Guest Artist Series: Daedalus String QuartetGuest Artist Series: Daedalus String Quartethttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/97142Roberts Marshall Auditorium2010-02-21T15:00:002010-02-21T17:00:00
February 21, 3:00PM
Roberts Marshall Auditorium
On Sunday, February 21 at 3 PM, the Guest Artist Series presents the Daedalus String Quartet in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium.
The Daedalus String Quartet
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On Sunday, February 21st at 3 PM, Guest Artist Series presents the Daedalus String Quartet in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium. Their program will include Mozart's String Quartet in Bb Major, K589, Joan Tower's Night Fields (1994), and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 131. The concert will be held in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium. Tickets are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Students), $5 (7-17) and free to the bi-college community.
Praised by The New Yorker (July 21, 2008) as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” the DAEDALUS QUARTET has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles. In the nine years of its existence the Daedalus Quartet has received plaudits from critics and listeners alike for the security, technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances — and this in cannily selected repertoire ranging from the classicism of Haydn to the rhythmic complexities and intuitive tonal language of Elliott Carter “Polished and vigorous” (The New York Times); “a young quartet whose moment has arrived” (The New York Sun); “jet-propelled rockets of blistering virtuosity …the music rang gloriously” (The Washington Post) — these are only a few of the accolades garnered by the Daedalus Quartet in recent seasons
Since its founding the Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the world’s leading musical venues; in the United States and Canada these include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Great Performers series), the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Abroad the ensemble has been heard in such famed locations as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan. The Daedalus Quartet has won plaudits for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music, most notably the compositions of Elliott Carter, George Perle, György Kurtág, and György Ligeti. The Quartet has also collaborated with some of the world’s finest instrumentalists: These include pianists Marc-André Hamelin, Simone Dinnerstein, Awadagin Pratt, Joyce Yang, and Benjamin Hochman; clarinetists Paquito D’Rivera and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald Weilerstein.
To date the Quartet has forged associations with some of America’s leading classical music and educational institutions: Carnegie Hall, through its European Concert Hall Organization (ECHO) Rising Stars program; and Lincoln Center, which appointed the Daedalus Quartet as the Chamber Music Society Two quartet for 2004-06. The Daedalus Quartet has been Columbia University’s Quartet-in-Residence since 2005, and has served as Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania since 2006. The Quartet won Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Award, which funded a three-year residency in Suffolk County, Long Island.
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