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Empyrean Quartet

The Empyrean Quartet is comprised of young and talented Whidbey performers.

They met at Whidbey Island Orchestra, under the direction of Cynthia Morrow, and were honed into a dynamic ensemble by the beloved, local cellist and arranger James Hinkley.

The quartet presents a concert of music for string quartet featuring a wide variety of genres and arrangements from the Beatles, Chicago, and Scott Joplin.

THE MUSICIANS


Avrey Scharwat, violin

Dustin Scharwat, violin

Owen Boram, viola

Jasmin Graner, cello

Earlier Event: June 22
Prelude to a Kiss - Closing Night
Later Event: July 5
Whidbey Island Glass Guild Inaugural Show

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.