Pierre-Alain Chevalier, conductor

 

An intimate concert with grand appeal, Double Vision features two world-class soloists and three legendary composers. With performances at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts (March 13, 2026) and Village Church (March 15, 2026), audiences will double their fun with Brahms’s beloved Concerto for Violin and Cello (“Double Concerto”), Mendelssohn’s spirited Symphony No. 4, the “Italian,” and Mozart’s overture to Cosí fan tutte.

Beaverton Symphony Orchestra is thrilled to share the stage with violinist Anthea Kreston (whose debut book, Crescendo, will release this October) and cellist Jason Duckles; two outstanding, renowned performers who are not only professional collaborators, but also married! From their years in Berlin, Germany and elsewhere in Europe, Jason, Anthea, and their two daughters, have found a home in Oregon and we are all the beneficiaries. 

The concert concludes with “the jolliest piece” Mendelssohn ever wrote, the “Italian” Symphony. Enjoy a world-class performance with your Beaverton Symphony Orchestra March 13 and 15. “Pay what you can” pricing. Children under 18 are free.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Overture to Così fan tutte (1790)

Johannes Brahms - Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, op. 102 (1887)

Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 in A major "Italian", op. 90 (1833)

 

Soloists in the Brahms Double Concerto 

 

Anthea Kreston

Violinist Anthea Kreston sometimes just needs to pinch herself. How did she get so lucky?  She was the first American violinist to play in a major European string quartet, the Artemis Quartet - and she travelled the world, performing on some of the most legendary stages a person could dream of, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore - from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Seoul. She was a Professor at the Universität der Kunste Berlin, where Clara Schumann and Schoenberg taught. She also was a Master Teacher at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel in Brussels, where her students won competitions from Australia to New York.  She loves to write - penning a classical music blog which is one of the top-5 most read music blogs internationally, and has an awesome husband and two funny and generous daughters. Her memoir, Crescendo, will be published by Paul Dry Books in 2027. Her recent release on Warner Classics is Shostakovich Quartets and Piano Quintet, and she has hosted her own podcast from the Boulez Hall in the heart of Berlin. She has played in the Berlin Philharmonic, and as concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. But most of all, she loves being with her family, growing tomatoes, and petting guinea pigs. 
The San Diego Reader said of her "...Anthea is a soloist of the Heifetz- Shaham-Vengerov caliber, whose musical instincts could make even a mere bagatelle thrill the soul and stir the senses to a frenzy." 

Jason Duckles

Cellist Jason Duckles is from Vancouver, Canada, leads an active life as a chamber musician, and is a founding member of the Amelia Piano Trio which has toured extensively in the United States and abroad. Also a member of the Humboldt Streichtrio, which Volker Jacobsen and Anthea Kreston (both formerly of the Artemis Quartet), he was invited to perform in the inaugural week of the famed Elbphilharmonie Hall  Hamburg.  As a chamber musician, Jason has been presented with an ASCAP award (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) for adventurous programming, and top prize in both the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Munich ARD International Competition. Jason has performed as the solo cellist with the Mark Morris Dance group, and has toured with of YoYo Ma's Silk Road Project in concerts from New York to Kazakhstan.  He was a member of the Konzerthaus Orchestra in Berlin, Germany. Jason's involvement in education has always been central part of his musical life - he has taught at several universities across the United States. 
He has had the honor of performing in concert with members of the Beaux Arts trio, and the Artemis, Cleveland, Orion, Emerson, and Guarneri String Quartets. Jason can be heard on the recording labels Sony, Naxos, Channel Classics, Traditional Crossroads, and Cedille Records.