Saturday, 28 June 2025 @ 7:30pm
Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church
Hsing-Hui Hsu is a founding member of the Emerald City Chamber Orchestra. She received her Bachelors of Music in clarinet performance from Rice University, where she also served as Music Director of the Rice Light Opera Society. While working as a software engineer at Amazon, she became a founding member of the Amazon Symphony Orchestra and served as Music Director, collaborating with other arts organizations in the Seattle area as well as charitable organizations such as Mary’s Place. She has guest conducted the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra, Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, and Seattle Festival Orchestra, and she joins the Harmonia Orchestra and Chorus for the 2024-2025 season as assistant conductor.
In addition to conducting, Hsing-Hui is an active clarinetist. Last season, she performed the Copland clarinet concerto with the Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra, where she also serves as principal clarinet. She is the bass clarinetist and acting principal clarinetist for the upcoming season with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and has also played with the Seattle Philharmonic, Pacific Northwest Opera, Sustain Music Project, Tacoma Opera, and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra.
Luke Fitzpatrick is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and artistic director of Inverted Space, a Seattle-based new music collective. He has performed with the Harry Partch Ensemble as well as with Deltron 3030, Terence Blanchard and the E-Collective and has appeared on recordings released by Ablaze and Centaur records. Luke is currently concertmaster of Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Festival Orchestra, Federal Way Symphony and Emerald City Chamber Orchestra. He is a founding member of the String Quartet Pure Flavor and performs with Temple Mozaic, an improvisational music and dance collective alongside Smerk, Orb and Free. Besides music related things, Luke is an avid dancer and enjoys biking, eating sushi and collecting shoes. He plays on a bow generously on loan from the Kevin Tao Foundation.
Founded in 2024, the Emerald City Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) brings together musicians from across the greater Puget Sound area to showcase music written for strings. Seasoned professionals as well as musicians active in civic orchestras share their love of the string orchestra repertoire in this exciting new ensemble, bringing fresh energy to beloved classics and contemporary compositions alike.