Jessica Lynn Thompson – Upcoming Concerts
Violist Jessica Lynn Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad as a member of the Daedalus Quartet. The quartet, Grand Prize winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, is in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. The Daedalus Quartet has premiered works by composers such as Fred Lerdahl, Joan Tower, Richard Wernick, and Lawrence Dillon. In addition to performing with the Daedalus Quartet, Ms. Thompson has toured with Musicians from Marlboro, appears regularly at the Portland (Maine) Chamber Music Festival, and performs often with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Thompson currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia Universities.
Library of Congress presents The (Effortless) Now: Dances of Erick Hawkins & Lucia Dlugoszewski
Lucia Dlugoszewski — Cantilever (for solo piano with 4 dancers; choreography by Erick Hawkins)
Lucia Dlugoszewski — Disparate Stairway Radical Other (for string quartet with 5 dancers; with choreography 'Elusive Pierce' by Katherine Duke)
Mieczysław Weinberg — String Quartet No. 8 in C major, Op. 66
Free (RSVP required)