{"id":106338,"date":"2023-03-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?p=106338"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:58:32","slug":"wweek-amir-avsker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wweek-amir-avsker\/","title":{"rendered":"Willamette Week: All Classical Portland Announces Amir Avsker as Its 2023 Young Artist in Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spotlight-Amir-Avsker-2023YAIR.jpg\" alt=\"Violinist and pianist Amir Avsker\" class=\"wp-image-89633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spotlight-Amir-Avsker-2023YAIR.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spotlight-Amir-Avsker-2023YAIR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acp-website.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2023\/02\/spotlight-Amir-Avsker-2023YAIR-425x319.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p><em>By Bennett Campbell Ferguson for Willamette Week<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All Classical Portland has announced 16-year-old pianist, violinist and composer Amir Avsker as its 2023 young artist in residence, in addition to extending the residency of pianist Mar\u00eda Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis residency will be an extraordinary experience for me,\u201d stated Avsker in a press release. \u201cBut also for aspiring young musicians, whom I hope will be inspired and empowered to see the immense support for classical music in our community. The most important and enjoyable part of making music for me is working with other passionate musicians. With this title, I hope to bring together my generation of talented musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sophomore at Westview High School in Beaverton, Avsker began playing the piano in 2014 and the violin in 2019. A winner of multiple music competitions, he has written over 40 original compositions, including works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wweek.com\/music\/2023\/03\/07\/all-classical-portland-announces-amir-avsker-at-its-2023-young-artist-in-residence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wweek.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><i>By Bennett Campbell Ferguson for Willamette Week<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAll Classical Portland has announced 16-year-old pianist, violinist and composer Amir Avsker as its 2023 young artist in residence, in addition to extending the residency of pianist Mar\u00eda Garc\u00eda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":89633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4084,4996],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-classical-radio","category-press-coverage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-12-01 11:49:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106339,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106338\/revisions\/106339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}