Sunday November 6
2:00 p.m.

The New Zealand String Quartet was formed in 1987. Since then, the quartet has distinguished itself through imaginative programming, insightful interpretations of the string quartet repertoire including cycles of composers’ music from Mozart to Berg. It has also developed an international audience for important new works from New Zealand composers.

Recent career highlights include acclaimed debuts in London at Wigmore Hall, in New York at the prestigious Frick Collection, and in Washington, DC in the Library of Congress series. International tours and festival successes have taken the group to Canada and the United States for twice-yearly visits as well as to Mexico, Korea, Australia, England, Scotland, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Quartet members play a central role in the biennial Adam Chamber Music Festival in Nelson, New Zealand; two members of the Quartet are artistic directors of this festival and the ensemble plays in many of the concerts of the ten-day event, working with international guest artists. 

The New Zealand String Quartet has recently brought its interpretative skill to a major project to record all of Mendelssohn’s string quartets in a three-volume CD set for Naxos. The group’s extensive discography includes works from the standard quartet repertoire by composers such as Bartók, Ravel, Debussy, Beethoven, Dvořák, Berg and Wolf, as well as the premiere recording of the remarkable Zoltan Székely quartet.

Dedicated teachers as well as performers, the group has been quartet-in-residence at Victoria University of Wellington, now the New Zealand School of Music, since 1991. In North America they have been artist/teachers-in-residence at the Banff Center, Quartet Fest West, and the Quartet Program at Bucknell in Pennsylvania.

www.nzsq.co.nz

The New Zealand String Quartet is supported by the following sponsors:

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Chamber Music at the Clark

The New Zealand String Quartet
Helene Pohl, violin
Douglas Beilman, violin
Gillian Ansell, viola
Rolf Gjelsten, cello

Program:

Franz Joseph Haydn
Quartet no. 53 in D Major "The Lark,"
op. 64, no. 5, Hob III: 63

Béla Bartók
String Quartet no. 4 in C Major, BB 95 (Sz. 91)

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet no. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 131

Reception

Reservation lottery submission deadline:
September 30, 2011
Admission: $25 per person.

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.