THE IVES STRING QUARTET Announces its 6th season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 26, 2004
Please Contact:
Nora Yam
www.ivescollective.org
THE IVES STRING QUARTET
Announces its 6th season
Palo Alto, CA – The Ives String Quartet is pleased to announce its 2004-05 Home Season Series. Programming for the year will feature encore collaborations with guest artists Jon Nakamatsu and Dimitri Ashkenazy, the American premiere of a new clarinet quintet by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, and a recent composition by the newest member of the G. Schirmer catalog, Bay Area composer Gabriela Lena Frank.
Formerly in residence at Stanford University as the Stanford String Quartet since 1983, the Ives Quartet departed the university in September of 1998 to seek greater artistic independence. A fully independent touring and recording ensemble, the Ives Quartet now performs home season concert series in San Francisco, Palo Alto and San Jose, is quartet-in-residence at the Rocky Ridge Music Festival in Colorado, and appears on noted chamber music series and festivals nationwide.
The Ives Quartet combines the talent and experience of the international, solo, orchestral, chamber music and recording careers of its artist members – Robin Sharp, Susan Freier, Scott Woolweaver and Stephen Harrison. Each player is an acclaimed performer on his/her instrument, earning distinction with other renowned chamber music ensembles including the Chester Quartet, the Boston Composers’ String Quartet, the New England Piano Quartette and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. This variety and breadth in each artist’s background contributes to the ensemble’s unique sound.
The Quartet has captivated audiences from San Francisco to New York, Taiwan to London. Committed to presenting the full scope of the string quartet literature, the Quartet continues to earn critical and popular acclaim for depth and diversity of its programming, with repertoire ranging from recognized classics and neglected masterpieces of the past to new commissions and distinctive collaborations with guest artists. Their recordings, which appear on the Laurel Record, Music and Arts and AIX Entertainment labels, feature rarely performed, contemporary and commissioned works.
The 2004-05 season’s programs:
FALL
Mozart: Quartet in Eb Major, K.428
Gabriela Lena Frank: An Andean Walkabout (2001)
Ravel: Quartet in F
WINTER (with guest artist Jon Nakamatsu)
Beethoven: Quartet in C minor, Op.18, No.4
Erwin Schulhoff: Quartet No.1 (1924)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op.81
SPRING (with guest artist Dimitri Ashkenazy)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor, Op.13
Beethoven: Quartet in F Major, Op.135
Peter Maxwell Davies: Clarinet Quintet (American premier) (2004)
Concert information:
FALL
DATE: Sunday, September 26, 2004, 2pm
LOCATION: California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, San Francisco
TICKETS: $25.00 general, $20 seniors, $15.00 students, (415) 392-4400
DATE: Saturday, October 9, 2004, 8pm
LOCATION: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
TICKETS: $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students, (650) 328-0990
DATE: Sunday, October 10, 2004, 7pm
LOCATION: Le Petit Trianon Theatre, 72 North 5th Street, San Jose
TICKETS: $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students, (650) 328-0990
WINTER (with guest pianist Jon Nakamatsu)
DATE: Friday, February 4, 2005, 8pm
LOCATION: Le Petit Trianon Theatre, 72 North 5th Street, San Jose
TICKETS: $30 adult, $20 students, (650) 328-0990
DATE: Sunday, February 6, 2005, 2pm
LOCATION: Jewish Community Center, Kanbar Hall, 3200 California St., San Francisco
TICKETS: $30 adult, $20 students, (415) 292-1233
SPRING (with guest clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy)
DATE: Friday, April 29, 2005, 8pm
LOCATION: Old First Church, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco
TICKETS: For info. call (415) 474-1608. Tickets purchased at the door
DATE: Saturday, April 30, 2005, 8pm
LOCATION: St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
TICKETS: $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students, (650) 328-0990
DATE: Sunday, May 1, 2005, 7pm
LOCATION: Le Petit Trianon Theatre, 72 North 5th Street, San Jose
TICKETS: $25 general, $20 seniors, $15 students, (650) 328-0990
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