Guest Artist Series: Orion String QuartetGuest Artist Series: Orion String Quartethttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/97152Roberts Marshall Auditorium2009-09-26T20:00:002009-09-26T22:00:00
Roberts Marshall Auditorium
On Saturday, September 26 at 8 PM, the Guest Artist Series presents the Orion String Quartet in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium. Tickets are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Students), $5 (7-17) and free to the bi-college community.
Orion String Quartet and Leon Kirchner
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On Saturday, September 26th at 8:00 PM, the Guest Artist Series presents the Orion String Quartet performing the complete Leon Kirchner Quartets. There will be a pre-concert talk at 7:00 PM with Kirchner's biographer Robert Riggs. These events will be held in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium which is wheelchair accessible. Tickets are $15 (Gen), $12 (Sr), $8 (Students), $5 (7-17) and free to the bi-college community.
The Orion String Quartet is one of the most sought-after ensembles in the United States. Since its inception, the Orion String Quartet has been consistently praised for the fresh perspective and individuality it brings to performances, offering diverse programs that juxtapose classic works of the standard quartet literature with masterworks by living composers. They remain on the cutting edge of programming with their wide-ranging commissions from composers Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, Marc Neikrug, Peter Lieberson and Wynton Marsalis, and enjoy a creative partnership with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. With over fifty performances a year, the members of the Orion String Quartet - violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd Phillips (brothers who share the first violin chair equally), violist Steven Tenenbom and cellist Timothy Eddy - have worked closely with such legendary figures as Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Yo-Yo Ma, Peter Serkin, András Schiff, members of TASHI and the Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, Végh, Galimir and Guarneri String Quartets. The Orion serves as Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and New York's Mannes College of Music and is the Resident Quartet at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. "A noisy standing ovation is nothing rare, and these players certainly deserved theirs after the stellar performance. But silence can be an even better indicator of a powerful performance. (A)fter the Adagio in the Mendelssohn, the musicians managed to seduce the rustling, coughing, whispering audience into utterly silent awe." The New York Times, 2007
Leon Kirchner was one of the most eminent composers that America has ever produced. He was equally esteemed as a pianist, composer, and educator. Born in 1919 in Brooklyn, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, his 90th birthday was celebrated in a "Composer Portraits" series concert January 26th at Miller Theatre, Columbia University. In May he was awarded a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, of which he remains a long-standing member. Earlier last concert season, his newly commissioned orchestra work "The Forbidden" was premiered by the Boston Symphony under the direction of James Levine, and performed also at Carnegie Hall. The Orion Quartet recently released a new CD containing all of his string quartets. The Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and the Great Lake Chamber Music Society have both offered retrospective programs of his music, and a cult of young artists - the Claremont Trio, pianists Max Levinson, Jeremy Denk, Joel Fan, Jonathan Biss, violinists Corey Cerovsek and Ida Levin, to name several, join the ranks of flutist Paula Robison, pianists Peter Serkin and Leon Fleisher, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma in championing his compositions old and new. The long awaited biography by musicologist Robert Riggs is soon to be published. Leon Kircher died on September 17th, 2009.
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