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The West End String Quartet is a fresh, young quartet based out of Boston and Hartford. The Quartet (Jessica Meyer and Sarah Washburn, violins, Russell Wilson, viola, and Carlynn Savot, cello) came together in the fall of 2005 because of their shared passion for chamber music. Since then, the quartet has been entertaining audiences across New England with an exciting and varied repertoire of chamber music.
Highlights of the past year include performances on the River Crossings Concert Series (Hartford) and for the Arts Institute of Western Maine. The quartet also traveled to Baltimore to perform Ruby Fulton's "The Slow Revolution". Repeat performances of this work were sponsored by an Encore grant from the ACF.
The upcoming season includes competing in the MTNA chamber music competition in Pittsburgh, as well as return performances at The Universalist Church of West Hartford, River Crossings Concert Series, and with the Arts Institute of Western Maine. The Quartet will also be performing on the "Ives Vocal Marathon" series at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT.
Artist's Statement:
WESQ strives to bring new and uncommon repertoire to their concerts, pairing them with traditional works. Each concert includes spoken notes that give a personal perspective to each piece, making unfamiliar works accessible to new audiences as well as seasoned classical music-lovers.
Recent Works:
Recent performances have included:
Ruby Fulton: "The Slow Revolution" (sponsored by an ACF Encore grant)
Lukas Foss: String Quartet in G
Astor Piazzolla: Four, for Tango
Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze
Debussy: String Quartet
Barber: String Quartet
Copland: Movement, for string quartet
Steve Kornicki: Horizontal Color Form #15
Ives: Aeschylus and Sophocles (for quartet with soprano and piano)
Ives: Scherzo
Ives: Hymn (quartet with bass)
Stravinsky: Concertino
Webern: Langsamer Satz
as well as old favorites by
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
I added a sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 2 (THE GATHERING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet on the attached flash audio player (also located further down my MySpace page or at www. reverbnation. com/christoshatzis) and I would like to invite you to listen to it. A sample of my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) is still available on the original MySpace audio player. Thank you for the friendship and...
Thank you very much for adding me to your circle of friends. Very beautiful playing.
I would like to invite you to listen to my STRING QUARTET NO. 1 (THE AWAKENING) performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet and two of my piano trios performed by the Gryphon Trio: ODD WORLD, on my audio player and OLD PHOTOGRAPHS on the Gryphon Trio site (www. myspace. com/gryphontrio.)
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Thanks for becoming a friend. I like your playing very much and REALLY like your artistic statement and list of 20th century works performed. Please check out my own String Quartet compositions when you have a chance at johnolivermusic dot com.
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THE LITTLE MERMAID
Music by LERA AUERBACH
Choreography by JOHN NEUMEIER
Hamburg Ballet - Staatsoper Hamburg
July 1, 3, 14 • 2007
September 3, 4, 5, 6 • 2007
November 3, 5 • 2007
February 5 • 2008
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