New: First time ever recording of Amanda Maier and Julius Röntgen's Swedische Weisen und Tänze from Nordlys 2012, Music of Sweeden, recorded Sunday, December  23. Click on the image to listen, linked to the International Music Score Library Progect (IMSLP.org)  

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For a concert sample, here is the complete recording of a concert given at the  Rawson home in April, 2008 performing Russian and Armenian music: 

from Russia with Love

Mussorgsky / Rachmaninov, Hopak  / Balakirev, Impromptu 

Rimsky-Korsakov / Kreisler, Chanson Arabe 

Rimsky-Korsakov / Kreisler, Danse Orientale 

Rachmaninov, Romance Op. 6 No. 1 

Komitas, Apricot Tree / Khachaturian, Lyric Poem  

Khachaturian, Dance  

Tchaikowsky, Russian Dance from Swan Lake 

Tchaikowsky, Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op. 42, Meditation 

Tchaikowsky, Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op. 42, Scherzo  

Tchaikowsky, Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op. 42, Melody 

Tchaikowsky, Valse-Scherzo, Op. 34

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Archives: Olympic Youth Strings 

and Olympic Chamber Orchestra

(a non-profit organization active 2005 -2008)

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Violinist Alan Rawson first pursued his music interests in his junior year in high school as a self-taught folk guitarist, recorder player, and madrigal singer. Classical Violin studies were begun at Cañada Junior College in Redwood City California, since their program did not include Country and Western fiddling. He received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from San Francisco State University and completed his doctorate degree at the University of Colorado in Boulder in violin performance studying with Oswald Lehnert while developing a passionate interest in Rocky Mountain cycling and cross country skiing. He has served on the music faculties of Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota and the University of Idaho in Moscow, and has recently retired from Minnesota State University Moorhead where he directed the University Orchestra and taught upper strings. He was concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony for twenty years and appeared as a featured orchestral soloist several times performing works by Tchaikowsky, Mozart, Sibelius, and Bruch, among others.

Alan has a passionate interest in exploring the music of past great composers, now all but lost to obscurity, and he is actively researching, locating and scanning public domain scores, making these freely available to the internet community worldwide.

A native of Fargo, ND, Sandy Rawson  (pianist, organist, harpsichordist) completed her Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance at the University of Minnesota and continued  her studies at the Musik Akademie in Vienna, Austria. During her long tenure in the Fargo Moorhead area, she was a highly active accompanist and large ensemble pianist performing with all the major organizations including opera, symphony, choral, ballet, universities and public schools. She frequently appeared on faculty and guest artist recitals at the three local universities, NDSU, MSUM, and Concordia College. An active church organist from the age of 14, she held the post of organist at the First Congregational Church in Fargo for 25 years. She currently is the organist for Sequim Community Church. 

Sandy’s love of music is equaled by her love for cooking. A professionally trained chef, having lived several years in Europe and Japan, international cuisine has been a lifelong passion.

On the music research trail in Europe, 2000

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Join Alan and Sandy for the opening of their 2017-18 Season, performing violin and piano art music of the British Isles at their Chimacum home on Friday and Sunday, October 13 & 15 at 2 pm.

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Scotland’s best kept secret in classical music, Sir John Blackwood McEwen, will be the subject of the first half in rarely heard works obtained from the University of Glasgow, opening with selections from his youthful, Edwardian spirited Highland Dances of 1902. Improvisations Provençales (1937) follows, a remarkable suite in 5 movements, revealing a haunting voice of Celtic resonance and inspration he found in the south of France later in life.

Cyril Scott, a true English eccentric and man of many talents, follows with his sensual and exotic Lotus Land (1905), captured in Fritz Kreisler’s arrangement of his best known piano work.

Frederick Delius’s evocative Sonata No. 1 (1914) concludes the program. Considered by the legendary English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as “the last great apostle in our time of romance, emotion and beauty in music,” Delius wraps his listeners in rich, glowing autumn colors inspired of his early youth in the Florida orange groves.

Sandy’s English and French Fancies will complete the afternoon following the music.

Linger and celebrate the start of the Rawson Duo's 10th Anniversary Season in a setting of comfort and hospitality like none other. Seating is limited and arranged through advanced paid reservation, $25. Reservations: contact Alan or Sandy Rawson via email or call 360-379-3449 (press 1 when anti-solicitation message begins). Checks should be made payable to:

Dr. Alan Rawson, 10318 Rhody Drive, Chimacum WA 98325

image: Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran, Firth of Clyde, Scotland (RD on the road, 2015)
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 (RD on the trail, 2015: Scotland departure near Annon on The Solway Firth in June / Berlin arrival in July)

Concert life at the Rawsons

Recent Programs

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2016-17 Season in Review

2015-16 Season in Review

2014-15 Season in Review

2013-14 Season in Review

2012-13 Season in Review

Friday and Sunday, May 17 & 19, 2 pm

2011-12 Season in Review