meredith Arksey in 2015.

Caleb regularly freelances around the Seattle area as a soloist, orchestra member, chamber musician, and studio session musician. He has performed at numerous venues, such as Benaroya Hall and the Paramount Theatre. In high school, Caleb won multiple awards and scholarships for his participation in school and community music programs. He has soloed with community and professional orchestras, including the Encanto Orchestra, the Issaquah Philharmonic, and the Rainbow City Orchestra. As an orchestra member, Caleb has played with numerous professional and community orchestras in theSeattle Area, sometimes holding leadership positions - he currently plays with the Everett Philharmonic and the Pacifica Chamber Orchestra. He served as Principle Second for the Salish Sea Orchestra in 2024 and served as Concertmaster for the Rainbow City Orchestra from 2011 to 2015, beginning when he was nineteen years old. Other orchestras include the Encanto Orchestra (where he served as Concertmaster on occasion) and the Seattle Rock Orchestra. He currently leads the B-Minor String Quartet, which regularly participates in local workshops for coaching and performance.

Caleb began giving music lessons (violin, voice, and piano) in 2014, teaching in conjunction with a number of studios in the North Seattle area. For his Master's thesis, he conducted a research study on improving minority representation in classical music education, which was published via Medium. He continues to evaluate music-related independent studies for Antioch students. In addition to Caleb's music career, he currently serves as a Case Manager for the Youth Re-Engagement Program at Everett Community College, where he helps young adults navigate the paths to their own dream careers. He also continues to perform around the Seattle area as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra member.


STACEY ELIASON, PIANO

Stacey Eliason has been performing on the piano since the age of 6. She holds music degrees from Indiana University and Central Washington University. She performs widely in chamber music settings on piano and French horn. As an arranger, her musical adaptations have been performed widely, most notably, "Goin' Home" for choir, piano, and horn which premiered at Benaroya Hall in 2012 by the Seattle Children's Choir. The events of 2020 led her back to solo piano repertoire which she thoroughly enjoyed.

During 2020-21 Ms. Eliason was part of Chamber Music Marysville and Lake Chelan Bach Fest’s virtual seasons as a soloist. She also found it a privilege to record with numerous professional singers and instrumentalists during this time. As organist/keyboardist, Mrs. Eliason has served at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Seattle, Skagit Valley Catholic Churches, Bethlehem Lutheran Church and St. Phillip’s Episcopal, Marysville. A popular accompanist of choirs, she has served as pianist for the Seattle Children’s Chorus, Everett Norwegian Male Chorus and Northshore School District Choirs. She enjoys performing chamber music with instrumentalists and singers for competitions and festivals locally and throughout the Pacific Northwest.

WINDS5

David Wall, bassoon; Lauren Asimakoupoulos, flute; Brian Madsen,oboe;  Brian Schappals, clarinet; Anna Barbee, horn

Two-time American Prize finalist Winds5 is a Seattle-area woodwind quintet. We specialize in performing music that is not traditionally associated with a wind quintet, such as music from non-Western cultures, video games, film and television. Broadening the wind quintet’s repertoire is important to us, as we actively champion and commission new music for wind quintet. Winds5 brings the wind quintet into the 21st century with fresh, vibrant, and diverse performances.

MIHO & DIEGO

The Miho & Diego Duo has been boldly blending Latino, Japanese and American musical traditions since 2006. Both accomplished musicians in their own right, Miho Takekawa and Diego Coy came together after years of admiring each other’s work and discovering that their sounds could be combined to make something genuinely new and unique. Fittingly, the title of their debut CD, “Quenarimba”, combines the names of their primary instruments, the quena, a traditional Andean flute, and the marimba. “Quenarimba” showcases their distinctive combination of warm, natural wood sounds and takes the listener on a musical trip from Japan to South America. Playing a brand of music that is truly their own and not easily categorized, the Duo’s repertoire covers an amazingly wide range of styles with an innovative approach. They play from an extensive catalog of Andean, traditional South American, jazz, Latin jazz and Japanese compositions, as well as original compositions. Their award-winning youth program “Musical Trip Around the World” has been sponcered by the King/Pierce/Sno-Isle County and City of Seattle Public Library Systems. They often visit various K-12 schools for morning assemblies and multi-cultural festivals, nursing/retirement homes all over Washington State. Their invitaitons have been extended to perform in Oregon, California, Chile and Japan.

The Duo has been invited to perfrom various places in Washington State -Beneroyal Hall, Univeristy of Washington, Western Washington University, Seattle Feistas Patrias, Seattle Univeristy, Arts in Nature, Columia Art Walk, South Puget Sound Community College, Peninsul College, Festival Sandiata, Seattle Central College, Seattle Torshlight Parade, Grays Harbor College, , Seattle Children’s Museum, Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle Rhythm Festical, Tacoma Ethnic Fest., Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, City of Seattle/Shoreline/Edmonds Parks & Recreations, Bellevue Art Museum Arts Fair, Tacoma Ocean Fest, Tacoma Moon Fest., Snoqualmie-Chaclacayo, Peru Sister-City celebration, Seattle Summer Parkways, Classical Tuesdays in Old Town Tacoma, Seattle Art Museum, Wing Luke Museum.

Miho & Diego also collaborate music projects with South Sound Symphonic Band, Graham-Kapowsin Jazz Band, Griffin Middle School, Artist Mentoring Program, Seattle Peace Choir, 91.3 FM-KBCS, Sponge School, Kizuna Project, Northwest Immigrants’ Right Project and more. The Miho & Diego Duo has received artists grants from 4Culture, Aritst Trust, and National Endowment for the Arts.

TRIO GUADALEVÍN

Mexico meets the Mediterranean in an acoustic, intercultural journey through music.

A unique collaboration between a folklorist from Mexico City, a lute/oud/guitarist specializing in the early music of Europe and a globe-traveling percussionist and arts educator, Trío Guadalevín explores the musical dialogue between Indigenous, European and African cultures which define Latin American identity. With memorable stories and an incredible array of instruments from the Americas, Africa and Europe the trio weaves together a tapestry of music, languages, culture, history and geography. Presenting in English or Spanish, we are pleased to offer a compelling, substantive education/engagement portfolio that is just as strong as our concert program. We move seamlessly between the past and present, employing a mix of contemporary, folkloric and historic melodies sung in Spanish, Zapotec and Ladino, which ride on rhythms from the Afro-Indigenous son jarocho to the Italian tarantella and Moroccan shabia. Public and school audiences experience a lush musical soundscape, but walk away with renewed understanding of the roots and intersections that braid seemingly different cultures into a single story.