Due to COVID-19, all live performances at PNB were cancelled in 2020-21. The company pivoted to an all-digital season, recording and filming works for online viewing. Among the solo works performed by Michael Jinsoo Lim in 2020-21:
Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (violin soloist)
Richard Einhorn: Maxwell’s Demon (electric violin soloist), for Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy (violin soloist), for Kyle Davis’s Las Estrellas
Oliver Davis: Violin Concerto (violin soloist), for Edwaard Liang’s The Veil Between Worlds

PNB’s entertaining season-closer returns Crystal Pite’s (Emergence) Plot Point, which held audiences spellbound in Hitchcock-inspired suspense during its PNB premiere, alongside Twyla Tharp’s Waiting at the Station, set to Allen Toussaint’s irresistible R&B-meets-jazz score. A new work by choreographer Edwaard Liang completes the triple bill.

Concertmaster
7 performances; click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Giselle, the story of a young woman who dies of a broken heart, is famous for the Wilis—a sisterhood of ghostly maidens who call Giselle’s spirit from the grave to take revenge on the nobleman who betrayed her. This is Giselle‘s first return since PNB’s production received magnificent new sets and costumes in 2014.

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7 performances; click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Alejandro Cerrudo’s (Little mortal jump, Silent Ghost) rapidly expanding Seattle fan base eagerly anticipates PNB’s premiere of One Thousand Pieces, a large-scale ensemble work inspired by artist Marc Chagall. The double bill returns David Dawson’s (A Million Kisses to my Skin) powerfully athletic Empire Noir, set against a massive, curving sculpture.

Solo violinist and String Quartet member for One Thousand Pieces
Concertmaster
7 performances; click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Kent Stowell’s Cinderella, combines storytelling, choreography, Prokofiev’s familiar score, and superb design to transport the lonely heroine from her wistful fireside dreams to a dazzling palace ball. There, Cinderella and her prince shimmer like diamonds at the center of a scarlet-clad waltz for one of PNB’s most spectacular scenes.

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7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

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30+ performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Choreographer Eva Stone has selected music from five women composers and is collaborating with an all-woman design team to create F O I L, Eva’s first work for the PNB mainstage. 2019 Doris Duke Artist winner Donald Byrd has been at the forefront of contemporary dance for four decades. Love and Loss, his sixth work for PNB, features a cast of 22 to a score by Emmanuel Witzthum. Miles Pertl, his sister, visual artist Sydney M. Pertl, and composer Jherek Bischoff are creating a multi-media work incorporating video, visual arts, nature sounds and, of course, the incomparable dancing you expect from PNB.

Solo and chamber music performances for Eva Stone’s F O I L: music by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Fanny Mendelssohn, Francesca Lebrun;
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7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

To open the season, Carmina Burana’s 2,500-pound golden wheel rotates above more than 100 dancers, musicians, and singers in PNB’s powerhouse production, paired with Agon, the pinnacle of the legendary collaboration between George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky.

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7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Violinist for Paola Prestini’s chamber opera, Silent Light

Silent Light is a new Opera based on the film Stellet Licht by Carlos Reygadas. Set within a Mennonite community in northern Mexico, the opera follows a pious husband and father, Johan, who’s strongly held spiritual obligation to his marriage, family, and community is put to the test when he falls in love with another woman from his faith. Silent Light provides a glimpse of a society that is often misunderstood and simplified by people outside of the faith and lifestyle, presenting commonalities of human experience.

Music by Paola Prestini
Libretto by Royce Vavrek
Stage Direction, Scenic and Costume Design by Thaddeus Strassberger
Lighting Design by Jason Hand
Foley and Sound Design by Sxip Shirey
Musical Direction by Christopher Rountree

Margaret Greenham Theatre, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada

3 performances; click here for more info.

Violin soloist for Signature (Barret Anspach’s double violin concerto, VVLD), with Rita Lee (violin); Concertmaster
7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Concertmaster
7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Works by Dohnányi and Dvorak

Christina Dahl (piano), Oksana Ejokina (piano), Melia Watras (viola), Meta Weiss (cello), Kathryn Brunhaver (cello), Hoorig Poochikian (violin), Michael Gibson (cello)

Icicle Creek Center for the Arts, Leavenworth, WA

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7 performances: click here for more info

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9 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Concertmaster
30+ performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA

Onstage string quartet for Cacti (Schubert, Haydn, Beethoven, improvisation); Concertmaster
7 performances: click here for more info

McCaw Hall, Seattle, WA