Sunday, October 28,
2:00 p.m.

Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet has spent decades honing the luxurious sound for which it is famous. Formed 36 years ago, the Quartet has performed in all fifty states and has appeared in the most important concert halls worldwide. Their presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartók, and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim, and their MusicMasters’ Complete Mozart String Quartets, performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius, are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire. Their recordings can be heard on the Albany, CRI, MusicMasters, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch, and RCA labels.

Resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York since 1984, the American has also served as resident quartet at the Taos School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The Quartet's diverse activities have also included numerous international radio and television broadcasts, tours of Asia, and performances with the New York City Ballet, the Montreal Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the summer of 2010, the Quartet returned to Beijing for its fifth residency at the Great Wall International Music Academy. Last season, the Quartet again toured Israel followed by its 40th European tour, with appearances in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, and Italy. Outside the Quartet’s active performance and teaching schedule, the members devote time to solo appearances, recitals, and master classes.

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Chamber Music at the Clark

Peter Winograd, violin
Laurie Carney, violin
Daniel Avshalomov, viola
Wolfram Koessel, cello

Program:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
Selected Contrapuncti from The Art of Fugue,
BWV 1080

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
String Quartet no. 16 in F Major, op. 135,
“Muss Es Sein?”

Intermission

Béla Bartók (1881–1945)
String Quartet no. 6, Sz. 114

Reception

Reservation lottery submission deadline:
October 1, 2012
Admission: $25 per person.

A limited number of student seats are available at a discounted price of $10 per ticket for UCLA students only. Please see the reservation-by-lottery form for additional information.

Click here for the reservation-by-lottery form.

Chamber Music at the Clark is made possible by the generous support of the Ahmanson Foundation, Catherine Benkaim, the Edmund D. Edelman Foundation for Music and the Performing Arts, Mary and Donald Eversoll, Elizabeth and Gunter Herman, and Joyce Perry.

The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.