VIDEO: Musical Family Quartet Performs at Riverhead Library

Forget the Partridge family; the Polezhayev ensemble is a real musical family worth seeing.

Mother Yelena, father Vladimir, and sons Anton and Simon performed their virtuosic takes on classical and Latin music at the opening concert of the Piano Plus series at the Sunday afternoon.

The quartet played a variety of music from classical composers, their own adaptations of classical songs and original works during the Friends of the Library-sponsored event in the library's basement meeting room. The audience, mostly elderly residents, hummed approval in hushed voices as the quartet played a program that included Listz and Paganini.

Yelena and Vladimir Polezhayev met in Russia while studying at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. They moved to New York in 1990. Making their home in Sea Cliff, they have performed across New York and co-founded the Concert Festival for Young Musicians.

Their older son, Anton, is an award-winning violinist who was one of the winners in the Paganini International Violin Competition in Paris, France in 1997. Anton was a member of the New Jersey Symphonic Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic and teaches master classes in violin across the Tri-State area.

Simon, who plays double bass, recently graduated from the Juilliard school. He began playing the piano when he was just 3 years old and took up the bass when he was 13. He is currently enrolled in a two-year master's program with the principal bass of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.