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On Sunday, April 11, at 1 p.m., you won’t want to miss Miró Quartet violist and chef extraordinaire John Largess as he entertains Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival’s online audience with a free livestream cooking class, where he will teach us how to prepare Chicken Pot Pie. He’ll show us how to make the Rough Puff Pastry Crust and filling from scratch, and he’s also including a version for vegetarians. This is a free online event, but tickets are necessary. Tickets are available at oicmf.org.
John is an exquisite musician, and as anyone who has attended his lectures at past Orcas Island Chamber Music Festivals knows, he is also a fabulous speaker. Now you have the chance to enjoy John’s oratorical skills while learning to bake this most classic of comfort foods!
John enjoys preparing sumptuous foods, especially French pastries and fine desserts. A true renaissance man, he has a background in Greek and Latin literature and graduated from Yale University with a degree in archaeology. He also studied at the Hebrew University in Israel and participated in archaeological excavations in Greece, Israel, and Jordan before returning to the viola and focusing on his chamber music career.
John is a trained yoga instructor, having studied Vinyasa Power Yoga with Baron Baptiste. He also practices Kundalini, Bikram, and Astanga yoga styles, and teaches yoga in Austin, Texas, where he lives. When not standing on his head, he enjoys making his Tibetan Singing Bowl sing.
