The Brentano String Quartet
6 January 2008
2:30 pm

Haydn. String Quartet Op. 76, No. 5
Bartok. Quartet No. 6
Beethoven. String Quartet Op. 127


L-R: Mark Steinberg, violin; Serena Canin, violin;
Misha Amory, viola; Nina Marie Lee, cello*

Named after Antonie Brentano, who many scholars believe to have been Beethoven’s mysterious “Immortal Beloved”, the ensemble was founded in 1992. It has since performed around the world (and here in 2000) with such luminaries as Mitsuko Uchida and Jesse Norman. The Quartet has won the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the 1995 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the 10th Annual Martin Segal Award. Gathering accolades and honors as artists-in-residence at Princeton, New York University and London’s Wigmore Hall, the Brentano participates in summer festivals internationally and throughout the U.S. “Such was their ferocity…that the instruments almost burst into flames…” The Times (London)

  *Michael Kannen will substitute for cellist Nina Maria Lee since she is expecting her first child. Mr. Kannen a founding member of the quartet performed for seven years with the group on concert stages around the world and on radio, television, and recordings.

This concert is made possible in part by a grant from the
Menotti Family Fund of the Community Foundation
of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Inc.