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Biava Quartet
Mary Persin, Hyunsu Ko, Austin Hartman, Jason Calloway
Friday, September 11, 2009 - 8pm
NEIU Fine Arts Recital Hall
Program: Schubert Quartettsatz
Barber Adagio
Ginastera Quartet #1, Op. 20
Mendelssohn String Quartet in f minor, Op. 80
 
Garrop String Quartet no. 2 Haydn Quartet in Eb
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The Biava Quartet is recognized as one of today’s most exciting young American string quartets. Winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and top prizes at the Premio Borciani and London International Competitions, the Quartet will present a program that includes Schubert’s Quartettsatz, Barber’s Adagio, Ginastera’s Quartet No.1, Op. 20, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet in f minor, Op. 80. Since establishing an enthusiastic following in the United States and abroad, the Biava Quartet has impressed audiences with its sensitive artistry and communicative powers. Formed in 1998 at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the quartet takes its name from Maestro Luis Biava, a mentor since its inception. In addition to its performance of the classical repertoire, the Biava Quartet also dedicates much of its efforts to the creation and performance of contemporary works, championing the music of American composers Mason Bates, William Bolcom, John Harbison, Ezra Laderman, and Stacy Garrop, whose Second String Quartet it has premiered and recorded. As ensemble in residence at the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society this season, the Biava Quartet is involved in an ambitious commissioning project which will yield four new works written expressly for the ensemble. They are equally devoted to interdisciplinary work, including a dramatization of the life of Emily Dickinson set to the music of Amy Beach with Ensemble for the Romantic Century, as well as the inaugural concerts in Washington, D.C. of Pro Musica Hebraica, a new organization founded for the dissemination of Jewish art music.
The quartet holds the Lisa Arnhold Quartet Residency at the Juilliard School.
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