Sunday March 11
2:00 p.m.

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009—2011 seasons.

Successful early concert touring in Europe helped the quartet forge a relationship with Zig-Zag Territoires, which released their debut commercial recording of Bartók’s String Quartets nos. 2 and 5 in July 2007. The disc received high praise by numerous critics including Gramophone: “The Parkers’ Bartok spins the illusion of spontaneous improvisation… they have absorbed the language; they have the confidence to play freely with the music and the instinct to bring it off.” The quartet’s second recording, of György Ligeti’s String Quartets nos. 1 and 2 and Andante & Allegretto, was released on Naxos in December 2009. The Ligeti recording won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

The Parker Quartet has been spotlighted for their pioneering performances for audiences in non-traditional venues. In addition to concerts in bars and clubs nationwide, the ensemble was the first String Quartet-in-Residence at Barbès Bar and Performance Space in Brooklyn, New York, in 2007. The residency embraced a series of collaborative concerts with artists of various genres including jazz, folk, and world music.

www.parkerquartet.com

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Chamber Music at the Clark

Daniel Chong, violin
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello

Program:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756—1791)
String Quartet no. 23 in F Major, K. 590

Leoš Janáček (1854—1928)
String Quartet no. 2, Intimate Letters

Intermission

Robert Schumann (1810—1856)
String Quartet no. 3 in A Major, op. 41

Reception

Reservation lottery submission deadline:
February 3, 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.