The two best friends of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival
by Mary Taylor Special to the Sounder Chamber music is often called “the music of friends,” and nowhere is this more true than here on Orcas Island. Just look to the two women leading Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival: Aloysia Friedmann, Founder and Artistic Director, and her lifelong friend, Board President Lisa Bergman. The two met as teens in Seattle at the Cornish School, Lisa on piano, Aloysia on violin. Lisa recalls Aloysia as “self-possessed, focused, though not without her […]
