Cal Performances At Home: Dover Quartet [NEWLY RECORDED] (broadcast on-demand until 3/10/2021)
$15 ($68 "What It Would Have Cost", $5 UCB student)
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106, B. 192
Franz Joseph Haydn — String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76, No. 2, Hob. III:76 "Quinten" ("Fifths")
Joel Link, violin
Bryan Lee, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Camden Shaw, cello
Franz Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in D minor Op. 76, No. 2 "Quinten"
György Ligeti – String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes"
Antonín Dvořák – String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106, B. 192
Heralded as “the young American string quartet of the moment” by The New Yorker, the Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition, at which they took home every prize. Winner of the Cleveland Quartet Award and honored with a coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world, praised for finding clarity in complex works, with an incisive rhythmic sense and an uncommon sensitivity to color and phrasing. The quartet was recently appointed as the first Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, a post designed to integrate teaching and performance with state-of-the art digital technologies – and this online Cal Performances concert promises to be one of the early products of this new creative endeavor. In this program, the musicians will play one of Haydn’s most ambitious quartets; Ligeti’s first string quartet, composed while he was still living in communist Hungary; and Dvořák’s poetic and expressive penultimate quartet.
This video will premiere December 10, 2020, 7pm Pacific and will be available on demand until March 10, 2021, 11:59pm Pacific.
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About Dover Quartet
Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the GRAMMY® nominated Dover Quartet has followed a “practically meteoric” (Strings) trajectory to become one of the most in-demand chamber ensembles in the world. In addition to its faculty role as the Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy Center, Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Artosphere, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Its prestigious honors include the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Family Award.
Joel Link, violin |
Bryan Lee, violin |
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola |
Camden Shaw, cello