David Ludwig’s “The Anchoress” | Chamber Music Northwest Summer Festival at Reed College, Kaul Auditorium

Rarely in one concert will you experience a string quartet with piano, a saxophone quartet, a woodwind quintet, and a poetic monodrama! Set to poetry by Portland native Katie Ford, The Anchoress combines a chorus of nine wind instruments with the human voice to explore the medieval mystic tradition called anchorism—with the remarkably expressive Hyunah Yu inhabiting the role of the Anchoress. CMNW Protégé alums, the Kenari Quartet, perform Quantum Shift, “an 8-minute virtuosic powerhouse” for saxophones. Pianist Stewart Goodyear and the Catalyst Quartet also uncover Florence Price’s lively Piano Quintet.