THE IVES STRING QUARTET Home Season Spring Series With Guest Clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2003
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Tom Giuliano
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THE IVES STRING QUARTET
Home Season Spring Series
With Guest Clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy
Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Also
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
Efram Zimbalist, String Quartet in E Minor
May 3, Sat. (California Palace of the Legion Honor, San Francisco), 2 pm
May 4, Sun. (San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose), 2 pm
May 9, Fri. (First Congregational Church, Palo Alto), 8 pm
May 10, Sat.(Julia Morgan Theatre, Berkeley), 2 pm
Palo Alto, CA – The Ives String Quartet features its Spring Series of their 2003 Home Concert Season with Guest Clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy will perform the Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 by Johannes Brahms. Also on the program is the String Quartet in D Minor, K 421 by Mozart and the String Quartet in E Minor by Efram Zimbalist. Performances are Saturday, May 3, 2pm at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theatre, Lincoln Park, San Francisco; Sunday, May 4, 2pm at the San Jose Museum of Art; Friday, May 9, 8pm at the First Congregational Church, Palo Alto and Saturday, May 10, 2pm at the Julia Morgan Theatre in Berkley.
Dimitri Ashkenazy started his musical education in the form of piano lessons at the age of six, he subsequently changed to the clarinet at the age of ten under the guidance of Giambattista Sisini. In 1989 he entered Sisini’s class at the Conservatory of Luzern where he completed his studies “with Distinction” in 1993. 1991 marked the beginning of his international career with concerts in Rome, Bologna, Milan, Lisbon and Palermo as well as his London debut at the Wigmore Hall with his brother Vovka Stamper. His engagements have included appearances at such prestigious venues as the Hollywood Bowl, the Royal Festival in London, the Sydney Opera; ensembles such as the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Barbara Bonney, Peter Maxwell Davies, Krzysztof Penderecki among many others.
Engagements for Mr. Ashkenazy during the 2002-2003 season include a tour in California with the Ives Quartet and performances with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Vienna Konzertverein, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana.
The Ives Quartet has attached international and popular acclaim both nationally and internationally and based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The ensemble has appeared most recently at the Festival of Chamber Music in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It has also performed at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Princeton University, the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles, St. John’s Smith Square in London and at the Sedona Chamber Music Festival in Estes Park, Colorado. They have fashioned a sound highly praised for its unity and beauty with violinists Robin Sharp and Susan Freier, Scott Woolweaver, viola and Stephen Harrison, cello.
ATTENTION CALENDAR LISTINGS:
THE IVES QUARTET
With Guest Clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy, Performing: Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
Efram Zimbalist, String Quartet in E Minor
DATE;
Saturday, May 3, 2003, 2 pm
LOCATION:
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theatre, San Francisco
Sunday, May 4,2003, 2 pm; San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose
Friday, May 9, 2003, 8 pm; First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto
Saturday, May 10, 2003, 2 pm; Julia Morgan Theatre, 2340 College Ave., Berkeley
ALL TICKETS:
$20 general, $10 students
Tickets and info (415) 392-4400.
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