I have been playing bass guitar in a variety of bands around Seattle for the last 5 years, and teaching for the last 2, I offer in-person and remote.
Brian Riedel
Author: stephen
Posted: May 28, 2025
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Instrument Family: Strings
Author: stephen
Posted: May 28, 2025
Victoria Parker
Author: stephen
Posted: February 17, 2025
Born into a musical household, Victoria Parker grew up performing and touring with her family quintet. Through this experience, she developed a deep connection to chamber music which remains an important part of her musical life.
She has been a featured soloist with many orchestras, including One World Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra, North Corner Chamber Orchestra, and Northwest Sinfonia, with which she recorded a violin concerto composed for her by Roupen Shakarian.
She is a founding member of North Corner Chamber Orchestra and was a primary leader and Artistic Coordinator from 2014 to 2022. She performs with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera and can be heard on numerous popular albums and soundtracks, many of which feature her arrangements and improvisations.
Rachel Nesvig
Author: stephen
Posted: September 24, 2024
Performance, recording, private teaching, coaching, sectionals, and conductor.
Inspired by her Norwegian roots, Rachel has built a career around her love of music, performance, teaching, and Scandinavian tradition. She earned her BA in Music and Norwegian from St. Olaf College in 2007, followed by a master’s degree in Violin Performance and K-12 Teaching Certificate from Central Washington University in 2011. Rachel completed additional studies in classical violin at the Music Conservatory of the University of Stavanger, Norway, also using the opportunity to polish her Norwegian language skills. Although violin is her main jam, Rachel is an avid Hardanger Fiddler (the national folk instrument of Norway), an aspiring violist, an enthusiastic conductor, and a novice improv actor!
Bronn Journey
Author: nateomdal
Posted: August 16, 2024
Performing and recording harpist from Sultan, WA.
bronn@bronnjourney.com
BronnJourney.com
Grant Olson
Author: stephen
Posted: April 12, 2024
Born and raised in Seattle, I am a Freelance Cellist for hire in the Pacific Northwest with over a decade of professional experience in orchestral work, chamber music, and modern music. Currently performing with groups including but not limited to: Symphony Tacoma, NW Sinfonietta, Auburn Symphony, The Sound Ensemble, Village Theatre, and The 5th Avenue Theatre.
Jared Parsons
Author: stephen
Posted: February 27, 2024
Based in Seattle, harpist Jared Parsons strives to defy the expectations of the harp in both classical and modern music. He has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral member throughout the United States, most recently with Symphony Tacoma, Olympia Symphony, North Carolina Opera and North Carolina Ballet. Jared received professional training at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts studying under Jacquelyn Barteltt. During his time at conservatory he became fascinated with combining mediums and merging the visual elements of playing the harp with dance, film and technology. Jared is available for freelance projects throughout the Pacific Northwest area.
Ramon Salumbides
Author: stephen
Posted: January 10, 2024
Ramon Salumbides began his studies of the double bass with Barry Lieberman, former Assistant Principal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Artist in Residence at the University of Washington, and would eventually attend UW for a Bachelor’s Degree in Double Bass Performance. In the summer of 2013, Ramon won the position of Section Bass for the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and has since then been granted tenure. In addition, he performs with Bellevue Symphony (Principal), North Corner Chamber Orchestra, Lake Washington Symphony Orchestra and the 5th Ave Theater.
Ramon has also played for the Thalia Symphony Orchestra (Principal), Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra (Principal) and has subbed with the Auburn Symphony, Northwest Sinfonietta, Village Theater, Bremerton Symphony, Bellingham Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Northwest Symphony Orchestra, and the Maui Pops Orchestra.
Ramon has served as double bass coach for the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, and various schools within the Seattle, Bellevue, and Lake Washington School Districts since 2013. His current studio located at Hammond Ashley Violins in Issaquah WA. Students have gone on to receive recognition within Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra, Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra, All-State/All-Northwest, and acceptance into various collegiate music programs across the country.
Aleida Gehrels
Author: stephen
Posted: June 15, 2023
Violist Aleida Gehrels is a Seattle based performer and recording artist. A leading collaborator in cross-genre music, Aleida has toured with Macklemore and been featured live on KEXP radio with ODESZA and Jeremy Enigk. Other recent highlights include an appearance as wedding violist on the hit Netflix show Love Is Blind, as well as performances, tours, and recordings with Father John Misty, Perfume Genius, Abney Park, and many other international acts. In addition to her work in contemporary music, Aleida maintains an active career as a classical violist performing over 70 events yearly with the Arcobaleno String Quartet and freelancing in area symphonies.
Cynthia Swenson
Author: stephen
Posted: October 25, 2022
Cynthia Swenson is an experienced cello teacher and performer, recently moved up to Port Orchard from the San Francisco area. She has played cello since age 9, after/while also studying piano and flute, and completed her bachelor’s degree in biology from Stanford University while under music scholarship. She studied with the esteemed cello instructors Irene Sharp, Irving Klein, Bonnie Hampton and Gabor Rejto, and has performed as principal cellist with numerous professional and community symphonies and chamber groups. Cynthia also ran and performed in a professional string trio for many years, along with various gigs in musical theatre, choral and church ensembles, opera and ballet pit orchestras, and accompanying some rock, pop and fiddling groups! Her award, exam and competition winning students have successfully auditioned into many youth orchestras and summer programs; one was even selected to play on NPR’s radio “From the Top” program. Cynthia teaches all levels and commitments of playing; ages 4 through mature adult. She is also available as a performer with orchestras, chamber and choir ensembles, and solo events.
Available for Weddings and Events!
website: cellogirl.me
email: cswenson@stanfordalumni.org
phone/text: 650-387-2106
Mary Manning
Author: stephen
Posted: December 23, 2021
Mary Manning, violinist and violist, is a Tacoma native and a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio where she studied both modern and baroque violin performance with Marilyn McDonald. She is longtime Principal Second Violin of Northwest Sinfonietta as well as the Vashon and Tacoma Opera Orchestras. She has served as guest concertmaster for Northwest Sinfonietta, Seattle Pro Musica, Olympia and Bremerton Symphonies. As a chamber music player she has been a member of the Regency, Tomasini, and Bravura String Quartets, the Chinook Trio, and the Puget Sound Consort. Her extensive work as a baroque orchestral musician has included membership in the Seattle, Portland, and Pacific Baroque Orchestras, Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra, and the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra. More unique work has included appearing, as a violinist, in a television commercial for Folgers coffee, recording a soundtrack for a silent movie (The Showoff, Turner Classic Movies) and playing backup for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page on their 1995 tour. She taught violin at Pacific Lutheran University and was a member of the faculty string quartet from 2008-2019. Mary lives in Gig Harbor and is a private violin and viola teacher.