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Crowden presents the Alexander String Quartet on Sunday, January 19, at 4pm.
Internationally acclaimed and locally beloved, the Alexander String Quartet stands among the world's premier ensembles. We are extremely excited to welcome these very special friends and frequent mentors back to Crowden's Sundays @ Four series. This concert is not-to-be missed!
Program:
Mozart Quartet in B-flat, KV 589
Shostakovich Quartet No. 4
Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 (with special guest pianist Jeffrey LaDeur)
Free Meet-the-Artists reception following the concert.
About Alexander String Quartet
The Alexander String Quartet has performed in the major music capitals of five continents, securing its standing among the worlds premier ensembles.
A major artistic presence in its home base of San Francisco, ASQ has served as Ensemble-in-Residence of San Francisco Performances and Directors of The Morrison Chamber Music Center at SF State since 1989. Widely admired for its interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich, the quartets recordings have won international critical acclaim. They have established themselves as important advocates of new music commissioning dozens of new works from composers including Jake Heggie, Cindy Cox, Augusta Read Thomas, Robert Greenberg, Cesar Cano, Tarik ORegan, Pulitzer Prize-winner Wayne Peterson, and most recently, Paul Siskind and Samuel Carl Adams.
The Alexander String Quartets annual calendar includes engagements at major halls throughout North America and Europe. They have appeared at Lincoln Center, the 92nd Street Y, and the Metropolitan Museum; Jordan Hall; the Library of Congress; and chamber music societies and universities across the North American continent including Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Lewis and Clark, Pomona, UCLA, the Krannert Center, Purdue and many more. Recent overseas tours include the U.K., the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, France, Greece, the Republic of Georgia, Argentina, Panamá, and the Philippines. Their recent return to Polands Beethoven Easter Festival is beautifully captured in the 2017 award-winning documentary, Con Moto: The Alexander String Quartet.
Distinguished musicians with whom the Alexander String Quartet has collaborated include pianists Joyce Yang, Roger Woodward, Menachem Pressler, Marc-André Hamelin, and Jeremy Menuhin; clarinetists Joan Enric Lluna, Richard Stoltzman, and Eli Eban; soprano Elly Ameling; mezzo-sopranos Joyce DiDonato and Kindra Scharich; violinist Midori; cellists Lynn Harrell, Sadao Harada, and David Requiro; and jazz greats Branford Marsalis, David Sanchez, and Andrew Speight. The quartet has worked with many composers including Aaron Copland, George Crumb, and Elliott Carter, and enjoys a close relationship with composer-lecturer Robert Greenberg, performing numerous lecture-concerts with him annually.
Recording for the FoghornClassics label, their release in 2018 of Mozarts Piano Quartets with Joyce Yang has received critical acclaim. (These are by far, hands down and feet up, the most amazing performances of Mozarts two piano quartets that have ever graced these ears Fanfare.) Other major releases have included the combined string quartet cycles of Bartók and Kodály (If ever an album had Grammy nominee written on its front cover, this is it. Audiophile Audition); the string quintets and sextets of Brahms with Toby Appel and David Requiro (a uniquely detailed, transparent warmth Strings Magazine); the Schumann and Brahms piano quintets with Joyce Yang (passionate, soulful readings of two pinnacles of the chamber repertory The New York Times); and the Beethoven cycle (A landmark journey through the greatest of all quartet cycles Strings Magazine). Their catalog also includes the Shostakovich cycle, Mozarts Ten Famous Quartets, and the Mahler Song Cycles in new transcriptions by Zakarias Grafilo.
The Alexander String Quartet formed in New York City in 1981, capturing international attention as the first American quartet to win the London International String Quartet Competition in 1985. The quartet has received honorary degrees from Allegheny College and Saint Lawrence University, and Presidential medals from Baruch College (CUNY). The Alexander plays on a matched set of instruments made in San Francisco by Francis Kuttner, known as the Ellen M. Egger quartet.
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LocationCrowden Music Center (View)
1475 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
United States
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