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Attacca Quartet with Irina Nuzova, Schumann Quartett, Cuarteto

Latinoamericano, Parker Quartet

Attacca Quartet with Irina Nuzova ● October 11

Schumann Quartett ● November 8

Cuarteto Latinoamericano ● March 14

Parker Quartet ● April 11

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Wednesday • October 11, 2017, 7:30 PM

Attacca Quartet with Irina Nuzova, piano

Johannes Brahms: Piano Trio in B Major, op. 8

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F Major, op. 77 no. 2

Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, op. 57

Amy Schroeder,violin Keiko Tokunaga, violin Nathan Schram, viola

Andrew Yee, celloIrina Nuzova, piano

“We’re living in a golden age of string quartets...It’shard to disagree when you hear the vibrant young

players in New York’s Attacca Quartet.” — NPR

First prize winners in the 7th Osaka International Chamber MusicCompetition in 2011, top prize winners and Listeners’ Choice awardrecipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber MusicCompetition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize in the 60thannual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, theinternationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’spremier young performing ensembles. Praised by The Strad for possessing“maturity beyond its members’ years,” they were formed at the JuilliardSchool in 2003 and made their professional debut in 2007 as part of theArtists International Winners Series in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.From 2011-2013 they served as the Juilliard Graduate Resident StringQuartet, and for the 2014-2015 season they were selected as the Quartetin Residence by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Wednesday • November 8, 2017, 7:30 PM

Schumann Quartett

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in G Major, op. 33 no. 5

Samuel Barber: Quartet in b-flat Minor, op. 11

Robert Schumann: Quartet in F Major, op. 41 no. 2

Erik Schumann, violinKen Schumann, violin Liisa Randalu, viola

Mark Schumann, cello

...playing "staggeringly well… with sparklingvirtuosity and a willingness to astonish." -

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Schumann Quartett has reached a stage where anything is possible,because it has dispensed with certainties. This also has consequences forthe listeners, who from concert to concert have to be prepared for alleventualities: “A work really develops only in a live performance,” thequartet says. “That is the 'real thing', because we ourselves never knowwhat will happen. On the stage, all imitation disappears, and youautomatically become honest with yourself. Then you can create a bondwith the audience – communicate with it in music.”-Los Angeles Times

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Wednesday • March 14, 2018, 7:30 PM

Cuarteto Latinoamericano

(Note: Program was changed on January 19 and corrected February 28and again March 9)

Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartet no. 6

Leo Brouwer: String Quartet no. 3

-- Intermission --

Francisco Mignone: Andante Cantabile

Miguel del Aguila: Presto II

Alejandro Cardona: Echü

Carlos Gardel: Volver and Por una Cabeza

Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

Saúl Bitrán, violin 1Arón Bitrán, violin 2Javier Montiel, violaAlvaro Bitrán, cello

"Matchless in tonal magnitude, tuneful fluency andconcentrated teamwork" - Washington Post

Cuarteto Latinoamericano is a world-renowned, multi-Latin Grammywinning string quartet from Latin America. They have toured extensively inEurope, the Americas, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. The recipientof a Mexican Music Critics Association award in 1983 and "mostadventurous programming" awards from CMA/ASCAP in 1997, 1999 and

2000, the group has introduced more than a hundred works written forthem and has participated in over a hundred world premieres.

Formed in Mexico in 1981, Cuarteto Latinoamericano was, from 1987 until2008, quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.They have collaborated with many artists including cellists János Starkerand Yehuda Hanani, pianists Santiago Rodriguez, Cyprien Katsaris, ItamarGolan and Rudolph Buchbinder, tenor Ramón Vargas, and guitarists NarcisoYepes, Sharon Isbin, David Tanenbaum and Manuel Barrueco. WithBarrueco, they have played in some of the most important venues of theUSA and Europe, have recorded two cds, and commissioned guitarquintets from American composers Michael Daugherty and Gabriela LenaFrank. The work by Frank, Inca Dances, won a Latin Grammy in 2009 forBest New Latin Composition.

Under the auspices of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles ofVenezuela, the Cuarteto has created the Latin American Academy forString Quartets, based in Caracas, which serves as a training ground forfive select young string quartets from the Sistema. The Cuarteto visits theAcademy four times a year. The Cuarteto Latinoamericano is representedby Sue Endrizzi Morris and Don Osborne, at California Artists Management.

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Wednesday • April 11, 2018, 7:30 PM

Parker Quartet

(Note: Program was changed on January 23)

Felix Mendelssohn: String Quartet op. 44 #2

Augusta Read Thomas: String Quartet "Helix Spiral", 3rd mvt

Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in B-Flat Major, op. 130, with Grosse Fuge op. 133

Daniel Chong, violin 1Miki Sophia Cloud, violin 2

Jessica Bodner, violaKee-Hyun Kim, cello

“something extraordinary”- New York Times“exceptional virtuosity [and] imaginative

interpretation” - Washington Post)

Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship arethe hallmarks of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. Renownedfor its dynamic interpretations and polished, expansive colors, the grouphas rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of itsgeneration. In demand worldwide, the Quartet has appeared at the mostimportant venues worldwide since its founding in 2002.

Following a 2016 summer season that had the ensemble crossing NorthAmerica for appearances at music festivals, including opening the RockportChamber Music Festival (MA) with the pianist Menahem Pressler, the Riteof Music Festival on New York’s Governor’s Island, Vermont’s Yellow BarnFestival, Toronto Summer Music Festival, the Garth Newell Music Center inVirginia, the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York, and the San Miguelde Allende International Chamber Music Festival in Mexico, the ParkerQuartet’s fall 2016 begins with the release of their own recording forNimbus Records of Mendelssohn’s Quartets Op. 44, Nos. 1 and 3.Highlights of the 2016-17 season include the ensemble’s ongoing concertseries at Harvard as the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence; a January 2017European tour featuring performances with violist Kim Kashkashian; andtwo concerts in Washington, DC: at the National Gallery of Art and withjazz pianist Billy Childs at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.Other performances also include Annapolis Concerts at St. John’s College,Mary Anne Rennolds Chamber Concert Series at VCU, concerts at SouthCarolina University as the School of Music’s Quartet-in-Residence, the LakeChamplain Chamber Music Festival, and the Philadelphia Chamber MusicSociety.

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