The Hammond Performing Arts Series Presents the Arabella String Quartet

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (January 29, 2015) - Saul Cohen, President of Hammond Residential Real Estate in Chestnut Hill, is pleased to announce that the Arabella String Quartet will be performing works by Mendelssohn, Webern, Schubert, Shostakovich, Wolf, Puccini, Nielsen and Turina as part of the Hammond Performing Arts Series. The concert will take place on Sunday, February 8 at 3 p.m. at Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington. Admission is complimentary.

At their 2012 debut concert in Boston, the then-unnamed Arabella Quartet received a glowing review from The Boston Musical Intelligencer: “The group played like they had been together for years… with freedom, drive, and risk-taking that were quite astonishing in a debut performance… the luftpausen were taken with complete unanimity, the senza vibrato moments showed perfect tuning, and the sections with vibrato were actually synchronized… Though there are already plenty of fine quartets before the public, I nevertheless encourage this quartet sin nomine to get a name and a performing life.” And thus was born the Arabella String Quartet. Its members also enjoy varied individual careers. Julie Eskar is first concertmaster of the Danish National Chamber Orchestra. Sarita Kwok is the Chair of the Dept. of Music and Associate Professor at Gordon College. Ettore Causa is Professor of Viola at the Yale School of Music, and Alexandre Lecarme is a cellist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Hammond Performing Arts Series began in Chestnut Hill twenty years ago as a way to provide talented musicians with performance opportunities and to enrich the cultural life of the communities that Hammond’s network of offices serve. The series proved so successful in Chestnut Hill that it has been expanded to Boston, Concord, Hingham, Lexington, and Weston.

Reservations for the February 8 concert are currently being accepted. If you are interested in attending, please call 781-861-8100 x 1102.

To learn more, please visit http://www.hammondre.com/community-outreach/performing-arts-series.html

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