From www.artscenter.org:
This performance is part of our new Chamber Sundays series, hosted by renowned National Public Radio personality Bill McGlaughlin. An accomplished musician, conductor and composer, McGalughlin will frame the performance, offering context and insight and guiding the Q&A. Each performance will be followed by a reception with the artists.
In the 23 years since its founding, the Orion String Quartet has become one of the most sought-after ensembles for whom composers ranging from Chick Corea, John Harbison and Leon Kirchner to Wynton Marsalis, have been commissioned. They also have partnered with such musical luminaries as Pablo Casals, Rudolf Serkin, Yo-Yo Ma and Andras Schiff. In addition to their busy concert schedule, the ensemble also is quartet-in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Mannes College of Music.
PROGRAM
J.S. Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus I
Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5
Schubert: Quartet in G major, Op. 161 (D. 887)
Daniel Phillips, violin Todd Phillips, violin
Steven Tenenbom, viola Timothy Eddy, cello
"Memo to the chamber music world: emulate the Orion String Quartet." – Pittsburgh Post Gazette
"The power, finesse and emotional fervor of the Orion String Quartet transfigured the new and the old alike into something majestic." – Dallas Morning News
"Four strong personalities in total rapport, with all the technical equipment necessary to the most demanding music … there would seem no limit to how far this quartet can go." – Strings Magazine
