Sound Worlds: violinist Ilana Zaks

Sound Worlds is a one-hour program featuring music for violin and electronics. The

program features music by Hunter Prueger, ('Silent Moment'), Brannon Warn-Johnston

('A Year with Cancer), Patrick Long ('Shadow Steps'), and Aaron Levin (‘Videogame

Vespers’).

This program is intended to bring awareness to underrepresented composers

innovating sounds from their life experiences to one of the oldest existing instruments:

the violin. By telling these stories through their music in live performances, we are

allowed to reflect on our own lives, the sounds we hear, and how they appear in the

performing arts, while also hearing the brave stories of victims, survivors, and

underrepresented creatives.

This performance is generously sponsored by a Project Grant from the City of Bellevue for

2025-26.