Washington State’s Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director Jonathan Pasternack.
In Tuesday’s (3/19) Peninsula Daily News (Port Angeles, Washington), Diane Urbani de la Paz writes, “The 22-year-old virtuosa Charlotte Marckx is about to graduate with her degree in violin performance; she’s been selected for the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in May. But first, she’ll rejoin the Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra this weekend to play one of her all-time favorite concertos. ‘Every time I come back to it, I love it even more,’ Marckx said of Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, which is the centerpiece of the symphony’s performances on Saturday. Also playing Hindemith’s Prelude to ‘Mathis der Maler’ and Respighi’s ‘The Pines of Rome,’ the orchestra will take the stage at 10 a.m. for the public dress rehearsal and at 7:30 p.m. for the evening concert. Marckx and conductor and artistic director Jonathan Pasternack will give a brief pre-concert chat … Pasternack [said] the orchestra is 82 musicians strong this time, including Marckx, the guest soloist. She’s well-known to North Olympic Peninsula audiences, having debuted with the Port Angeles Symphony in December 2018. She was just 17 then … Pasternack invited Marckx back again, along with her cellist sister Olivia, in 2020 for a live-streamed concert…. Marckx will receive her degree in violin performance from the Colburn Conservatory of Music.”
