Chamber Concert at the Woods Hole Public Library

Chamber Concert at the Woods Hole Public Library

August 18, 8 PM

$ 25

With great pleasure, the Woods Hole Public Library welcomes back the “Geostrophic String Quartet” for their 2^nd consecutive summer appearance. The GSQ, who sometimes perform as the “Nonantum Hill String Quartet,” premiered at the Library in last year’s Fuglister Retrospective, in conjunction with  the Woods Hole Historical Museum’s 2011 feature exhibit.

The quartet was formed by Bill Simmons, cellist, a longtime supporter of Woods Hole Library. Bill, who is now retired, joined Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s physical oceanography department as an Assistant Scientist in 1969, founded the Woods Hole Library’s Chamber Music Series in 1979, and produced and directed that series through the mid 1990s, performing in it regularly. He estimates that in the past 30 years he has performed as much as 50 times at the Library.

The GSQ’s violinists are David Hobbie and Matthew Liebendorfer, who alternate between first and second violin within the quartet. Both are Oberlin Conservatory Graduates.

David, a member of the Massachusetts Bar and Litigation Knowledge Manager for the Boston firm Goodwin Procter LLP, grew up in Falmouth and graduated from Falmouth Academy. For the past 30 years, he has been a familiar performer in myriad local musical productions, including the Woods Hole Public Library’s Chamber Music Series. He blogs on musical matters at massachusettsmusician.wordpress.com and lives in Acton with his wife Jeanne, daughter Svetlana, and dog Kody.

Matthew, who hails from Boise Idaho, is an active and prominent violinist in the New England chamber music scene. For the past 4 years, he has directed and participated in “Heaven,” widely regarded as the country’s most coveted summer chamber music festival. By day, he pursues a career in business technology integration, specializing in relational database technology implementation. He is an avid skier and lives in Newton with his wife Kerrie and their four children.

Evie McFadden was trained as a violinist and music educator at West Chester State University in Pennsylvania. A life-long devotee of chamber music, she plays viola in the GSQ on an instrument built in 2007 by Falmouth’s Fred Nichy. She is Director of Training at Health Management Resources, a Boston-based firm that designs weight and health management programs for medical centers across the country. For the most part, she lives and gardens atop Nonantum Hill in Brighton with her husband, Bill Simmons. In summer, they favor Onset’s Sunset Cove.

The quartet will perform early works by Joseph Haydn (Op 20/2) and Ludwig Beethoven (Op 18/5), and a late work by Antonin Dvorak (Op 96), written in America during his tenure as Director of the National Conservatory of Music of America in NYC.

Doors will open at 7:30 and the music will begin at 8pm. Tickets, which are $ 25 each, will  be available at the Library, the Bank  of Woods Hole, and Eight Cousins, and at the door as long as they last.

For more information, call the Library at 508-548-8961 or view the website at www.woodsholepubliclibrary.org.