The Russian Chamber Music Foundation of Seattle (RCMFS) was founded in 2007 and has brought well known performers and groups to the

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...

music scene, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Erin Keefe, Arnaud Sussmann, Joshua Roman and Amos Yang. The organization specializes in the promotion of

Russian music Music of Russia denotes music produced from Russia and/or by Russians. Russia is a large and culturally diverse country, with many ethnic groups, each with their own locally developed music. Russian music also includes significant contributions ...

including solo and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

genres performed at

Benaroya Hall Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. It features two auditoria, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2500-seat performance venue, as well as the Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital H ...

in downtown

. The artistic director, Natalya Ageyeva, studied at the Moscow Conservatory and

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

and has performed throughout the

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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, and

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.Natalya Ageyeva
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* 2007 establishments in Washington (state) Chamber music groups Non-profit organizations based in Seattle Musical groups from Seattle Organizations established in 2007 {{Washington-stub