A Note from Director Lindsey Strand-Polyak

Welcome to Musique du Jour Presents' 2025-2026 Season! 

I'm honored to be continuing on the legacy of beautiful concerts in Seattle that George Bozarth has brought to the PNW for over 35 years. 

I'm originally from Seattle, and I grew up having my mom take me to concerts at Queen Anne Christian Church, Musique du Jour Presents' season home. The Pacific Northwest is not only where I grew up and began my musical studies, but it's also where I first performed professionally on baroque and classical violin.

 I look forward this season to coming full circle: sharing new musical tunes and tales through the vintage color palette of historical performance. There will be a mix of familiar and fresh players joining me, and all of them are fabulous: PNW Locals Brandon Vance and Christine Beckman, (violins), Adaiha MacAdam-Somer (cello), Page Smith (cello), and Tamara Friedman (fortepiano), and one of my favorite musicians in the entire state of California, Andrew McIntosh (violin). If you don't know them all yet, I can't wait to introduce you. And if you do... you know you're in for a real treat.

I've loved history as long as I've loved violin (and I started at age 4!), so period performance practice let's me combine the two to explore the music I love most, using the tools and techniques that composers and players themselves would have used 200+ years ago. 

Thanks for being here and being a part our Northwest musical community. I look forward to chatting with all of you at our concerts and subscriber events!

Warmly, 

Lindsey Strand-Polyak