ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Meet our Two Artistic Directors
George Bozarth
Co-Artistic Director
George Bozarth
Co-Artistic Director
George Bozarth
divides his year between Seattle and Bath, Maine. A Professor Emeritus of the music history faculty at the University of Washington, he was an Artistic Director of the early music series Gallery Concerts for twenty-seven seasons. Internationally known as a Brahms scholar, he also specializes in the performance of Classical and Romantic music on period pianos.
George’s encyclopedia article on Johannes Brahms, co-authored with Walter Frisch, appears in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
(2000) and Grove Online. He has published articles on the types of pianos Brahms liked to play and performance issues in his music, and, with Tamara Friedman, produced a two-CD set of performances of Brahms’s piano music (1905–25) preserved on Welte-Mignon piano rolls.
George's article “Piano Wars: The Legal Machinations of London Pianoforte Makers, 1795–1806,” co-authored with Margaret Debenham and published in the Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, won the 2011 Frances Densmore Prize, awarded by the American Musical Instrument Society. In 2018 his critical edition of Brahms's complete organ works was released by G. Henle (Munich). He is currently completing a book on Ferdinand Weber, Saxon organ, harpsichord, and pianoforte maker in Dublin, working on a book exploring the role of art music in in society in mid- to late 19th-century Boston, and preparing an annotated edition of unpublished letters by the avant-garde, Armenian-American soprano Cathy Berberian.
Tamara Friedman
Co-Artistic Director
Tamara Friedman
Co-Artistic Director
Pianist Tamara Friedman has been praised for the depth, wit, and humor of her lively performances (Seattle Times) and appreciated as "the magnificent pianist" whose "way with Mozart reached my heart as well as my intellect" (Journal Tribune, Portland, Maine). Tamara attended the Oberlin Conservatory and received her master’s degree from the Mannes College of Music (NYC). She has collaborated with such international artists as Stanley Ritchie, Jaap Schröder, and Vicki Boeckman, and appears with violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock as
Duo Amadeus. In the Pacific Northwest she has performed on the Seattle Camerata, Allegro Baroque and Beyond, Belle Arte, Early Music Guild, Gallery Concerts, and Mostly Nordic series and for the Governor’s Chamber Music Festival. She has also performed for several summers on the Kennebec Early Music Festival in Bath, Maine.
Tamara has been a featured performer in early piano workshops for Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), Seattle, Edmonds, and Washington State Music Teachers Associations, and the Western Early Keyboard Association. She maintains a private studio in La Conner, WA, where she teaches modern piano and fortepiano on her collection of 18th and 19th century keyboard instruments, which is on display at SEKM!—the Skagit Early Keyboard Museum.