EXPERIENCE THE 2021–2022 SEASON
We are thrilled to welcome you back to McVinney Auditorium for a season filled with chamber music masterworks both familiar and new that will captivate your imagination.
"LIKE ALL GREAT CHAMBER GROUPS, THE CATALYST QUARTET IS BEAUTIFUL TO WATCH, LIKE A FAMILY IN LIVELY CONVERSATION AT THE DINNER TABLE: ANTICIPATING, INTERRUPTING, CHANGING SUBJECTS."
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NEW YORK TIMES
The Catalyst Quartet
October 14, 2021
7:30 PM
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$130 4-concert subscription
$10 STUDENTS
Jessie Montgomery
Strum
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Fantasie-Stücke
Florence B. Price
Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
Florence B. Price
String Quartet in G major
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
String Quartet No. 1, “Calvary”
“Turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life, ‘Strum’ sounded like a handful of American folk melodies tossed into a strong wind, cascading and tumbling joyfully around one another.” - Washington Post
About the Artists
Abi Fayette, violin
Karla Donehew Perez, violin
Paul Laraia, viola
Karlos Rodriguez, cello
Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished… playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet believes in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.
It has toured widely throughout the United States and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Chicago’s Harris Theater, Miami’s New World Center, and Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The Catalyst Quartet’s latest project is UNCOVERED, a multi-volume set of albums to be released on Azica Records. The initiative celebrates beautifully crafted works by artists who have been overlooked and sidelined in classical music, especially because of their race or gender.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$130 4-CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION
$10 STUDENT TICKETS
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid home test taken within 72-hours before this performance is required to enter. Masks must be worn at all times. Patrons attending together will be seated together in a socially distanced configuration. ADA accessible seating can be reserved as always.
"ONE OF TODAY’S BEST QUARTETS IN THE WORLD...BALANCE, TRANSPARENCY, SYMPHONIC COMPREHENSION, CONFIDENT STYLE, THEIR PERFORMANCE HAS REACHED A VERY HIGH AND INSPIRING LEVEL."
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SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG
The Modigliani Quartet
November 4, 2021
7:30 PM
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$130 4-CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION
$10 STUDENTS
Wolfgang Mozart
String Quartet No. 17, K. 458, “The Hunt”
Béla Bartók
String Quartet No. 3
Edvard Grieg
String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
"THE QUARTET'S PLAYING WAS STYLISH BUT NOT FADDISH, INFUSED WITH FINE SHADES AND INEFFABLE SOPHISTICATION." – SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
About the Artists
Amaury Coeytaux, violin
Loic Rio, violin
Laurent Marfaing, viola
François Kieffer, cello
The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani, founded in 2003, is respected around the world for its impassioned playing and sophisticated approach to classic repertoire. This season, the quartet will tour North America and extensively throughout Europe. Highlights include appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Vienna’s Musikverein, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the Auditorio Nacional de Música CNDM in Madrid, Pollack Hall in Montreal, Flagey Hall in Brussels, the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, following many European summer music festivals, including the Vibre Festival in Bordeaux. The quartet has been recording for the Mirare label since 2008 and has released twelve critically acclaimed and award-winning albums.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$10 Student Tickets
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid home test within 72-hours before this performance is required to enter. Masks must be worn at all times. Patrons attending together will be seated together in a socially distanced configuration. ADA accessible seating can be reserved as always.
"AN EVENING OF MUSICAL PERFECTION."
– THE ROYAL GAZETTE
Frisson Ensemble
March 24, 2022
7:30 PM
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$130 4-CONCERT SUBSCRIPTION
$10 STUDENTS
Claude Debussy
Syrinx, for solo flute
Johannes Brahms
Serenade No. 1, Op. 11
Leoš Janáček
Mladi for wind sextet
Benjamin Britten
Phantasy Quartet for oboe and strings
George Gershwin
3 Preludes for clarinet and strings
"Be it on the violin, viola, cello, flute, oboe, or clarinet, in solo or combination, the musicians showed both individual brilliance and collective versatility. Frisson Artistic Director Thomas Gallant was excellence personified, punctuated by his charm, grace, and especially humor in speaking to the audience." – BORREGO SUN
About the Artists ~
Gergana Haralampieva, violin
Colin Brookes, viola
Serafim Smigelskiy, cello
Sam Suggs, double bass
Anna Urrey, flute
Tom Gallant, oboe
Yoonah Kim, clarinet
Nuno Antunes, bass clarinet
Remy Taghavi, bassoon
Eric Huckins, horn
Hailing from New York City, Frisson features the best and brightest of classical music's rising stars, all recent graduates of Juilliard, Curtis, Yale, and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program, which trains the finest young musicians for a chamber music career. The ensemble showcases a wide variety of works from trios to nonets, from standard works for strings and winds to exciting new music, and their own eclectic array of arrangements.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$10 Student Tickets
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid home test within 72-hours before this performance is required to enter. Masks must be worn at all times. Patrons attending together will be seated together in a socially distanced configuration. ADA accessible seating can be reserved as always.
"The Poulenc Trio brought an intriguing and beautifully played program...urbane and sophisticated with near-effortless lightness and grace." –WASHINGTON POST
The Poulenc Trio
May 12, 2022
7:30 PM
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$10 STUDENTS
George Handel:
Trio Sonata in F major
Mikhail Glinka
Trio Pathétique
Francis Poulenc
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Dmitri Shostakovich
Romance, "A Spin through Moscow"
Charles Triébert/Eugene Jancourt
Fantaisie Concertante on themes from
Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini
"The Poulenc Trio’s performance was shot through with an irrepressible sweetness...
musicians whose playing brought the near-capacity crowd to its feet!” – TULSA WORLD
About the Artists ~
Irina Kaplan Lande, piano
Alexander Vvedenskiy, oboe
Bryan Young, bassoon
The Poulenc Trio has rediscovered and redefined piano-wind chamber music for the 21st century. The Trio is committed to commissioning, performing, and recording new works from contemporary composers. It has greatly expanded the repertoire available for the oboe, bassoon, and piano, with more than twenty new works written or arranged for the group, including three triple concertos for trio and full orchestra. The Poulenc has also made a commitment to explore and promote music that reflects its members’ African, Asian, Eastern European, and Jewish roots.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$35 GENERAL ADMISSION
$10 Student Tickets
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 PCR or rapid home test within 72-hours before this performance is required to enter. Masks must be worn at all times. Patrons attending together will be seated together in a socially distanced configuration. ADA accessible seating can be reserved as always.
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