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Tokyo String Quartet
The Marine Biological Laboratory presents the 2004 Chamber Music Concert featuring the Tokyo String Quartet
Sunday, July 18 - 7:00 pm - Lillie Auditorium
"If the Tokyo String Quartet isn't the world's greatest chamber music ensemble, it's hard to imagine which group is."
- The Washington Post
The 2004 Chamber Music Concert will benefit the MBL's Science Journalism Program.
Concert Program:
- Mozart Quartet, K. 590
- Beethoven Quartet in F minor, Op. 95
- Intermission
- Ravel Quartet in F Major
A Candlelight Dinner will follow the concert on the Swope Center Terrace. This year's menu includes:
- salad of mixed field greens tossed with mandarin oranges and pineapples
- choice of pan seared sesame tuna with soy miso dressing served on wilted greens with asian coconut rice, or stuffed portabella mushroom served on a bed of wilted greens with red and green pepper confetti
- key lime calypso pie
- wine will be served with dinner
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The Tokyo String Quartet has captivated audiences and critics alike since it was founded more than 30 years ago at the Juilliard School of Music. One of the supreme chamber ensembles of the world, the Quartet is comprised of violist Kazuhide Isomura, a founding member of the group, second violinist Kikuei Ikeda, who joined the ensemble in 1974, cellist Clive Greensmith, formerly Principal Cellist of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who joined in 1999, and first violinist Martin Beaver who joined the ensemble in 2002.
The Tokyo String Quartet was the quartet-in-residence this season at the 92nd Street Y and was joined by guest soloists on each of its three programs there: double bassist Joel Quarrington, pianist Jon Kimura Parker and cellist Timothy Eddy, and countertenor Bejun Mehta. In January the quartet performed the world premiere of a work by Joan Panetti in Pasadena as part of the centennial celebration of the Coleman Chamber Music Association. Also in January, the quartet participated in Carnegie Hall’s “Making Music: Joan Tower” program at Weill Recital Hall, and in February appeared at Alice Tully Hall on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s quartet series. Highlights of recent seasons included a performance with pianist Alicia de Larrocha at Carnegie Hall, and an ambitious project that include performances of the complete string quartets and other chamber works of Brahms, interspersed with four new pieces commissioned by the quartet. The premiere of each new piece took place in the native country of its composer: Joan Tower (United States), José Luis Turina (Spain), Fabio Vacchi (Italy) and Hikaru Hayashi (Japan). The complete series was presented by the Tisch Center for the Arts at the 92nd Street Y in New York and at the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid.
The members of the Tokyo String Quartet have served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music since 1976 as quartet-in-residence. Deeply committed to teaching young string quartets, they devote a considerable amount of time at Yale during the academic year, and at the prestigious Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in the summer. They also regularly participate in masterclasses throughout North America.
The Tokyo String Quartet has released more than 30 landmark recordings, including the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, and Bartók. The Quartet’s recordings of Brahms, Debussy, Dvorák, Haydn, Mozart, Ravel, and Schubert have earned numerous honors, including seven Grammy nominations. The Tokyo String Quartet has also been featured on PBS’s Sesame Street and Great Performances, and CNN’s This Morning.
The Quartet performs on “The Paganini Quartet,” a group of renowned Stradivarius instruments named for legendary virtuoso Niccolò Paganini, who acquired and played them during the 19th century. The instruments have been loaned to the ensemble by the Nippon Music Foundation since 1995, when they were purchased from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Ticket Information
Tickets are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Click here to download an order form.
For more information call: (508) 289-7423. (No telephone reservations, please.)
Rush student tickets may be available for $10 the week before the concert. However, we cannot guarantee availability.
The MBL is a non-profit organization. All contributions to the Science Journalism Program are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Concert and dinner tickets are not tax-deductible.
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