Applauded by The Washington Post as "a perfect encapsulation of today's trends in chamber music" and by The New Yorker as "independent-minded," multi-GRAMMY®-nominated PUBLIQuartet is an improvising string quartet whose repertoire blends genres and highlights American multiculturalism. PUBLIQuartet rose on the music scene as winner of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild New Music/New Places award, and in 2019 garnered Chamber Music America's prestigious Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music.

The Puget Sound Piano Trio is ensemble-in-residence at University of Puget Sound School of Music. The Trio’s celebrated performances on the Jacobsen Concert Series and in other Pacific Northwest venues reach both their campus community and a larger regional and national audience.

Quince Vocal Ensemble’s residency has been made possible by the generosity of Brad Anderson & Kay Mead.

Quince Ensemble is a treble voice quartet dedicated to changing the paradigm for contemporary vocal chamber music. Described as “the Anonymous 4 of new music” by Opera News, Quince continually pushes the boundaries of vocal ensemble literature.

Over more than 30 seasons with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, bassoonist Paul Rafanelli has performed frequently on the Orchestra’s Chamber Music series; he has also performed with the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, and the Seattle Chamber Players.

Violinist J. Patrick Rafferty has been hailed for his “exciting performances,” his “subtle and imaginative ideas about the music,” and “a velvety, sweetly sonorous tone [that] captured the intellect and calmed the soul” (Milwaukee Sentinel).

Laura Ramsay is a saxophonist and educator originally from Bergenfield, NJ. She is in her final year of working towards undergraduate degrees in saxophone performance and music education at the University of Michigan, in the GRAMMY-award-winning saxophonist Timothy McAllister studio.

Praised as an “excellent soloist” of “great virtuosity” (NY Concert Review), with performances depicted as “thrilling” (Boston Globe), violinist Rubén Rengel is quickly gaining recognition as a remarkably gifted artist. Rubén was the winner of the Robert F. Smith Prize at the 2018 Sphinx Competition, the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition (2014), recipient of the Sallie Shepherd Perkins Prize (2019) and the Anna Y. Tringas Award (2013), and winner of the Juan Bautista Plaza National Violin Competition of Venezuela (2011).

Laura Renz, violist, is a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra in Seattle, Washington. She also performs regularly with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera.

First Prize winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Violoncello Competition, David Requiro (pronounced re-KEER-oh) has emerged as one of today’s finest American cellists.

When Nick Revel is not touring as founding violist of the multi-GRAMMY™ Nominated PUBLIQuartet, he is composing, producing, and performing original solo pieces, audio engineering ensembles of various shapes and sizes, and teaching students of all ages.

Jennifer Rhyne serves as Associate Professor of Flute and Music Theory at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington where she also directs the Sølvvinden Flute Ensemble. Before joining the faculty of PLU, Rhyne taught at Fort Hays State University in Kansas.

Jan Roberts has lived in the Walla Walla valley for three years after spending most of her life in the mission field of Africa and Indonesia. She is a graduate of Walla Walla University, BS in nursing, which was very helpful while living overseas.

A founding member of the Spektral Quartet, Russell Rolen has presented solo and chamber music recitals throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Based in Chicago, he performs regularly in the Chicago area and around the Midwest.

With “a special ability to present touching interpretations” (El Norte), Brazilian pianist Ronaldo Rolim is a prominent figure among the newest generation of outstanding musicians.

Svend Rønning enjoys a varied career as an artistic director, chamber musician, concertmaster, educator, and soloist. He is the Coordinator of the String Division at Pacific Lutheran University, where he is a Professor of Music and violinist in the Regency String Quartet. His prior teaching appointments have included faculty positions at the Eastern Music Festival, the Shenandoah Conservatory, and the University of Virginia.

Chicago-based percussionist and performer Adam Rosenblatt has a penchant for finding interesting and uncommon ways to present and perform contemporary music.

Thomas Rosenkranz was the recipient of the Classical Music Fellowship Award from the American Pianists Association and is active worldwide as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser, festival organizer, and artist teacher.

Chloe Rowlands is a Brooklyn-based trumpet player, composer, arranger, and music educator. Born in Seattle and raised in Phoenix, she moved to NYC in 2010 to study at The New School College of Performing Arts, where she now holds a faculty position teaching private trumpet lessons, jazz ensembles, and improvisation.

A native of southern California and dual citizen of France and the United States, Erik Rynearson has enjoyed performing across the Americas and Europe.

Cellist David Sabee is the Grammy award–winning music director and principal conductor of the Northwest Sinfonia.

Following his early musical education as a pianist, Sabee began cello studies at age seventeen with Johan Lingeman, former solo cellist of the Concertgebouw Orkest, and continued with Paul Olefsky and Harvey Shapiro. His primary conducting work was with the esteemed Swiss opera conductor and former Toscanini assistant, Walter Ducloux.