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Watch the transformation of 10 pre-professional musicians as they progress from classroom to stage at Centrum Chamber Music Workshop taking place June 13-17.

The workshop, now in its ninth year, will also include a performance by instructors Lucinda Carver and the Grammy award–winning Pacifica Quartet.

The emerging artists participating in the workshop all are participating on full scholarship, Robert Birman, Centrum executive director said.

“There are so many things that make this workshop special,” he stated. “The community loves watching how much the participants learn and grow in the time between the free public master class mid-week and the stage performances that happen a few days later. It's an insider's view to the development of a concert-level performance.”

A master class open to the public is June 13, with student concerts June 15 and 16. All events are 7:30 p.m. at the Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden. The master class is free; concert tickets are $10, and as with all Centrum events, audience members under 18 are admitted free of charge (reservations still suggested due to space).

The workshop faculty performance, 2 p.m. June 17 at the Wheeler Theater, will feature music by Haydn, Mieczyslaw Weinberg and Shostakovich. 

Artistic director and coach Lucinda Carver is a pianist harpsichordist and conductor who has performed as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and others and is also a professor and vice dean of the division of classical performance at the USC Thornton School of Music.

The Pacifica Quartet, members of which also will be coaching the students, is the quartet-in-residence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music and was last year appointed to lead the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

The 10 musicians participating in the workshop include violinists Beatrice Hsieh, Charles Gleason, Byron Fulop Laing and Selena Janzen, violists Serena Hsu and Sofiya Kyrylyuk, cellists Daniel Blumhard and Travis Scharer and pianists Alison Hsieh and Tomomi Sato.

For tickets and more information, visit centrum.org.