Trio Musicorum Medicorum and Cherry City String Quartet in a Free Chamber
Concert Sunday, March 15 at Atonement Lutheran Church at 2:00pm
The Oregon Coast Symphony Festival announces its second free Sunday afternoon Chamber Concert of the 2026 season featuring the Trio Musicorum Medicorum and the Cherry City String Quartet on Sunday, March 15 at 2:00pm in Atonement Lutheran Church located at 2315 N Hwy. 101 in Newport.
Trio Musicorum Medicorum is a nationally renowned classical group includes Rebecca Reese, cello, Andrew Bonner, piano and Newport Symphony violinist Alistair Kok. The group calls itself “Trio Musicorum Medicorum,” because each member has a “day job” in the medical field in the Portland area. Dr. Kok is a dentist, Dr. Bonner is a naturopath, and Dr. Reese is a physician currently specializing in cranial osteopathy and homeopathy.
Although the group has performed together for several years, each musician has an illustrious and extensive individual career. Andrew Bonner has degrees in music from Harvard and Brandeis Universities. He concurrently studied piano at the New England Conservatory of Music. Alistair Kok was born and spent his formative years in Blacksburg, Virginia. He holds degrees from Virginia Tech, the Ohio State University College of Dentistry and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has performed professionally with orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout New England, Ohio and Virginia. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 2015 and joined the Newport Symphony as a core member and first violinist. He plays regularly as a violinist and violist with the Vancouver, Yakima and Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestras. Rebecca Reese studied cello at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Denver. She taught cello at the University of Alaska and then moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a freelance musician for many years. She performed in numerous classical orchestras and chamber music ensembles, as well as playing studio-recorded soundtracks and background music for television and movies. They will be performing Franz Joseph Haydn’s Trio in E-flat Major,
Opening the concert will be the Cherry City String Quartet a talented group of Salem area high school student musicians featuring Ai Nguyen and Audrey Howard, violins Zoe Ditzel, viola and Elena Harchanko, cello. They will perform the String Quartet No. 12, Opus 96, the “American” by Antonin Dvorak Movements 1, 2 & 4.